Carmine Pecorelli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carmine Pecorelli

Italian journalist

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1928

Place of Birth: Sessano del Molise, Molise, Italy

Date of Death: 20-Mar-1979

Profession: writer, lawyer, journalist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Carmine "Mino" Pecorelli (Italian pronunciation: ['karmine 'mi?no peko'r?lli]; September 14, 1928 – March 20, 1979) was an Italian journalist, shot dead in Rome a year after former prime minister Aldo Moro's 1978 kidnapping and subsequent killing.
He was described as a "maverick journalist with excellent secret service contacts." According to Pecorelli, Aldo Moro's kidnapping had been organized by a "lucid superpower" and was inspired by the "logic of Yalta".
Pecorelli's name was on Licio Gelli's list of Propaganda Due masonic members, discovered in 1980 by the Italian police.
In 2002, former prime minister Giulio Andreotti was sentenced, along with Mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti, to 24 years' imprisonment for Pecorelli's murder.
The sentence was thrown out by the Italian Supreme Court in 2003.