Ferdinando Imposimato (9 April 1936 – 2 January 2018) was an Italian magistrate and the honorary president of the Supreme Court of Italy.

Biography

Imposimato was born at

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, in the

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, in 1936. He graduated in law at the

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in 1959. After becoming police vice-commissar, he worked in

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and then in

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. After one year in

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as a functionary of the

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, he became a magistrate in 1964. During his career as a

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, Imposimato was in charge of the investigation for the

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's attempted assassination of

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, the assassination of banker

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, and several

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trials. In 1981 he was in charge of the trial against the

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. Two years later, his brother Franco was killed in revenge and, after endless menaces against his family from organized crime, he left his work as judge in 1986, working as

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consultant against the drugs market. He also dealt with violations of human rights in South America. In 1987, Imposimato was elected to the

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on the list of the

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, associated with the

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. In 1992 he was re-elected to the

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. He was a member of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission in three consecutive legislatures. He believed that some top members of the CIA were aware of the presence of 9/11 terrorists in the United States but did not alert "the only agency competent to counter terrorism on US soil," the FBI. He suggested that the only possibility for achieving justice is to submit the case to the Prosecutor of the

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. In January 2015, he was nominated by the

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as its candidate for the 2015 presidential election after an online survey by supporters of the movement, winning 32% of the votes. Imposimato died on 2 January 2018 in Rome, at the age of 81.

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1936 births 2018 deaths University of Naples Federico II alumni Members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy) Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) Candidates for President of Italy Italian human rights activists 20th-century Italian judges Italian prosecutors People from the Province of Caserta {{Italy-law-bio-stub