08/23/2021 17:10
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/23/2021 17:10
Since the scandal broke out over Fabiola Yañez's birthday party at Quinta de Olivos, in July of last year, every car that passes through the entrance gate of the presidential residence
has been scrutinized by a thousand eyes
. Last Friday, after 8 in the morning,
a high-end white van
was searched by personnel from the
Military House
stationed in the fifth. Its driver was the lawyer
Juan Pablo Fioribello
, who for more than an hour maintained a walk with Alberto Fernández. By order of the president,
the lawyer coordinates the defense of all the guests at that irregular party
, except the entrepreneur Stefanía Domínguez.
Hours after the anger of Fabiola and her partner with her apparently ex-friend transcended, the arrival of her lawyer in Olivos tried to go unnoticed, but sources from the Casa Militar confirmed it to
Clarín
.
Fioribello, on the other hand,
did not excuse himself from attending this newspaper.
The distant witnesses of the meeting agreed that both
began to walk along the park trails
, away from interference.
The meeting ratifies the absolute priority that the scandal over the irregular party maintains on the president's agenda, and
the permanent supervision
that he exercises over the judicial strategy in the file that - for now - advances in the
Ramiro González
prosecutor's office
in Comodoro Py.
In that case, Fioribello was accepted as a direct representative of the first lady and six of her friends:
Sofía Pacchi, Santiago Basavilbaso, Emmanuel López, Fernando Consagra and the sisters Florencia and Rocío Fernández Peruilh
. However, he would also coordinate the legal strategy of two other birthday attendees:
Fernando Abraham and Carolina Marafioti.
Last Tuesday, Fioribello had also notified the González prosecutor's office that among his
clients
was
Stefanía Domínguez
, but
a day later he withdrew from that defense.
What had happened?
The certainty in power that the young woman from Chubut had betrayed her friend's trust and
had offered the images of the party to at least two media
.
That Wednesday, the government's plan was to denounce Domínguez for the alleged dissemination of those images, although the idea entered a freezer after
Clarín
anticipated it on Thursday.
Lawyers, operations and suspicions
Just as the group of friends who attended Fabiola's party a year ago were shipwrecked in a sea of crossed suspicions,
the inmates in the government sowed thorns
the path that Alberto Fernández seeks to trace out of the political well in which he still finds himself .
The judicial file reflects these intrigues like a mirror
.
When the birthday photos became public, a witch hunt tried to find the leak and clot it.
As this newspaper reported, it was first learned that the hairdresser Fernando Abraham had shared some images with his friends.
But days later, during the long weekend,
the government's investigation aimed its sights against Stefanía Domínguez
, Fabiola's former partner in her theater classes.
Today both are defended by lawyers other than those called by the president.
While Abraham is represented by the former federal judge and chambermaid
Jorge "Pati" Ballestero
, Domínguez will come to court through Mauricio D'Alessandro, a man from the media for whom neither his client nor anyone else violated any norm, because he considers that all the DNUs with which Alberto Fernández imposed and renewed the quarantine
are unconstitutional.
In successive journalistic interviews, D'Alessandro has denied that his client has offered or delivered the images of the party, while suggesting that
there are "operations with the whiff of intelligence services" around the case.
True or not, your comment does not appear in isolation. In recent days, news about
alleged criminal cases of the lawyer Fioribello,
as well as sanctions by the Bar Association,
were also published in some media and portals
. But
Clarín was
able to verify that
Fabiola Yañez's defender has no criminal record of any kind
, as certified by the National Recidivism Registry. In the Buenos Aires Bar Association
there are not even complaints
against him.
Gregorio Dalbón, another lawyer who represents the president in the civil lawsuit against Patricia Bullrich for his statements about alleged bribes in the negotiations with the Pfizer laboratory to buy vaccines,
was
also
moving to join the case for the Olivos party
.
But as
Infobae
reported
, that possibility was ruled out.
Finally, another lawyer linked to Kirchnerism also set foot in the file.
This is
Alejandro Rúa
, one of the two defenders of Amado Boudou in the Ciccone case together with
Graciana Peñafort
.
Rúa represents
Carolina Marafioti,
the first lady's stylist.