Andreotti also got a 24-year sentence for ordering the 1979 murder of the journalist Mino Pecorelli, although he managed to get himself acquitted in supreme court. Although I don't think the acquittal had anything to do with him being innocent or guilty, the judges likely just thought it would be too embarassing to uphold a murder conviction for somebody who has been the country's prime minister several times. But Andreotti still was a murderous scumbag, imo...The Salvo cousins from Salemi supposedly delivered his request to kill Pecorelli to Stefano Bontate and Gaetano Badalamenti who organized the hit.