Payal Rohatgi Quotes
I have been politically victimized.
"I was politically victimised: Payal Rohatgi." Deccan Chronicle, 26 Dec. 2019.
Before and while he was prime minister, he was the owner of most of the television and other media in Italy and one of the wealthiest men in that country. He was, like many politicians the world over, a womanizer, but he had a penchant for underage girls and was found guilty of not only having sex with them but sometimes paying them. He had also been convicted of tax evasion. He felt he was persecuted because in Italy, almost all the rich businessmen cheat on their taxes—it’s a national sport, and older men have been sexually exploiting young girls for centuries. So he argues that if he were not a visible conservative politician, he never would have been prosecuted for these “crimes” which were very common in Italy. He was extremely conservative on the Italian political spectrum, and most Italians were to his left, and that is true for the judges and magistrates in Italy, so there was no way that he could interact with judges / magistrates who were not more left wing than he.
He was referring to the charge that Richard A. Clark, Chief of Counterterrorism, had politicized the 9-11 investigations. In reality, while the hearings had been apolitical, after he testified, there were massive attacks on him by the Republicans and then massive defenses by the Democrats and the hearings had indeed been politicized. It is noteworthy however that the Commission itself remained bi-partisan in its procedures and votes.
Payal Rohatgi is an Indian actress and reality TV performer who appears in Bollywood films. She was a contestant in the reality show Bigg Boss in 2008.
