 Woodcock worked in Potenza for about ten years where he was a colleague of the former magistrate Luigi De Magistris, now mayor of Naples, and they cooperated in anti-mafia investigations.On 16 June 2006, Woodcock asked for, and obtained from the "Giudice delle Indagini Preliminari" an arrest warrant against Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy in Varenna accusing him of participating in corruption, forgery, and organization of prostitution in relation to an investigation of the Casino of Campione d’Italia.The arrest was made after wire taps had been intercepted between Vittorio Emanuele and other suspects during a two-year investigation.