the piromalli clan tried to relax the strict regime for their boss. one of the plots was to deliver votes to berlusconi’s people of freedom (il popolo della libertà, pdl) coalition during the election campaign in 2008 in return for a relaxation of piromalli’s prison stature. aldo micciché, a businessman who moved to venezuela after being convicted of fraudulent bankruptcy in italy, planned to fill in 50,000 blank ballot slips for italian voters in latin america obtained from corrupt officials. micciché asked two leading members of the piromalli clan to visit marcello dell'utri – berlusconi's right-hand man – at his milan office. dell'utri was taped after the meeting complimenting micciché for introducing him to two 'good picciotti,' a sicilian expression used to describe low-level mafiosi.