"TOP COP" ON THE ROPES

TIME's Burke reports that Antonio Di Pietro, a legendary Italian prosecutor who has spearheaded "Clean Hands," is under investigation himself. Prosecutors in the northern city of Brescia are looking into a $75,000 loan he received from a businessman who was later implicated in the investigation. Of Di Pietro, once the most popular man in Italy, a graduate student in Rome told Burke: "He was the only person in Italy I believed in."