1.   While financiers the world over leak information, Italians have turned leaks into a pastime.

2.   While investment bankers, traders and corporate executives the world over leak information, Italians have turned such communication into a national pastime.

3.   In finding the leak information irrelevant, the judge avoided confronting the issue of whether the reporters would have to be jailed for contempt for protecting sources.

4.   The section punishes with prison sentences anyone who leaks information to the media on investigations conducted by the bureau.