Correction: Argentine-President-Corruption Story - ABC News In a story Dec. 17 about a corruption scandal involving Argentina's president, The Associated Press made several errors. Jose Maria Campagnoli is a prosecutor, not an investigative judge. The statement defending President Cristina Fernandez was made by the "secretary-general of the presidency," not her personal secretary, and it was not read aloud on television. Also, the story reported that Attorney General Alejandra Gils Carbo removed him from the case; to clarify, her petition to suspend him pending impeachment was decided by a tribunal that handles indictments of officials in the ministry she oversees. Corruption scandal swirls around Argentine leader Stung by corruption allegations, Argentine leader lashes out against newspaper's 'lies' BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - New corruption allegations are swirling around the Argentine president, who ordered an official to read a blistering statement Tuesday accusing the nation's leading newspapers of lying and defaming her "in the best style of fascism." The secretary-general of the presidency, Oscar Parilli, attacked the story. "The false reports by the daily La Nacion, later repeated incessantly once again by Clarin ... try to put in doubt the legitimacy, legality and honesty of the private economic acts of the Presidents Nestor Carlos Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner," Parilli said in a statement he read on radio, which was later posted on the presidency's website. Separately, a federal prosecutor has been working for months to investigate allegations of money laundering, tax evasion and illicit enrichment involving Baez and his government contracts. When prosecutor Jose Maria Campagnoli ordered Baez to provide sworn testimony, the contractor called him abusive. Attorney General Alejandra Gils Carbo, a Fernandez appointee, then petitioned to suspend Campagnoli from the case pending impeachment for abuse of authority, and he was removed by a tribunal that handles indictments against officials in the ministry she oversees.