consigliere

Facey acted as consigliere to Sanchez and, after his law license was suspended in February, became a drug dealer himself, prosecutors wrote in a motion seeking to jail the attorney pending a trial.

She is Roberts’ manager and consigliere, and the pairing has paid off nicely.

The scene inside the building today was very much real life, but the dramatic stakes were something straight out of cinema: the consigliere turning on his boss, the underling exacting revenge on the master.

It is often the consigliere who brings down the boss — but never before has the crime boss in such a case been a former president of the United States.

These witnesses and tape recordings confirm that the orders came from the top - from the boss or the capo, or the consigliere of the family.