Mengolini received more than 6 million pesos (13,227 pounds) from Kicillof before attacking Milei

A few days before publicly accusing President Javier Milei of being in love with his sister and linking him to incest, both on the C5N channel and on her own station and social media, the ultra-Kirchnerist journalist Julia Mengolini received, from the government of Axel Kicillof, two official advertising contracts totaling $6,074,632, which at that time was USD 12,951 or $15,910,554 current pesos.

In early May 2023, Mengolini spread the lie on the program Duro de Domar, broadcast by C5N, that then-presidential candidate Javier Milei had a romantic relationship with his sister Karina.

Later, from the microphone of her radio station Futurock, she intensified her false statements with an even more reprehensible message. On May 5, 2023, she opened her program with the phrase: “What I understand is that, it seems to me more important at this moment, from an ethical point of view, to sacrifice myself and start saying what no one is saying.”

Later on, she insisted on the lie and confessed the objective of the savage attacks: “Milei is an unbalanced man and we have to prevent him from becoming President of the Nation. Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.”

Back then, she referred to a post of hers on social media in which she confirmed her statements from the previous night on Duro de Domar, and added: “I didn't say he had a sexual relationship with his sister, although it wouldn't be a bad idea for him to clarify it, given the rumors circulating about it.”

“I'm going to do everything within my power to prevent Milei from becoming president. If this means highlighting certain aspects of Milei's personality, I won't have any problem doing so,” Julia Mengolini concluded in her editorial.

These statements full of lies occurred 18 days after Governor Axel Kicillof significantly increased the official advertising assigned to the company Futurock Producciones SRL, as revealed by the outlet El Disenso.

In File 2140-4659-2023, it is indicated that two orders of Official Advertising were approved, No. 2036 and No. 2410, for a total of $6,074,632.

The station run by Mengolini, which has a very small number of listeners, had started 2023 with an advertising order (No. 17130) for just $33,880. In February, the amounts rose to $801,262; in March, they climbed to $2,608,760; and on April 17, they reached $6,074,632.

This growing allocation of public funds seemed to go hand in hand with the intensity of her verbal attacks against Javier Milei, which escalated until they became a true media scandal.

In light of the payments authorized by the Buenos Aires provincial government in April, Mengolini's attacks against Javier Milei are yet another example of how envelope journalists and political power operate.