According to a report from Il Fatto Quotidiano, she actually obtained her degree from Link Campus University, where her husband is the president.

[2] Together with her husband Rosario De Luca, she runs a company that provides job consulting services, with offices in Cagliari, Reggio Calabria, and Rome.

[4] Subsequently in the Conte I Cabinet, she was nominated for the presidency of the National Institute for Social Security.

According to the article, Marina Calderone, Italian Minister of Labour, graduated from the Link University and also taught there, but the main issue concerns the fact that the University would have been funded with the consultants' fund of which Maria Calderone was the president.

In general, the scandal appears to concern the possible interaction between personal interests and public funding in relation to the management of the Link University.