[2] The extraordinary commissioner Tommaso Blonda, appointed in her place, declared the financial distress of the Municipality of Taranto.
On 21 November 2006, the deputy prosecutor of the Court of Taranto asked for the indictment of Di Bello and of 32 other people, including former administrators and officials of the capital, accused in various ways of false ideological public deeds in relation to the draft and the approval of municipal budgets in the years from 2001 to 2005.
On 7 March 2007, Di Bello received another guarantee notice from the deputy public prosecutor Maurizio Carbone for abuse of office and fraud in the context of an investigation into the extension of municipal contracts.
On 1 March 2011, she was acquitted by the court of Taranto for the crime of abuse of office and fraud on the procurement investigation that she was accused of due to lack of evidence.
[3] Di Bello, who was married and had a daughter, died from COVID-19 on 10 April 2021. at the age of 64 in Taranto during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.