This just seems to have slipped through without much notice. On Friday last week, H-D annouced that they had acquired MV Agusta.
I Google'd it, but most of the articles I found are in German.
In any case, Harley has acquired some beautiful bikes, and at the same time, a company with a worse reputation than their own for reliability ... MV owners will tell you that you've got to love your MV, because you spend so much time getting "intimiate" with it - taking it apart, waiting for some spare part, repairing something, putting it back together, ...