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good afternoon everybody david shuster here and take action is what amazing
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webster idea i know there's been just about an incredible show this one has
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these interviews the segments that we did earlier in the show
are getting a bit now watching some of the news and now they have found that
the mafia
the mafia is apparently now interested in
green energy what's that about
was rated and has a lot to do with the gym geography in the home in the cradle
of the modern cosa nostra mafia
sicily
the island
as part of italy
sicily is a very hilly area with lots of
sort of choice geography from winforms wind turbines and also solar panels
woes explosion washington post this week is that the mafia in sicily which stills
extraordinarily powerful in sicily
has gone in on this business
perhaps the greatest sort of lead into this
is they paid this scene where
uh... a sicilian entrepreneur
pitches a mob boss for capital to get in on this industry
since on conventions or
for the love of our sons renewable energy is important
it's a business we can move on
and apparently a lot of stings of own covered
that
that the mafia's had low inflation in this business that they've committed a
lot of fraud
to to sort of illicit
subsidies for from the government on times their subsidies from the time
government
for green energy
it's they're involved in tax evasion
and they're also involves an intimidating competitors
and so uh... it's uh... it's it's it's a very interesting case
a lot of our medalists are very happy please with us that they're looking at
this now making jokes they're saying
if the mafia wants in on it then surely it's a viable industry show it's
something that
we can all
sort of get behind and and see how easy it is to make money off of this is this
huge cash cow
but uh...
in fact what it
also shows i would say is that there's some danger in how we structure some of
these green energy subsidies either need to be heavy anti fraud provision that
this could actually poison the well in many cases more try to make the case of
this could survive as a sustainable
regional pins on its own
just to give you an idea of some of the the thing is
uh... some of the violations and wind farms and solar panels of eight
going on since the late nineties in italy
in two thousand seven umn quota for the washington post
orson is set fire to one of
terrorizes salvatore salvatore among todd's
all winforms causing four million dollars in damage
in two thousand nai
that's our a c crime family attempted to block one of his company's new wind
farms by claiming ownership rights land eventually prompting fourteen arrests
and forcing my father's family into two years of police protection
yet it's definitely really funny to think about the fact that
the mafia
angling it on businesses that we would normally considered the province of
hippies on the west coast
and you know sort of doing some of these intimidation mafia-style tactics that we
would normally expect in let's say loan sharking or gambling and prostitution
by at the end of the day mafia-style tactics are mafia-style bas
will it
you know be in pieces at the foot of your bet right
that's right
they they cut off the head of all win surviving left in in in the and the guys
bad
the as soon as you see it
nos will cut you
during a break right after that story great uh... great discussion of it uh...
description of it as well middleman the mafia's get into winter buys that's
terrific