Italy Seizes $1.7 Billion From Mafia's King Of Wind Power

Italy goes Cyprus on Mafia's Lord of the Wind.

Mafia-linked businessman loses 43 companies, 98 properties, 66 bank accounts, credit cards, investment funds, cars and boats.

Guardian

Investigators said Nicastri, who made his name as an alternative energy entrepreneur, had "high-level" contacts in the mafia and invested money made from criminal activities. "This is a sector in which money can easily be laundered," Arturo de Felice, head of Italy's anti-mafia agency, told SkyTG24.

Police said Nicastri had close ties to Matteo Messina Denaro, a Cosa Nostra kingpin who has been on the run since the early 1990s.

"Matteo Messina Denaro is behind many businessmen considered above suspicion who manage and take care of the assets of the real boss of Cosa Nostra," tweeted Ivan Lo Bello, vice-president of business lobby Confindustria. "The fight against money laundering is fundamental to the crushing of the mafia."

The Mafia Is Moving Into Green Energy

Comments

[It is I only]

The Mafia Is Moving Into Green Energy?? They are going to have a tough battle with all the watermelons & the mother of all organized crime, which is "greenpeace"

[john]

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/292417-white-house-engaging-lawmakers-on-energy-tax-code-issues

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/292507-lawmakers-secrecy-will-be-needed-for-tax-reform

[beijingyank]

A fortune awaits the U.S. Treasury with the confiscation of the 911 Neocon war criminal's assets.

[john]

beijingyank and It is I only I...

There will be more forthcoming...

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr1398ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr1398ih.pdf

[john]

First Wind agrees to take 1,500 MW on New Mexico-Arizona power line project

http://www.platts.com/latest-news/electric-power/portland-maine/first-wind-agrees-to-take-1500-mw-on-new-mexico-21525213