Go back and take a good look at his "convictions" ~ they didn't stick. He got most of them dropped, and he beat all but 5 of them ~ they were "technical violations" of interest only to the Italian equivalent of the EPA and reading between all the lines only one of them wasn't reversed by the appeals court.
We have a number of choices here ~ a mob guy who penetrates the international alternative energy research community, or, a government guy who penetrates the Italian mob regarding phony oil recycling, or, an inventor who simply gets caught up in what turned out to be mob intrigue and the international alternative energy research community.
He goes with the Italian guys because they grew up listening to their grandparents so they know what he's saying ~ or a couple of people have 3 Sicilian grandparents we don't know about and count find either.
Too many "names" at the October 28 event.Only a few of then needed to be "in" on it. In particular, the mystery "NATO Colonel" would have to be part of the con. I find it interesting that in spite of the massive interest and research being done on every detail of this story, I haven't seen any reference to this person prior to his appearance at the demo. I haven't been able to dig up anything, but that doesn't really mean anything, since Rossi is probably lying about his name.
Go back and take a good look at his "convictions" ~ they didn't stick. He got most of them dropped, and he beat all but 5 of them ~ they were "technical violations" of interest only to the Italian equivalent of the EPA and reading between all the lines only one of them wasn't reversed by the appeals court.I haven't been able to find the details of his acquittals. Even if he did "get off" on the Petrol Dragon charges, there were still two other serious crimes (fake gold shipments and gutting a company as it was going into bankruptcy).
And, there is the fact that his claims of converting waste into oil were false. I wonder what other inventions he has that don't work even though he claims they do?