Rossi:
Rossi took the criminal route. Rossi had a plan. What Rossi did was obtain phony patents for his waste to oil machines. Rossi’s front end, and cover story was that he had this new magical way to convert waste to oil. There are no court documents or other proof that Rossi ever made any oil from waste. This in a nut shell was Rossi’s plan. Rossi would accept payment from companies at a very good discount, (Rossi charged much less than other legit companies), to dispose of dangerous and hazardous material. Then Rossi would buy places that had the ability to store amounts of material in very large quantities.
Rossi’s latest and last storage place was the purchase of the Omar refinery. Rossi would just store the material at these sites. It is possible Rossi sent some of the material south, see The Thermoelectric Scam of Andrea Rossi – Part 4 & 4b. When one site became full Rossi would just get a new storage site. Rossi had these disposal sites all over, he had many of them. Rossi never legally processed or disposed of any dangerous and hazardous material, all Rossi did was store it, or used disposal methods he thought he could get away with without any trouble.
Rossi’s plan started to fall apart when many of the large tanks holding this dangerous and hazardous material at many of the locations started to leak material. At first this attracted the attention of those people and organizations fighting pollution. But the fight quickly escalated to bring in the media, legal and permitting authorities. The rest is history. Please see The Thermoelectric Scam of Andrea Rossi – Part 5b to read court records giving a detailed timeline and the events of the Petrol Dragon – Omar fraud and scam up to late 2010.
Rossi was charged criminally and civilly in many different jurisdictions. Everyone wanted Rossi to pay for the cleanup costs. One thing that backfired on Rossi was the fact that the different jurisdictions started going after the companies that gave the material to Rossi, the jurisdictions used the civil courts to try and obtain reimbursement for the heavy cleanup costs. The authorities decided they were not going to go after the companies for criminal charges, but the jurisdictions claimed the companies were partially responsible to make sure the material was disposed of properly, and they should have to help pay for the cleanup. The civil actions were still ongoing in the Italian courts in late 2010.
To try and escape from this huge burden of $billions for the cleanup costs, Rossi filed bankruptcy. But as with most everything that Rossi has a hand in, this was also done criminally, making false statements and filing false documents with the court, etc. It was the criminal actions relating to the “aggravated fraudulent bankruptcy,” and other related crimes that caused the arrest of Rossi in Rome in May 2000.
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***Such a burden for caring
about those terrible "$billions" is duly noted. Such a TREMENDOUS care for costs incurred would lend oneself to ask why you have never addressed the HUNDREDS of $Billions of fraud incurred by the CHF crowd? Why do you spend so much effort focusing on the negatives of these noble cold fusioneers but not on the incredibly obvious long-term fraud of CHF?