If you check the cover page of "El Expreso" newspaper today,you cannot ignore the main headline. The FBI, The U.S.Postal Service and the Secret Service in Miami have coordinated the arrest of a gang which specialized in the theft, forgery and cashing of U.S. government- issued retirement and other checks using our own postal service and other networks to steal thousands of checks destined to Dominicans and foreigners living on this fixed income.
The suspected leader of the ring is none other than Italo Angelini Liranzo. Since this is not in the press, let me tell you who he is.
Italo is the former owner of Ristorante Italo's, which dissappeared and was taken over by another restaurant on Avenida Paseo De Los Locutores across from Instituto Payot. The restaurant used to be a hangout for politicians and high society people who used to hang around with Italo, who lived the good life stealing from the U.S. government and laundering his money into restaurants. He owned several. But when he took a trip to Miami, thinking he could evade the FBI, they were waiting for him. He got caught and spent several months in jail there.
He always got lucky. They let them go after a few months. But he could not keep away from trouble. The restaurant fell on bad fortune due to his absence and rumors that people socializing with him were being watched. Italo was a terror in the Piantini community, throwing trash in the streets and polluting the sewers with cooking oil waste. He even devised a waste water pipe that discharged water in the building next door(Condominio Delta V) and encroached properties around. He would keep his noisy generator and smoky fumes going 24 hours a day. This guy was a menace. He also looked the part with his mafia looking style, silk, gold, Rolexes. He drove jeepetas and a white Corvette.
Thank god for U.S. authorities. They cauight up with him. The next time you see someone in the social pages and magazines and receiving public recognition from the community....watch out!!!! There are scorpions everywhere.
TW
The suspected leader of the ring is none other than Italo Angelini Liranzo. Since this is not in the press, let me tell you who he is.
Italo is the former owner of Ristorante Italo's, which dissappeared and was taken over by another restaurant on Avenida Paseo De Los Locutores across from Instituto Payot. The restaurant used to be a hangout for politicians and high society people who used to hang around with Italo, who lived the good life stealing from the U.S. government and laundering his money into restaurants. He owned several. But when he took a trip to Miami, thinking he could evade the FBI, they were waiting for him. He got caught and spent several months in jail there.
He always got lucky. They let them go after a few months. But he could not keep away from trouble. The restaurant fell on bad fortune due to his absence and rumors that people socializing with him were being watched. Italo was a terror in the Piantini community, throwing trash in the streets and polluting the sewers with cooking oil waste. He even devised a waste water pipe that discharged water in the building next door(Condominio Delta V) and encroached properties around. He would keep his noisy generator and smoky fumes going 24 hours a day. This guy was a menace. He also looked the part with his mafia looking style, silk, gold, Rolexes. He drove jeepetas and a white Corvette.
Thank god for U.S. authorities. They cauight up with him. The next time you see someone in the social pages and magazines and receiving public recognition from the community....watch out!!!! There are scorpions everywhere.
TW