It’s official. I have now been recognized by the press as the Don Draper of Italy.
Here’s the (Google Translated) story that came out in the local paper
covering our court appearance earlier this year. Although I am sure I
came across as “disoriented” (in large part because I am generally
disoriented), you’d think that people in glass casas wouldn’t throw
pietre: G is in one sentence described as a tall blonde.
IL RESTO DEL CARLINO ASCOLI Thursday, March 17, 2011 False allegations and embezzlement They dreamed of a house in Valley defrauded two American scientists Although he had a cottage in ‘Ascoli, were found to pay twice. A pair of scientists in California and appeared in court Tuesday for the cause of forgery and embezzlement in which two injured party has just begun the process before the courts hearing Mariani. The story goes back a couple of years ago, when they decide to buy a country house near Montrepradone. By e mail for communicating with an agency, which in turn puts them agreement with a man of communication, defended by lawyer Pierluigi Acciaccaferri. He finds the cottage, then invested by the two scientists of a special prosecutor, is responsible for ‘purchase of’ property. At this point, the two Americans are beginning to pay bank transfer € 30 000 each, up to a sum of 126 000 €. But time passes and the deal if they do not do anything. Then the meeting with the two in Fiumicino, where the man claims to have returned all the cash: to prove a release signed by the Americans themselves. But this document is for the prosecution evidence of the crime of forgery: the man would not only embezzled the money sent to him by scientists, but have also forged a release. The process was rinivato in June, and it is not known if the two californani come again in Via Dino Angelini. What is known, however, and that the couple had bought the same house. And the two Amercan have monopolized for a couple of hours the attention of anyone who happened to be passing to the classroom where the two, a bit confused, tells her story with the help of an interpreter. She blonde, tall, with black hair and a suit. Him in full. They seemed to come out of the TV series “Mad Men,” and found themselves on the set of “The Band of Honest Men.”
BTW, “The Band of Honest Men” is a 1956 Italian comedy about a bungling group of counterfeiters.
