Guys, I think we should stop asking questions. It could be.... unhealthy. To our health.
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It follows logically that his origins are in Calabria, Italy.
Combining this information and the fact that he was running a 1930s mobster style numbers racket it follows that this is a 'Ndrangheta operation.
Does not follow at all. Still there's this:
I feel
quite uneasy about posting the following pieces, but it's
all publicly available, verifiable information, and perhaps of some interest.
Dennis Emmet, who worked for Vleisides murdered Benjamin Daniel Wood, who worked for Emmet.
One certainly shouldn't draw any conclusions, or make any assumptions, or implications from the following, but it is what it is...
21. Glenda Emmet, when interviewed, stated the following:
a. Emmett was the owner of Astro Computer, which operated a mail list business. This included maintaining lists and preparing the letters to be mailed out by a mail house.
b. For five or six years, her only customer was Global Search Network, which was run by her ex-husband, Dennis Emmett. Dennis Emmett is now in prison in Costa Rica for murder, but was still issuing instructions to her from prison. Before she worked for Global Search Network, she worked for World Expert Fund. That company was owned by VLEISIDES. Her ex-husband, Dennis Emmett, worked with World Expert Fund for some time in Costa Rica.
The murder doesn't seem obviously "work related", judging by the media reports. I also can't easily tell whether Emmet worked for Vleisides at the time of the killing.
Per Costa Rican media:
U.S. Citizen Linked to MurderA U.S. citizen identified only by his family name,
Emmett, 67, is held suspect of the murder of his fellow countryman , 33, whose body was found with a bullet in an eye near Turrucares, Alajuela.
It was Wood's Costa Rican girlfriend who alerted the police about the possibility of Emmett's involvement in the murder.
Wood used to work for Emmett in a house and a business property of the elder man.
http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2005/may/01/nac04.htm U.S. citizen's body was dumped Guards heard dispute and then a shot at quinta
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A loud argument about 10 p.m. Thursday was cut short by a gunshot, and investigators think that is when Benjamin Daniel Wood, a 33-year-old U.S. citizen died.
The scene was at the quinta of the two people now being held in the death, according to investigators. The argument and the shot were heard by guards outside.
The full extent of the crime did not become apparent until about 9 a.m. Friday when passers-by discovered the body of a man near a lookout point in the community of San Miguel de Turrúcares.
http://www.amcostarica.com/041905.htm This last week was not a 'good news' week for Americans in Costa Rica.An American identified only by his family name, Emmett, 67, was held suspect of the murder of his 33 year old fellow countryman Benjamin Daniel Wood, 33, whose body was found with a bullet in his eye near Turrucares, Alajuela. It was Wood's Costa Rican girlfriend who alerted the police about the possibility of Emmett's involvement in the murder.
According to investigators Wood used to work for Emmett in a house and a business property of the older man.
The murder of Wood, supposedly occurred after Emmet aged 67 had an explosive argument with his 24 year old South American girlfriend.
http://www.welovecostarica.com/public/210.cfm
Also:
Lottery scam indictment dismissed against California manBy the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Prosecutors have dismissed an indictment against Scott Henry Walther, who was indicted in 2007 stemming from his association with a Costa Rican-based lottery scam, according to documents and an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California.
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According to Ms. Lindsay, Walther's case was delayed when
his lawyer fell ill and died. With no representative to meet with, prosecutors were unsure of Walther's role, if any, in the scheme.
When the lawyer died, U.S. officials were prevented from getting Walther's story until after the indictment Ms.
Lindsay said, As a prosecutor you'd like to hear both sides based on all the evidence you can possibly get, and
with Scott Walther we felt ambivalent because the evidence against him looked really, really bad at first.Walther, who brought the dismissal to the attention of reporters, was one of six men indicted in the fraud case. Henry Walther, Scott Walther's father, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and international money laundering March 6, 2007. Henry Walther currently is serving time.
Charges against Dennis Emmett, William Cloud, James Ray Houston and Sonny Vleisides remain. Emmett is being extradited to the United States from Costa Rica, said Ms. Lindsay, and Vleisides is being extradicted from Italy. Cloud is also being extradited from Amsterdam, and Houston has not been apprehended, according to Ms. Lindsay.
http://amcostarica.com/061008.htm Emmet was perhaps squeezed out before Sonny took over the family business, after an argument with his father:
Henry Walther explained that the main people involved in the lottery were Houston, VLEISIDES, and Dennis Emmett.
The business started with Houston and Emmett. Houston was the principal behind it. Cloud is Houston's brother or halfbrother, and lives in Amsterdam.
About five years ago, Houston and Dennis Emmett got into an argument and split their businesses. Then, Houston and VLEISIDES got into an argument, and VLEISIDES took over the business.
Still, Dennis Emmet continued to work for Sonny according to Emmet's wife, per the first testimony above.