Word: lanciotti
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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After a search ranging from the River Po to the Bay of Naples, the carabinieri found their culprit right at home in Porto d'Ascoli. He was Fabbio Lanciotti, owner of a large winery and one of the defendants in the wine trial. Lanciotti had been able to make off with Exhibit A against him because the police had had the lack of foresight to store the impounded wine in Lanciotti's own wine cellar (the biggest in town). While free on bail, Lanciotti had been given permission to go on producing wine and had quietly siphoned...
When jailed, Lanciotti reportedly admitted everything, even that he had destroyed the $240,000 when he panicked as police closed in, though few believed the story. The carabinieri rounded up ten new defendants, six of them for selling the Lanciotti wine to shops and restaurants...
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