Mafia finds new way to kill as waste trade is linked to cancer
Source: Independent
Mafia finds new way to kill as waste trade is linked to cancer
Michael Day
Wednesday 01 August 2012
The potential cost of the Mafia's booming trade in illegal rubbish disposal has been highlighted by a new study which claims that women in the Naples area are almost 50 per cent more likely to develop breast cancer than their compatriots.
Italian and US researchers blamed the raised cancer risk on the disposal and incineration of toxic and industrial refuse an activity that is widespread in the Campania region surrounding the southern city.
Antonio Giordano, the director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Giulio Tarro, a senior doctor at the Cotugno hospital in Naples, led the study, which found cancer rates in some towns were up to 80 per cent above the national average.
Dr Giordano said that "30 years of Camorra (Neapolitan Mafia) and improperly disposed of toxic refuse in the zones of northern Naples and southern Caserta" were to blame for rates of breast cancer that were on average 47 per cent above the national norm.
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Octafish
(55,745 posts)Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Nothing got hauled without them skimming the fees.
Even worse was that they would stash toxic waste in rented warehouses then skip out. The owners could not trace back to actually who had rented the buildings.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)they also used to have a racket with the snowplows and snow removal
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)and shoot them a couple thousand feet underground.
Poof! All gone, like the bp oil spill.
Betty Jo
(66 posts)One of the many money makers for MItty was/is the medical waste disposal business.David Corn has covered it in Mother Jones and on TV.
Baitball Blogger
(46,574 posts)We had a waste disposal service which was linked to the mafia years ago. I always wondered, why exactly, would the US allow the mafia to own a waste disposal service? The implications of such a choice are incredible.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Javaman
(62,439 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,574 posts)I was referring to my experience in the U.S. We had a waste disposal service that was tied to the mafia. And I repeat, why on earth would the US allow that given their venture industry?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,574 posts)why isn't national security looking into the obvious odd business combination?
Javaman
(62,439 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,574 posts)Read the sentence I wrote in sequence. WE HAD a waste disposal business that was rumored to be tied to the mafia. HERE IN THE US. Thus, the conclusion, why would the US allow that given their history?