{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Fears mobsters poised to profit again from earthquake reconstruction' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c40ed8eafeecae165e60' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c40ed8eafeecae165e60' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nFears mobsters poised to profit again from earthquake reconstruction\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=\"\u003e/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eFILE: L'Aquila - April 9, 20091. Wide aerial of L'Aquila 2. Wide aerial of damaged Basilica of St. Mary of Collemaggio  FILE: Rome, April 23, 2009 3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Senator Giuseppe Pisanu, President of Parliament's Anti-Mafia...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFILE: L'Aquila - April 9, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide aerial of L'Aquila \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide aerial of damaged Basilica of St. Mary of Collemaggio  \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Rome, April 23, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Senator Giuseppe Pisanu, President of Parliament's Anti-Mafia Commission:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The national anti-mafia department formed of a pool of highly qualified magistrates, and governmental authorities in charge of reconstruction, are creating filters around those who are responsible for reconstruction in order to keep out mafia business.\" \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: L'Aquila - April 28, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of damaged hospital \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up cracks in hospital's roof \u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of firefighters moving wooden boards \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of fork-lift truck \u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of forensics taking pictures \u003cbr/\u003e9. Cracks in hospital's wall\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Rome, April 23, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Piero Grasso, National anti-Mafia prosecutor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It isn't an alarm, it's only proper attention to pre-empt a phenomenon which, we know, occurred on the occasion of previous tragedies, like the earthquake in Irpinia and other situations like that. Therefore this is a way to draw attention to the fact that money allocated to citizens of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, must entirely be used for them and not to enrich the pockets of other looters.\" \u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of Grasso with escort entering Foreign Affairs Ministry  \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: L'Aquila, April 28, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of tent camp for displaced earthquake victims \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Luigi, no last name given, earthquake victim living in tent camp: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Mafia is one thing and honest people are another thing. If Prosecutor Grasso is here, if he came here from Palermo, it means that there is something that doesn't work.\" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Pan of tents \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Annamaria, no last name given, earthquake victim living in tent camp: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I hope the Mafia won't arrive here too. The only thing to think about is the rebuilding of L'Aquila.\" \u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of destroyed house \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close of bike among debris \u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of sign reading: (Italian) \"Premises confiscated by judicial authority\"  \u003cbr/\u003eEven before all the debris from Italy's latest devastating earthquake is cleaned up, investigators fear that organised crime is poised to profit from contracts worth (b) billions of dollars to rebuild schools, hospitals, courthouses and homes.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe crime clans have many connections to cement companies, debris-removal outfits and other businesses which could infiltrate the reconstruction process if authorities aren't vigilant.  \u003cbr/\u003eL'Aquila, the largest town in the central Apeninne Abruzzo region which was rocked by the 6.3-magnitude quake one month ago, on April 6, is some 150 miles (240 kilometres) north of Naples, and lies outside the southern home turf of Italy's major crime syndicates.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut investigators say Italy's mobsters are increasingly breaking out of traditional geographic boundaries, as they expand into the more affluent central and northern regions in search of ways to launder and invest hundreds of (m) millions of dollars in revenue from drug trafficking, extortion and other rackets.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"The national anti-mafia department formed of a pool of highly qualified magistrates, and governmental authorities in charge of reconstruction, are creating filters around those who are responsible for reconstruction in order to keep out mafia business,\" said Giuseppe Pisanu, a former interior minister who now heads Parliament's anti-mafia commission. \u003cbr/\u003ePisanu said appropriate countermeasures have already been settled but it's high alert against mafia infiltration in the reconstruction business in Abruzzo as he said mobsters have learned to move in political circles throughout Italy as well as enter public administration.  \u003cbr/\u003eGetting a slice of public works contracts in the underdeveloped south, where the central government has poured (b) billions of dollars over the last decades, has long been a major source of revenue for organised crime, particularly Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Camorra.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe Casalesi crime clan, a ruthless branch of the Camorra based near Caserta, is considered to be particularly well-positioned to try to get a sizable piece of the reconstruction action.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe clan, long considered by investigators to have economic interests in several parts of northern Italy, has strong ties to companies which remove earth, debris and trash.  \u003cbr/\u003eOne of the Camorra's more profitable rackets is running illegal dumpsites and transporting toxic waste and other trash for companies throughout Italy, prosecutors' investigations have indicated.  \u003cbr/\u003eOne legacy of the many probes following the Naples quake reconstruction is a law requiring bidders for public contracts to receive certification through police checks that they have no ties with organised crime. But the certificate is no guarantee mobsters won't get a slice of the contract.  \u003cbr/\u003eItaly's national anti-Mafia prosecutor, Piero Grasso said that a proper attention \"is needed to pre-empt a phenomenon which, we know, occurred on the occasion of previous tragedies, like the earthquake in Irpinia and other situations like that\".\u003cbr/\u003eThe 6.9 magnitude quake that rocked Irpinia - a region southeast of Naples - occurred in 1980 on November 23, devastating dozens of villages and killing more than 2.700 people. So far, trials that grew out of post-earth quake probes are still under way.   \u003cbr/\u003eGrasso was in L'Aquila on Friday April 24 to meet the public prosecutor, Alfredo Rossini, after a pool of four magistrates in charge of monitoring possible criminal manipulations in the reconstruction process was formed.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut with tens of thousands of quake refugees sheltered in tent cities, sleeping in seaside hotels which will soon want to rent rooms to summer vacationers or staying at relatives' homes, pressure is growing to get them settled into new or rebuilt homes.  \u003cbr/\u003eMafia magistrates are investigating whether inferior cement was used in building a hospital, a highway tunnel, a dike and even a courthouse.  \u003cbr/\u003eSo far there are no indications that organised crime was to blame for any of the tens of thousands of buildings that collapsed or were heavily damaged. \u003cbr/\u003eFirefighters clearing rubble in the Abruzzo quake had alleged that poor 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