You couldn't make it up dept. no.113: Expertise

[fpb]

A few years back, a man called Cesare Lupo was condemned to a fair few years in jail for Mafia crimes. While in jail, he joined the external law course of the University of Catanzaro (southern Italy) and graduated in 2008 with a respectable 104 out of 110, with a thesis on "Extortion aggravated by facilitation towards Cosa Nostra." One year later he was released. And a few days ago he was arrested as being management level in a major Mafia family.

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[la-mariane.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I should laugh or cry ...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Laugh. He'd have been back in anyway, so the education has made nothing worse.

[la-mariane.livejournal.com]

Yes, but when I think of how much a uni student costs to the country, I get mad that someone used it and went to work for the Mafia.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Did I say that? If I left that impression, I was wrong. He was already Mafia; in that part of Italy, that's something you're born in. The sad thing is that he did not take the opportunity to take a different direction.