Muck makes money -- Naples garbage is mafia gold
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"For us, rubbish is gold," is how one Italian gangster explained the mafia's involvement in waste trafficking to an investigating magistrate in Naples.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Feb. 10--Garbage pick-up, Destin's Mark LeBrasseur says, is a service he pays for, not a favor from Waste Management Inc.
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Don't be fooled by froth. Bargain shopping is the path to investment riches.
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A couple of the somebodies around here are going to walk away from Flushing Meadow with a million bucks apiece in their petty cash stash. You can call them champ.
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No plans for prosecutions over salvaged treasure The scavengers who descended on East Devon's Branscombe Beach earlier this year and quickly made off with the cargo of 70,000-ton freighter MSC Napoli can keep their booty, the Receiver of Wreck has confirmed.â¦
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Even in the afterlife, some celebrities remain big-time moneymakers. Elvis Presley, Albert Einstein, Kurt Cobain, Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe continue to earn enviable incomes from the grave, according to Forbes magazine.
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Business & money: Which? calls for offenders to be named and shamed.
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By JAKE RIGDON Journal Staff Writer  Sandoval County has an illegal dumping ordinance written specifically for the area where a number of coyote carcasses were found this week.
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Organized crime may have brought in more than $2 trillion in revenue last year, about twice all the military budgets in the world combined, a report issued yesterday said. The "State of the Future" report, published by the Millennium Project of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, said organized crime entities generated income from money laundering, counterfeiting, and piracy, ...
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Piles of trash building up in Naples  have filled the air with a putrid stench and spoiled the view  for tourists, but the city's waste crisis may also be killing  its people.
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By Melanie Marquez, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb. 10--BRADENTON -- When Jay Burnell sees Macy's bags floating toward the mouth of Wares Creek, he cringes, thinking of the trash that works its way along the water from DeSoto Square mall.
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This story can make you money -- if it's true.
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AMSTERDAM -- In a city famous for pot and prostitutes, a Bay State man is seeking his fortune as a purveyor of offbeat potables.
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See that spot that just opened up? Forget about it. Some yuppie won it in an auction two hours ago, so you're out of luck. Commentary by Tony Long.
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Stinking mounds of garbage piled up on the streets of Naples Friday and officials around the country blamed organized crime and bureaucratic red tape for the city's refuse crisis.
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Tycho:  Stop whatever you're doing right now and watch this video - offered in HD for Windows Media or Quicktime.  That's Level 5's White Knight Story, and I must stress for readers that Level 5 is in no way fucking around.  That's how you sell us a Goddamn Playstation 3.  We are almost impervious to many of the brands that define Sony's hardware:  for us, Metal Gear Solid and Gran Turismo emit no will crushing pheromones.  Compare that to the White Knight clip, which is a fairly comprehensive tour of my private desires.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.