Germano Tomassetti

This was really stupid and really petty, but it's how it started.

So we take a blank envelope.

Get someone to go cash it on their bank account.

And then at that time you type in like whatever's supposed to be on the check, a thousand bucks, 1300 bucks or whatever.

They'd pull it, whatever it was.

We'd give them like a hundred bucks, 200 bucks.

More than happy to take that $200.

We take the rest.

We're doing like little stupid things like that throughout the year.

Every once in a while, just get a couple of bucks.

But I decide at the end of that year, I went to a couple of places.

I was in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Chile, and New York, but nothing's really happening out there.

I'm not doing any crimes.

I'm not meeting any real serious people or anything like that.

Not during that year.

Keep in mind, this is 2016 now, just for the timeline.

2017, January, I decided to go to Italy.

That's where I get introduced to a whole completely different world.

So in that trip, I tell the guy, we'll call him Luigi.

I tell Luigi, I'm going to Italy.