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- Raffaello Follieri is a serial entrepreneur, real estate developer, investor, and financial expert known for his ventures in green energy and rare metals trading. He is the founder and CEO of Follieri Energy Group, a green energy enterprise, and the founder of Pasele Ltd., a London-based company that produces and sells rare metals all over the world.
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- Former boyfriend of Isabella de Ligne-La Trémoïlle.
- Pled guilty in September 2008 to misappropriating $50 million in a Ponzi scheme. He'd claim to investors that he had an "inside man" at the Vatican who could get the Catholic Church to sell properties to him at deeply-discounted prices. He would then convert the properties into "socially-responsible" dwellings, then sell them at a profit. Despite the financial backing of Ron Burkle, he bought just three properties, and failed to "flip" any of them. Follieri may have defrauded investors of as much as $100 million. Girlfriend Anne Hathaway broke up with him just before his arrest.
- Was an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution-Loretto (Pennsylvania). Released in May 2012.
- Loretto, Pennsylvania: Turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement upon his release from the Federal Correctional Institution-Loretto, and deported to Italy.
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