Diego Barosi, 60, the head of the Garda Segnale Srl photo enforcement firm would bid on municipal automated ticketing machine contracts against shell companies run by his co-conspirators. They would ensure that Garda ended up landing the lucrative deal.
Barosi used about fifty speed cameras, but only two of them were properly calibrated and certified. When a motorist received a citation in the mail, the serial number on the ticket would be from one of the two certified units. The camera actually used was rigged to display speeds fifteen percent higher than actual. This created a significant amount of profit as the contracts gave Barosi's firm forty percent of each ticket he was able to issue.
I STILL don't get the idea behind this. A municipality gives letters of marque to a private corporation to pirate its own citizens at will. No matter how virtuously this starts out, it's like to wind up in a Sheriff of Nottingham scenario at best, or even outright highwaymen at worst; that is just human nature. You cannot give people the ability to simply take things, without the proper oversight by a non-involved third party.
The city and state has a vested interest in it for income. A crooked system just makes them more money. The only way to make this work is have them all checked, and have the money go to some legit charity. But that's not gonna happen. The state will keep it all, and spend it on pork barrel politics, and special interest funding.
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