{"id":30245,"date":"2012-01-11T06:33:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T06:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_mafia_turns_into_italys_no-1_bank_as_crisis_bites_report\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T06:33:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T06:33:43","slug":"reuters_mafia_turns_into_italys_no-1_bank_as_crisis_bites_report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30245","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Mafia turns into &#39;Italy&#39;s No.1 bank&#39; as crisis bites: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organised crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the economic crisis, making the Mafia the country&#8217;s biggest &#8220;bank&#8221; and squeezing the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Extortionate lending by criminal groups had become a &#8220;national emergency&#8221;, said the report by anti-crime group SOS Impresa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/news-by-industry\/et-cetera\/mafia-turns-into-italys-no-1-bank-as-crisis-bites-report\/articleshow\/11441317.cms\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organised crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the economic crisis, making the Mafia the country&#8217;s biggest &#8220;bank&#8221; and squeezing the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report on Tuesday. Extortionate lending by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30245\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,460,149,200,448,151,585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-economy","category-europe","category-italy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-banking-systemsector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}