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A girl scout has sold 17,000 boxes of cookies this year, shattering her troop’s (and her country’s) national record. However a closer look reveals the seedy truths behind the large sales figures…
The Italian Mafia is thought to have played a part in the unusually large number of sales, seemingly moving on from the days of knock-off goods and booze smuggling, the mob have turned their hands to the Girl Scout cookie trade.
The father of the Girl Scout is Fabio Gunazzenti a local mafia don, whose fierce reputation is thought to have been the reason behind the sales. A neighbour of the family (wishing to remain anonymous) was quoted as saying, “I saw lots of people leaving the house at all hours of the night with boxes of cookies.”
This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .
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