He said someone's going to reach out to you in the next couple of months and I have a business

opportunity for you. It's up to you whether or not you choose to go with it. But you said you can make

a lot of money. You can earn a lot of money. And then that started a whole other chapter for me.

Today's guest is Germano Tomasetti. He is a Canadian criminal and mafia affiliate. He made

millions of dollars around the world laundering money for

criminal groups and pulling scams like identity theft. This guy ran scams in four continents

in seven years. He had bank accounts all over the world. He was rubbing shoulders with some of the most

ruthless Albanian and Italian criminal gangs. He lived in South America.

He was laundering money through Panamanian bank accounts.

This guy is like a James Bond novel.

It was wild.

You're going to love this episode.

He told us some stuff that was truly too crazy to show on the YouTube.

You can hear that on the bonus episode if you go over to patreon.com slash the connect show and make sure to check

out his book coming out called the Winnipeg story. Without further ado, I give you Germano

Tomasetti right here on The Connect. Sometimes we actually have that choice in life, like that one

choice that changes everything. That same day or the same week, I lost a quarter million dollars, which was all my money at the time. That's when I see lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank. It's like six inches. And then he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive. Germano Tomasetti. Tomasetti, yeah. I'm not a betting man. Yeah. But if I had to gamble, I'd say it's Italian. Correct. You're the first Canadian we've had on the show, man. That's great. That's from Winnipeg. Mm-hmm. My family is from Calgary. Oh, really? Yes. That is news to me. So we knew a lot about Winnipeg growing up. We always associated it with being a rough place.

Yep. A working class place.

Tell us about it. How was it like for you growing up?

Yeah, so it was, you know, if you want to compare it to like, you know, something in the US,

I would say something like Detroit, you don't know what I mean, just blue collar, hardworking people,

and a city that slept on a lot, you know what I mean? The whole idea of what I wanted to do with the book was put it out there because there's, there's so many interesting stories. There's very interesting people. But because it's this blue collar place that kind of gets ignored, right? Nobody would think that a Canadian would look like you. Right. You look like

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