This is the American Greed Podcast presented by

C and B.C. I'm Stacy Kich.

In this episode of American Greed,

murder, mobsters, and misdeeds. A self-styled wise guy,

Domenico Dam Rabupo is making investors offers they can't refuse.

Everybody was going to win.

It could make your dreams come true.

But to pull off a $49 million real estate scam

deep in the mountains of North Carolina,

he's going to have to keep everyone in line.

I think he likes the idea that people would be a bit afraid of him. Glenville North Carolina.

An unincorporated blip on the map nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains,

population 110,

According to a 2010 census, the nearest traffic light is five miles away.

It's the kind of community that if you run out of sugar you don't run to the nearest

supermarket. It's at least 10 miles before you get there. So you tend to know your

neighbors fairly well. Towering high above Glenville is the big ridge.

Lucy Morgan's been escaping to her second home here for 25 years.

But Morgan's not your typical vacation or relaxing in the cool mountain breezes. She's a Pulitzer Prize winning

investigative journalist and one day in 2007 she stumbles upon a most unlikely tip when she walks into her local beauty shop.

The hairdresser said, Lucy, there's a mobster up there on the mountain.

And I said, well, how do you know he's a mobster?

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