They made me walk on all fours with a cable tied round my neck like a dog's lead
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Mr Eusebi, aged 38, is the founder of a company that markets the Tucker tube, a device he claims will cut energy costs and reduce pollution emissions from household boilers. Magistrates in Rimini, who on October 8 arrested Mr Eusebi and seven of his associates, say the device is wholly ineffective and Mr Eusebi's company simply a new variation on the pyramid-selling scam.
His money came, they said, not so much from the successful installation of the cost-cutting device as from the deposits paid by salesmen when taking out a Tucker franchise. In order to motivate his at times sceptical sales force, Mr Eusebi allegedly held training sessions at a country farmhouse, where doubters were subjected to a variety of psychological humiliations in a candlelit room decorated with black drapes.
The business of religion Mr Eusebi, aged 38, is the founder of a company that markets the Tucker tube, a device he claims will cut energy costs and reduce pollution emissions from household boilers. Magistrates in Rimini, who on October 8 arrested Mr Eusebi and seven of his associates, say the device is wholly ineffective and Mr Eusebi's company simply a new variation on the pyramid-selling scam.
His money came, they said, not so much from the successful installation of the cost-cutting device as from the deposits paid by salesmen when taking out a Tucker franchise. In order to motivate his at times sceptical sales force, Mr Eusebi allegedly held training sessions at a country farmhouse, where doubters were subjected to a variety of psychological humiliations in a candlelit room decorated with black drapes.