Right-wing French terrorists reportedly tried to return the favor by attempting to sabotage Mattei's plane.
The defendants, co-owners Robert Mattei, Leo McGlynn and Joseph Donnelly, and managers Brian F.
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Operating largely without oversight, Mattei built refineries and chemical plants, and pipelines reaching as far as Bavaria.
With gas profits at his disposal, Mattei transformed himself into a petropopulist, promising cheap energy for consumers across EUrope.
Fate finally caught up with Mattei in 1962, when his corporate jet crashed in a thunderstorm short of the Milan airport.
Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (National Hydrocarbons Agency) was founded by Enrico Mattei, a self-trained businessman who made a career of defying authority.
His crews were infamous for laying pipelines at night, without permission, and Mattei himself once boasted of having broken 8, 000 laws and ordinances.
Baritone Peter Mattei seemed to be living the agony of Amfortas, both in the fierceness of his singing and his halting, excruciating attempts to walk.
In addition, Mattei and Welsh pleaded guilty to bank fraud and McGlynn and Donnelly also pleaded guilty to bank fraud and aggravated structuring of financial transactions.
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However, the French health minister Jean-Francois Mattei has promised one thing: France will not end up with a health service modelled on either its British or American counterparts.
Mattei shook up the business by offering oil-exporting nations a bigger share of production. (He also reportedly tried to win a sweet deal by enticing the Shah of Iran with an Italian princess.) At one point British diplomats fretted that Mattei's dealmaking could "seriously prejudice the stability of the Middle East, " according to The Prize, Daniel Yergin's 1991 history of the oil business.
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