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Speaker 1: If you choose the thin one, that's great. You put

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Speaker 1: of the team. I'm Andrew Rule. This is life and crimes.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes crime entwines itself with sport or racing or rock

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Speaker 1: who got mixed up in the racing game many years ago. Now,

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Speaker 1: real name was a Vittoria Rensela, and he would have

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Speaker 2: Dealers are pretty respectable people, because cars these days are

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Speaker 1: Are far fewer dodgy car dealers these days than they

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Speaker 1: were back when Rick Loronzela got into the business, and

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Speaker 1: he was a very dodgy car dealer, but his real love,

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Speaker 2: Pretty tough, pretty brisk, pretty.

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Speaker 1: But my horse just keeps going. He said, I've got

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Speaker 1: And Renzelle says, you come to a barbecue at my

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Speaker 1: And they hop in and they drive around the corner

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Speaker 1: and they pull up. He said, we've got to open

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Speaker 1: that envelope, and he tears it open, and his wife,

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Speaker 1: who was a very respectable young woman who was well

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Speaker 1: brought up and didn't swear, she said, shit, shit, shit.

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Speaker 1: She'd never seen so much money as was in this envelope. Now,

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Speaker 1: it must have been in the thousands, like two or

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Speaker 1: three or four or five thousand dollars. It was serious money,

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Speaker 1: and the sort of money that would pay their rent

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Speaker 1: for two years, and you know, give him a deposit

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Speaker 1: on a house, whatever it might be. And so they

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Speaker 1: put the envelope in the glove box and they drifted Bendigo,

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Speaker 1: and this is how it started for Stevie Wood. He

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Speaker 1: becomes Frinzella's race stage jockey in the Ringings. Looking back

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Speaker 1: on it, the choice to take the fat envelope not

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Speaker 1: the skinny envelope was the one that derailed his life

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Speaker 1: because by making that choice, he actually handcuffed himself to

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Speaker 1: a very bad and violent man, Rickrenzla, Because later on,

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Speaker 1: when he did want to pull out, did say to Lorenzla,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can get away with doing this

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Speaker 1: for this reason, it's too risky. For that reason, Renzilla

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Speaker 1: turned nasty snarled at him and said, listen, I can't

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Speaker 1: or floating in the era. And that is when Steve

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Speaker 1: would realize that he was in too deep and it

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Speaker 1: was safer to go along with somebody like Wensella then

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Speaker 1: to go against him. Next episode, we're going to look

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Speaker 1: at how Stevie would got more deeply involved in dishonesty

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Speaker 1: and race rigging until eventually he was in so deep

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Speaker 1: he couldn't get out without going to jail. Thanks for listening.

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