Mark,
Not sure how close you followed the Doral lawsuit proceedings, but it was revealed that Mr. Fabiani was a long time family friend of Mrs. Rossi. Evidently they went a "long way" back together.
DIdn't know that. But I would think Rossi would chose people he could trust, and it wouldn't surprise me that they link to his past. Regarding the lawsuit, I followed some of Abd-Lomax's reporting and a few other things, but not the depositions themselves. I intend to read them in the near future, but frankly I don't think there will be any revelations that would dissuade me from belief. But we'll see.
Then, there was the reports that Rossi "threw Fabiani's pc out the window and him onto the street" during the Doral fiasco! However, this turned out to be another Rossi "fabrication" as Fabiani was back at the Quark X demo.
I had heard that Rossi was not pleased with Fabiani that he revealed (perhaps to Mats Lewan in the ECW article I linked) what he did about the E-cat. Hadn't heard the story about the "Windows" PC though ...
During the entire drama leading up to the Doral lawsuit, Rossi kept indicating he had a "large" team.
I assumed that the team he was referring to back then were people from IH.
So Rossi's stories of "team" are just that ... stories. He even had to admit in legal, "under oath" depositions that he had no employees NOR was there any other companies / customers (at that time) working with him, although he was posting on JONP that he had "new" customers and partners.
So if not even Fabiani was technically an 'employee' of Leonardo, then I suppose he worked as an independent consultant/contractor for Leonardo. Not a problem.
I don't recall Rossi saying on JONP he had new customers and partners while he was in Doral under IH. Afterwards, sure. But admittedly I wasn't following things as closely then as I am now.
I DO believe there are some here that have not read the depositions because they do not want to.... they know those depositions would remove any hope they have for Rossi being the real deal.....or those depositions would show him more "evil" than the "evil by defintion" capital venture firm Industrial Heat! (At least in their minds)
I myself feel no ill will against Industrial Heat, although ultimately they are beholden to a corporate owners, the stock market and investor's demand for return. While money and ethics are not incompatible, too often they are at loggerheads. Or maybe my watching the Canadian documentary - The Corporation -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film) many years ago has skewed my perspective? If I was to chose between an inventor tinkering /sweating away in his shop, and a venture capitalist firm, well, I have a soft spot for the former, while realizing the latter is nice and rich, with needed money, but potentially ... predatory. Did the tables turn, with the lone inventor preying on the rich, perhaps unsuspecting predator? Oh the intrigue...