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This article states, "With more than 40 years in a variety of business endeavors, from retail and restaurants to media and real estate, Guarino is one of the state’s most visible entrepreneurs." Gulla neglects to mention that much of Guarino's money comes from his large pornographic empire, including Capital Video, Amazing.net and Goflix.com. Court documents state that Guarino has been "associated with Natale Richichi, a capo in the Gambino family of La Cosa Nostra." Over time Guarino paid Richichi at least $1,728,000 in cash to "fend off extortion attempts and to assist Guarino with other business matters where Richichi's influence as a capo might benefit Guarino." In 1997 Guarino pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to evade taxes. He was sentenced to sixteen months in prison, eleven of which were served in a halfway house, and fined $250,000. (For details see United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Case No. 02-1564, Capital Video Corporation; Kenneth Guarino v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, November 27, 2002.) Amazing.net porn shops hurt the communities in which they operatate. In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Mayor recently revoked Amazing.net's license to operate viewing booths there. The Mayor found, "As evidenced by the testimony and exhibits in this case, the increase in the incidence of disruptive conduct in the area in which the premises are located, based on the testimony and reports of the police officers as well as the testimony and reports of a neighborhood resident, indicates that the sale of drugs, prostitution in the area around the store, together with offensive, lewd activities occurring in the various 'viewing booths', as well as patrons being assaulted while using the booths, create a nuisance that has caused a hindrance or obstruction in the exercise of the rights which are common to every person in the community... "...the testimony shows repeated and persistent evidence of illegal activity and complicity and reckless disregard of Capital Video's management over a long period of time which is sufficient to constitute a nuisance. "Moreover, viewing the evidence as a whole, there is absolutely no basis to credit any assertions or representations that Capital Video has, can or will permanently improve the conditions of its viewing booths and the open, repeated, pervasive and notoriously lewd and lascivious behavior associated with the booths... "Based on the evidence presented, this store caters to a group of people who are reckless about personal health and, by inference, the health of their sexual partners, and Capital Video's blind eye to this activity encourages promiscuity on its premises. Such conduct has been recognized in other Massachusetts case law as a cause of HIV infection..." To learn more, please see http://nopornnorthampton.org/categories/Capital%20Video%20Corporation.aspx