Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – Millions of dollars of used cooking oil is stolen each year and is threatening Buffalo Biodiesel, a company that refines the oil into green energy.
Former Erie County DA, now attorney for Lippes Mathias Law Firm, John Flynn, believes Buffalo Biodiesel and restaurants all over the Northeast are victims of organized crime.
“They realize the amount of money in this used cooking oil, so they are now hiring individuals, criminals, to go around to various parking lots and break into these VATS and suck the cooking oil out themselves into their own storage containers that they have in a truck that they pull in the parking lot,” stated Flynn in an interview with WBEN. “Once they suck all the oil out, they’ll then get in the truck and take off. Believe it or not, this is being done hundreds of times a month, all over the state, all over Erie County, and all over the country.”…