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Linares's father, Art Linares Sr. and Mike Silvestrini, the company's current president, although Linares does appear to have received some of the profit from the company's sale in 2017. Linares drives a Tesla. Robert Landino, CEO of former Centerplan Construction, who was fired from missing building deadlines of Dunkin' Donunts Park, was a primary investor.
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Greenskies, a solar energy company, but Linares was residing in Tampa, Florida during Greenskies early years in Connecticut and was never involved in the
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