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CAMORRA - 1987

In September. of 1984. the Massachusetts State Police and Drug Enforcement Admtnistration at Springfield, Masachusetts arrested Anthony "Tony" Manzi of 37 Somerset Street, Springfield,Massachusetts, for sale and possession of cocaine. Anthony Manzi was identified as a member of the CAMORRA, working· for "DON" RAFFAELE CUTOLO who is incarcerated in Italy. Italian authorities advised that MANZI was wanted in Italy for murder, narcotics and weapon violations.
In Albany·, New York, members of .the State Police Special Investigations ·Unit identify a subject, BRONO SICA, who was dealing cocaine. BRUNO SICA was seen at a local vacation resort with various members of the COLOMBO crime family. Investigationrevealed that BRUnO SICA was using the same 37 Somerset address in Springfield, Massachusetts as ANTONIO MANZI.
Investigation by State Police and United States Immigration and Naturalization Service continued until -March of 1987 when BRUNO SICA was arrested for being an Illegal Alien
and Possession of a Forged Instrument (Fraudulent Immigration Card). Photographs and fingerprints of BRONO SICA were sent to Naples, Italy where they were able to identify BRUNO SICA as ENRICO MADONNA of Cervinara Avellino. Italy.
Italian authorities indicated that MADONNA is a member of the CAMORRA and the consigliere to DON RAFFAELE CUTOLO. MADONNA was also a fugitive from Italy where he was wanted for extortion, narcotics violations and criminal association with mafia members.

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Shortly after the arrest of ENRICO MADONNA, another CAMORRA member, BIAGIO CAVA, an alleged hit, man,. was arrested in Springfield, Massachusetts, as an illegal alien. Other CAMORRA members have been arrested in Chicago, Illinois.
Italian authorities have identified ENRICO MADONNA,ANTONIO MANZI and BIAGlO CAVA as members of "The CAMORRA"., They also stated that there are two distinct groups within this Italian Organized Crime Family.
The first is the NEW ORGANIZED CAMORRA (NUOVA CAMORRA ORGANIZZATA) headed by the incarcerated RAFFAELE CUTOLO.
The second group is che NEW FAMILY (NUOVA FAMIGLIA),led by the fugitive ANTONIO BARDELLINO. which is comprised of all clans of CAMORRA, excluding CUTOLO'S clan.

The CAMORRA, operating from the Naples area, are suspected of betng involved in an extensive cocaine distribution network that furnishes cocaine for Italy and other European
countries. One major importer of cocaine into Italy is Italian fugitive ANTONIO BARDELLINO, the Boss of one of the three CAMORRA families that are closely aligned to the Sicilian Mafia.
BARDELLINO is believed to be in San Paulo, Brazil.The Italians have many associates in South America and are in an excellent position to establish cocaine smugglingroutes similar to what was uncovered during the Pizza Connection Investigation.

You would be suprised how many camorristi are still active in the USA often they are tied to LCN. Activity has been reported in Albany, Chicago, Cleveland, LA, Springfield, Boston, Fairview, New Jersey, New York, Miami, Miami Beach.

Are the camorristi still active in Cleveland?

Where is Fairview?

Fairview in New Jersey. People affiliated with the Secondigliano Alliance live there, among them Luigi Seno involved in counterfeit clothes and consumer goods.

I don't have more details on Cleveland.

In June 2019, the Italian police arrested more than 120 members of the Alliance in an anti-Camorra operation. The police also confiscated €130 million. Members of the organization were also arrested in Spain, Netherlands, South America and in the Balkans, places where they were running illicit business on behalf of the Alliance.

I find it interesting that a Camorra member under Raffaele Cutolo was seen with some Colombos. That was the same time Wild Bill Cutolo was coming up so I wonder if he had any effect on the relations between the two organizations. How closely were Wild Bill and Raffaele Cutolo related? They ever have any contact or was it more coincidental they were both connected?

I think they are not related at all. However I wonder about the Persico's I read their father the Neapolitan Carmine Persico Sr. was a member of the Luciano family during the 1930s.

In 1981 they shot dead the nephew of Vito Genovese.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/16/world/mafia-leader-killed-near-naples.html

This is great info, thanks to all.

This evidence lends to the idea, that the major Sacred Criminal Societies of Southern Italy, ie. CN, Camorra or Ndragheta have a good working relationship.

Also, outside of Canada with Rizzuto and Ndragheta and prior to CN ratification in 1931, you never seen different societies fight each other. They always seem to fight in-house, meaning Camorra vs Camorra etc.

Does anyone know of other times that either CN, Camorra or Ndragheta have had fights with each other?

About to start valachi papers!

Great book, the story but also because of the writing skills of Peter Maas.