Is it safe to say that the clans in secondigliano are the power base of the Camorra?

You can say that however the Mallardos are from Giugliano north of the city and are considered to be in the orbit of the Casalesi clan and for this reason they are considered very powerful and dangerous.

Are the Casalesi more powerful than any other clan in the Camorra then? If the Mallardos are in a way under the casalesi clan. I have read that the contini family is one of the most powerful too. I thought the Nuvolettas and Zazas were the most powerful but under Bardellino and later Schiavone the casalesi were probably one of the most powerful crime families in the world. I have also been told on here thatthe clans like the Di Lauros and Licciardis are more like street gangs than mafia families like the Casalesi

Yes the Casalesi are the most powerful they are the Corleonesi of Campania.

The Camorra is for a part urban like inner city gangs in the US or Latin America, but there´s also a more powerful camorra entrepreneurs who deal with the politicians, freemasons etc..

Were the Levantes based on the Casalesi in season 4 of Gomorrah? How do the La Torres compare to the Casalesi if they both dominate Caserta are they even in the same ballpark?

The la torre clan operated in the city of Mondragone the Casalesi throughout Caserta and they have five factions so many more people. The LA torre clan is now defunct also but the heirs of the clan signed an alliance with cosa nostra.

So you could say that there are 5 different families under one umbrella when talking about the Casalesi?

Yes Schiavone, Iovine, Bidognetti, De Falco and Zagaria.

Like the 5 families of New York. I always thought they were under one boss. Was that the case when Bardellino was boss?

Yes he was the boss after him Sandokan and later Zagaria there were a few more factions like Beneduce and Venosa.

Naples, the son of the former repentant boss wounded in an ambush in Miano two weeks ago ends up in jail
Of The Editor - 30 June 2019
Naples. Two weeks ago he was seriously injured in an ambush and yesterday after returning home from the hospital he was arrested for failure to comply with the obligations of special surveillance. This is Luigi Torino, the 41-year-old son of the former penitent boss of the Sanità district, Salvatore Torino, known as o 'gassusaro, protagonist of the bloody feud with the Misso-Pirozzi. Torino was arrested at the disposal of the judges of the Review because a few months he had been caught in another municipality (he lives in Melito) in the company of others affected by violation so the legal obligations imposed on him for release from prison. On June 15, Torino was shot and wounded in an ambush consumed in Miano. He told investigators that he had been the victim of a robbery attempt. Version to which no credit was given. The investigators instead believe that the wounding is instead due to the new clash taking place in the area of ​​Miano between the veterans of the Lo Russo and the emerging clan of the Cifrone-Balzano.

Nicola Schiavone accused Michele Zagaria of treason. "When I realized that Michele Zagaria no longer honored the pacts in relation to the amount he had to pay to the common fund, I began to consider killing him".
We are in September of 2008. Schiavone jr is on the loose, Zagaria has been a fugitive for more than a decade. A man of Zagaria who came into conflict, Giacomo Capoluongo, decides to help him.
"Giacomo Capoluongo worked with me to try to find the house where Zagaria was hiding and gave me the names of the spouses who hid him". They can't find it. Zagaria will be arrested later. The spouses were actually hosting him and one of them eventually cheats on the boss.

After Bardellino was there a rift that caused them to break into factions or were they just getting too big to be under just one boss?

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...eba304e-66a3-4b95-a045-fa727331722f.html

Naples judge arrested for corruption
Ischia GIP held along with 4 other people

Corruption, Naples judge among five arrested

ROME – A Naples Tribunal judge is among five suspects arrested in Rome for crimes relating to corruption, in a police investigation that has uncovered links to the Camorra Mafia clan.

The preliminary investigation judge of Ischia, Alberto Capuano, 60, has been arrested along with Bagnoli (Naples) District Councilor Antonio di Dio, businessman Valentino Cassini and convicted felon Giuseppe Liccardo, held by investigators near the Mallardo Mafia clan base in Giugliano, north of Naples. Under house arrest was Elio Bonaiuto, a lawyer from the Naples Tribunal.

The suspects are accused of corruption in the exercise of their duties; corruption related to an action contrary to official duties; corruption in judicial proceedings; trafficking in illicit influence; making false claims; attempted extortion; and aiding and abetting.

Mr Capuano had previously been investigated by Rome’s Public Prosecutor for alleged benefits collected in exchange for ‘soft’ management of the assets of the Ragosta brothers, reported Il Mattino of Naples.

The operation involved two years of investigations and at least three months of wiretapping in the former judge’s office in Naples before moving to Ischia.

Pasquale Marigliano, a prominent member of the "Secondigliano Alliance", was arrested in Naples. A fugitive from 2011, a detention order was executed against him by the Attorney General's Office of Appeal. He had to serve a year and 11 months for a mafia association and two years for a work house. The 58-year-old tried to escape but was blocked.

How badly will the destruction of the sails in secondigliano affect business for the secondigliano alliance?

The Guardia di Finanza of Naples seized assets worth 300 million euros from an entrepreneur near some clans, operating in the real estate sector. The investigative activities as well as the statements of various collaborators of justice, have allowed us to reconstruct the operations of a complex criminal group linked to several Camorra clans (MALLARDO clan, DI LAURO clan, SCISSIONIST clan, PUCA clan, AVERSANO clan, VERDE clan and PERFETTO clan).

The organization, operating in various Italian regions - such as Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Abruzzo, Umbria, Sardinia, Lombardy - but with a prevalent base in Campania, was active in various illicit sectors, such as insurance frauds and the abusive exercise of credit , real estate investments and the fictitious title of assets, thus carrying out a systematic reuse of enormous sums of money of illicit origin.

The sister of the Zagaria brothers Beatrice Zagaria was acquitted of mafia association and sentenced to three years only for receiving money from the Casalesi clan. In first instance she was sentenced to six years.

https://theconversation.com/mafia-i...affects-everyday-life-in-the-city-120177

Mafia in Naples is still going strong – and we must not forget how it affects everyday life in the city

In recent years the Camorra developed more ties with Cosa Nostra, according to the latest DIA report.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...a7f8eed-65b6-4ea6-87e7-d5da0c0e1a32.html

Double 'stesa' shooting in Naples
Also in piazza where Genny Cesarano died

I know there was the Casalesi, Santapaoalo, ( is that right?) and Licciardi cooperation to control fruit markets.

Any other examples involving some of the well known clans?

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10 May 2010 - 08:18
Rain of arrests
Fruit, the alliance between Casalesi and Catania

The heads of the 'Casalesi', of the Mallardo clans of Giugliano, Licciardi of Secondigliano and of the Sicilian mafia families of the Santapaola-Ercolano of Catania are beheaded. The Rome Dia and the Caserta mobile team, who signed the operation coordinated by the Naples anti-Mafia district attorney, carried out dozens of arrests. The dismantled criminal organization imposed the monopoly of road transport on traders and truckers of fruit and vegetable products throughout the Central South, with the consequent rise in fruit prices.

The heads of the Camorra and Mafia organizations met in a transport company in the Caserta area to decide on strategies and alliances. During the investigation, real arsenals of weapons from Bosnia were seized.


In the operation over sixty arrests were carried out by the men of the Mobile Squad of Caserta and of the Dia of Rome, and involved men from the Casalesi clan, the 'Schiavone' group, the Sicilian mafia families of the Santapaola-Ercolano of Catania, and the clans Mallardo di Giugliano and the Licciardi of Secondigliano. These are precautionary custody orders issued by the magistrate of Naples.

"It is a great operation against the Casalesi clan but not only". Thus the Interior Ministry, Roberto Maroni, commented on the anti-mafia operation of the Dia that allowed the arrest of members of the Casalesi and Cosa Nostra clans. "With this operation - explained Maroni - an operational connection between the Casalesi and Cosa Nostra in the fruit transport sector is ascertained". "It is another major operation of the Police - he concluded - against the crime system that is hit hard every day".

The investigation into the control of fruit and vegetables by an alliance between gangs of different regions has revealed the existence of a "mafia federalism": said the national anti-mafia prosecutor, Pietro Grasso, who participated in the press conference held in the Naples prosecutor's office.

Thanks to the alliances with other clans of Campania, Calabria and Sicily, Grasso clarified, the Casalesi have obtained the monopoly of the transport of fruit and vegetables in most of Italy. The result is what the national prosecutor has called "unthinkable things": for example, to be packed, strawberries are sent from Vittoria, in Sicily, to Fondi in the lower Lazio; from there they are then distributed throughout southern Italy and Milan: the consequences on prices are enormous.

Grasso also highlighted the arrest of some Sicilian entrepreneurs including Antonio and Massimo Sfraga linked to the fugitive boss Matteo Messina Denaro and Giuseppe and Vincenzo Ercolano, related to the Santapaola family.

Thanks to the ties with them, the Casalesi managed to control the fruit and vegetable markets of Western Sicily and Eastern Sicily respectively. The investigations coordinated by prosecutors Cesare Sirignano, Francesco Curcio and Ivana Fulco also availed themselves of the collaboration of two collaborators of justice: Felice Graziano, head of the big clan of Quindici (Avellino) and of Carmine Barbieri, already "man of honor" of the Madonia family of Gela and defined by the investigators of "very high". related to the Santapaola family.



There are 68 pre-trial detention orders issued in the Naples Dda investigation into the control of fruit and vegetable transport carried out by a cartel of the Camorra, the Mafia and the 'Ndrangheta.

A decree was issued this morning for the preventive seizure of a considerable amount of assets, estimated at around 90 million euros, consisting of dozens of companies in the sector, apartments, land, bank accounts and a fleet of commercial vehicles of over 100 units. The seizures were carried out in Campania, Lazio and Sicily.

There are also the boss of Cosa Nostra Giuseppe Ercolano, 75 years old, and his son Vincenzo, aged 40, among the recipients of the precautionary custody order issued against 68 suspects in the investigation by the Naples Dda on the control of fruit and vegetable transport carried out by a cartel of the Camorra clan , of the mafia and the 'ndrangheta.

They were arrested by the Dia and the Catania mobile squad together with Nunzio Di Bella, 47, Nunzio Scibilia, 48, and Orazio Fichera, 54, of Acireale.

Giuseppe Ercolano is the brother-in-law of the life imprisoner Benedetto Santapaola and has been indicated in the past by investigators as a prominent element of Cosa nostra in Catania.

He had been arrested on 31 January 2005 as part of the 'Storm' operation and released on February 24 of the same year by the review court which annulled the order of custody in prison issued against him by the magistrate Francesco D 'Arrigo.

The Dda of the Public Prosecutor's Office had challenged him for an extortion carried out by an entrepreneur from Catania from members of the ex-cosca Pulvirenti, who would have asked the alleged boss to authorize him to act, then paying him in exchange for a percentage of the collected 'lace' .

Giuseppe Ercolano, arrested in December 1992, had returned to liberty on 22 January 2004, when he left the prison of Lanciano (Chieti) after having finished serving a sentence of 12 years in prison for a mafia association that had been imposed on him in trials called 'Alleruzzo' and 'Orsa Maggiore'.

The new Sicilian Commission had led to "co-management between Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta but also between Cosa Nostra and the Camorra, especially for the traffic of cocaine" and "On waste, for example".

Very interesting.... you think you could point me towards an article to read?

Clan Contini, the half match of counterfeit "colored" money
The test (failed) to conquer the Dutch market and the favors of the 'Ndrangheta: the back of the 20-euro tickets left "blank" by the ineligible counterfeiter
A batch of 20 thousand euros of counterfeit banknotes, a "sample" to be tested, entering it on the Dutch market. Addressee of the shipment of counterfeit money, Vincenzo Crupi, 56, of Siderno (Reggio Calabria), "intraneo", the investigators believe, to the cosca di 'Ndrangheta, Commisso.
The link between the Camorra, Contini bank, and the Calabrian mafia, is represented by Felice Barra, "an element inserted in a context of drug trafficking of vast proportions", noted the investigating judge Roberto D'Auria in the order concerning the recent operation interforces against the ' Alliance of Secondigliano (over 120 measures performed, 214 suspects).

It is, among other things, Barra who, in 2013, organized a meeting between Antonio Aieta (brother-in-law of the bosses Edoardo Contini , Francesco Mallardo and Patrizio Bosti ) and Vincenzo Crupi. The production of banknotes is entrusted to Salvatore Acanfora, known as Savio, brother-in-law of Alfredo De Feo (also known to the police to operate in the segment of the false currency).

https://www.stylo24.it/inchieste/soldi-falsi-camorra-olanda/

Genovese offspring Angelo Genovese, 45, and Michele Squillante, 35, were detained for attempted murder in Salerno.