A Camorra-family-built housing village once housed U.S. military families

Evidence

The Villaggio, which has been called “the City of Abuse,” was built by the Coppola family in the 1960s, largely to house U.S. military personnel. The family, whose most prominent members are the brothers Cristoforo and Vincenzo, hails from the Camorra stronghold of Casal di Principe. “Compared to Casal di Principe,” Saviano notes, the town of Corleone—the Sicilian community made famous by the Godfather movies—“is Disneyland.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 344

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to wider material on organized crime gaining legitimacy and reach through proximity to state/military power — echoes patterns in ‘Base Nation’ chapters on the Philippines and Okinawa.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 344