Camorra extortion rackets extracted fixed monthly payoffs tied to base construction

Evidence

Meanwhile, six known Camorristi—including two confessed murderers—said that when they failed to win the base construction contract, they began extorting money from Mirabella’s subcontractors. (None directly implicated Mirabella or Cristoforo, who at the time was finishing three months of house arrest for an unrelated tax fraud conviction.) According to another witness, the Camorra demanded 3 percent payoffs from subcontractors, or about $10,000 per month. Stars and Stripes reported that the witness “confessed to murders and implied some were related to the construction.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 354

Categorization

• QUESTION: The scale of organized crime penetration in base construction supply chains here is striking but only partially documented — worth chasing for the chapter’s core thesis.