Campania accounted for nearly half of Italy’s mafia-infiltration government dissolutions

Evidence

Between 1991 and 2006, out of a total of 170 judicial decrees in Italy dissolving local governments that had been infiltrated by organized crime, 75 of them—nearly half the total—were from Campania alone. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 321

Categorization

  • XREF: A concrete data point for the base-crime-economy argument that matters to this reader’s research.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 321