Organized crime built and maintained U.S. bases despite facing U.S. anti-crime sanctions

Evidence

A similar story unfolded at the Agnano base, where the Navy employed much the same lease-construction technique and got poorly constructed facilities with “serious maintenance problems,” like a hospital with a leaky roof, sporadically operating air-conditioning, and an X-ray machine with a protective shield that fell from the ceiling. The Camorra’s Zagaria family, another target of U.S. anti–organized crime sanctions, even built NATO’s radar base in Lago Patria, outside Naples. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 368

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Home Boy and general Naples/Camorra context; also connects to how U.S. bases in Italy were complicit with local mafias built into their own infrastructure.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 368