The US Navy rented housing from Camorra money-laundering fronts

Evidence

In October 2008, the major Italian daily Corriere della Sera published the results of an investigation by Naples antimafia officials showing that the Navy has been renting multiple properties owned by Camorra money laundering fronts. For many years, for example, Navy officers had been renting a house at number 10 Via Toti in San Cipriano d’Aversa, about seven miles from the Gricignano base. The building, a two-story villa surrounded by fortresslike walls and security cameras, had been purchased in 1986 in the name of the mother of Camorra boss Antonio Iovine with what investigators believe were his criminal earnings. Iovine is listed as one of the thirty most dangerous criminals in Italy and was one of five Camorra leaders the U.S. Treasury put on a sanctions list to combat transnational criminal organizations. In other words, it was as if the Navy were renting from the mother of Al Capone. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 361

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the theme of bases corrupting and being corrupted by host economies, connecting to earlier material on prostitution, drugs, and criminal economies around bases. — connects to: The U.S. Navy has worked with the Camorra since World War II — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 323; U.S. military relationships helped the Camorra surpass the Sicilian Cosa Nostra in power. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 339; US taxpayers paid Camorra clans for housing at inflated rates (+2 more)
• SEED: Angle: official US policy sanctioned transnational crime (Treasury list) while its own Navy unknowingly or knowingly rented from those same bosses’ fronts - institutional contradiction worth an essay.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 361

Broader Connections

• U.S. military and taxpayer dollars directly supported the Camorra’s economy #expands (0.90)
• US taxpayers paid Camorra clans for housing at inflated rates #corroborates (0.85)
• NATO rent payments flowed into Camorra mafia coffers in Naples #corroborates (0.80)