U.S. Navy personnel in Naples rent villas from Camorra crime families at inflated prices

Evidence

Beyond Iovine, investigators discovered that of some fifty villas seized from another Camorra clan, U.S. personnel were renting at least forty. Police suspected there were probably “hundreds more.” The Navy—and U.S. taxpayers—were paying the Camorristi from 2,000 to as much as 8,000 per month for the homes. (They were paying these rents to other landlords, too, at two to three times local averages.) “We know full well that many of the large villas in the Caserta area and those near military bases have dubious owners, and have often been built illegally with money originating from criminal activities,” said Sergio de Gregorio, the Italian senator responsible for relations with NATO forces. “These are princely villas with swimming pools and huge gardens surrounded by high walls.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 362

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