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	Camorra. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Camorra appears to have been used by the Bourbon rulers of Naples as a quasi-police network to crush opposition.
		Efforts to break the power of the Camorra, begun in the 1880s, culminated in the 1911 murder trial at which numerous members were convicted.
		The Camorra was suppressed and supplanted after Benito Mussolini’s takeover in 1922.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Camorra.html (134 words)

	Camorra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Camorra is a mafia-like criminal organization, or secret society, in the region of Campania and the city of Naples in Italy.
		The Camorra was at its height in the 19th century, where the Bourbon rulers of Naples used its members in the police, army, and civil service.
		Once Naples became a part of a united Italy in 1861, the Camorra was suppressed and lots of its members fled to the USA, where they joined the mafia.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/c/ca/camorra.html (131 words)

	CAMORRA - LoveToKnow Article on CAMORRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		There is a Spanish wOrd camorra (a quarrel), and similar societies seem to have existed in Spain long before the appearance of the Camorra in Naples.
		In or about 1830 the Camorra was carried into the city by prisoners swho had served their terms.
		It has grown upwards, and highly-placed and well-known cari%orristi have entered municipal administrations and political 1ife~ In 1900 revelations as to the Camorras power were made in the course of a libel suit, and these led to the dissolution of the Naples municipality and the appointment of a royal commissioner.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAMORRA.htm (939 words)

	Hecla Mining Company :::Properties:::
		The La Camorra mine is located approximately 180 miles southeast of Puerto Ordaz in the eastern Venezuelan State of Bolivar.
		The La Camorra mine is a high-grade underground gold mine that exploits two shear-zone hosted quartz veins known as the Main zone and the Betzy vein.
		Access to the underground workings at the La Camorra mine is via a ramp from the surface excavated at a -15% grade and connecting numerous levels.
	www.hecla-mining.com /propLaCamorra.html (3188 words)

	Dateline - Transcript - Code of the Camorra
		The Camorra was created to keep the peace, to collect debt, to impose marriage on women who had been raped, a whole host of things.
		She was returning home from a church group when one Camorra man who was being chased by another suddenly grabbed her as a shield.
		For those confronting the scourge of the Camorra at the local level the task is immense.
	news.sbs.com.au /dateline/index.php?page=transcript&dte=2005-05-25&headlineid=971 (4096 words)

	Camorra
		The Camorra has small groups led by a "caporegime", and is governed by a Grand Ruling Council.
		Camorra was city-based from the start, unlike the rural Mafia and 'Ndrangheta.
		More recently the Camorra has mad links to gangs in the former Soviet Union, and is under investigation for smuggling of Russian weapons and even nuclear material.
	da_wizeguy.tripod.com /id21.html (131 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - MARIA LICCIARDI
		The Camorra, as we know it today, started it's hold on the city in the years after the Second World War when they took control of the weapon and cigarette smuggling operations.
		All her brothers were active Camorra members one of them, her brother Gennaro "the monkey" Licciardi had become boss and ruled supreme.
		While in hiding she continued to run the Camorra and fight her wars both with rival clans as well as law enforcement.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /MariaLicciardi.html (1529 words)

	Camorra on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A delinquent suspected of belonging to the Camorra is interrogated by the anti-mafia squad.
		Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro (C) is ecorted out of the police headquarters, in Naples 16 September 2005.
		Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro (C) is escorted out of the police headquarters, in Naples 16 September 2005.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Camorra.asp (939 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Camorra
		"The Camorra is to Naples what the Mafia is to Sicily." Ironically, the New York branch of this secret criminal society did not receive much recognition in it’s own right, and would be relatively obscure were it not for the bitter rivalry with it's Sicilian counterpart.
		The Garduna was establised in Naples under the name Camorra and spread throughout the region of Campania.
		The first known Camorra group in New York appeared in Brooklyn in the early 1900’s and was instigated by Neapolitan extortionist Alessandro Vollero.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /camorra.htm (881 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Black Hand
		A war with the Camorra and a hostile take-over from "Joe the Boss" Masseria ensured that these men were not allowed to rest on their laurels.
		Meanwhile, the war with the Camorra continued, and Nick Morello was approached by "Torpedo" Tony Notaro, a member of the Camorra who claimed his organization wanted to negotiate a peace-deal.
		Camorra bosses Vollero and Morano were convicted of murder and Lauritano was convicted as an accessory.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /blackhand2.htm (1702 words)

	Camorra
		Jasmine was disconsolate at his death (but she didn't have much time to grieve--shortly afterwards she was kidnapped and gang-raped by a bunch of teenagers and is now a mental case).
		Her brother, Luigi (whom I had never met as he was in prison) was known in Neapolitan dialect as "'o re", the King, of the Forcella, the district surrounding the ancient Via Tribunale, which leads on to the Porta Capuana.
		In fact, it's tradition in the Camorra that when a man is in prison his wife takes his place, and I was told that the Giuliano women are well-known for being the real strength of that family.
	www.roguery.com /cities/naples/mystery/camorra/camorra.htm (1055 words)

	CAMORRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Camorra was at its height in the 19th century, when the Bourbon monarchy in Naples used its members in the police, army, and civil service.
		Compared to its counterparts on the mainland of Italy, sacra corona unita in Puglia and 'ndrangheta in Calabria, it is more involved in piracy.
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	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ca/Camorra.htm (144 words)

	washingtonpost.com: In Naples, a Mob Family Feud
		But predictions of the camorra's decline were premature: Naples has become a major destination for drugs and the profits they generate.
		The two dozen camorra groups operating in the area invest in legitimate businesses -- shops, banks, restaurants and construction companies -- and supplement their earnings from drugs, old-time extortion rackets, cigarette smuggling and the sale of false-label consumer goods.
		City officials say their main social strategy for combating the camorra is to provide work opportunities outside the crime network.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A6310-2005Feb7?language=printer (1284 words)

	GNOSIS - Rivista Italiana di Intelligence
		The word "Camorra", whose etymology is uncertain, has always indicated an illicit behaviour, an unfair and dishonest way of acting, an abuse of power of the stronger over the weaker.
		It is however in the mid '70s, with the appearance of drugs, that the Camorra begins to exploit its smuggling network and with the advent of Cutolo it becomes the strongest and most wide-spread criminal organisation ever seen in Italy.
		The criminal empire of the N.C.O. (New Organised Camorra) through the conscription of young delinquents form the suburbs, was founded on a capillary division of the territory and of the tasks.
	www.sisde.it /Sito/Supplemento.nsf/ServNavig/10 (4917 words)

	Camorra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Camor'ra, a well-organized secret society, once spread throughout all parts of the kingdom of Naples.
		At one time the members, known as Camorristi, were all-powerful, levying a kind of flmail on all markets, fairs and public gatherings, claiming the right to settle disputes and hiring themselves out for any criminal service, from the passing of contraband goods to assassination.
		Though originally a secret society, the Camorra did not find it necessary under the regime of the Bourbons to conceal its operations; but under the present government of united Italy, the society, if it has not quite ceased to exist, has lost almost all its power, except in the wilder parts of southern Italy.
	www.factopia.com /practical-reference/camorra.htm (123 words)

	CAMORRA - Online Information article about CAMORRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		government did not interfere with the society; indeed its members were taken into the police service and the Camorra sometimes detected crimes which baffled the'authoritied.
		In 1900 revelations as to the Camorra's power were made in the course of a See also:
		He then drew the dagger from the table and presented it to the new comrade and embraced him, as did all the others.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAL_CAR/CAMORRA.html (1186 words)

	www.myspace.com/camorramusic
		Camorra was formed in late 2003 out of the ashes of two of Portland, Oregon's biggest names: Jealous Rage (3rd place in Billboard Magazine's 1999 Best unsigned band contest) and Makeshift Messiah.
		Taggard was able to push Camorra to a new level, bringing complex bass lines and work horse ethic to the group.
		Camorra's sound went through a massive rebuilding phase as they were able to find the epic balance between Margolin's love of slower, acoustic driven tracks and pop sensibility, and Lusk and Taggard's nose to the grindstone, in your face rock 'n' roll.
	www.myspace.com /camorramusic (688 words)

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		Though the Mafia has outshone, or outshot, the Camorra over the past century, the Camorra is much older and was already a well-established and ill-reputed criminal society at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
		Until World War II the Camorra was a relatively traditional organization, performing the familiar social functions of mediation and the maintenance of a kind of harmony, by whatever violent and parasitic means.
		Although Camorra practice is to retain its business in all corners of the globe, its cardinal rule is to maintain its connection to the culture of the region, to the popular quarters of Naples.
	www.eztrip.com /dg_viewLocation_formId-78315.html (1169 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Investigative Programs - Organized Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Borsellino and five bodyguards were killed outside the apartment of Borsellino's mother when a car packed with explosives was detonated by remote control as the judge approached the front door of his mother's apartment.
		The Camorra made its fortune in reconstruction after a powerful earthquake ravaged the Campania region in 1980.
		The Camorra is considered the largest IOC group with over 100 clans and approximately 7,000 members.
	www.fbi.gov /hq/cid/orgcrime/lcn/ioc.htm (1360 words)

	Italian officials say they captured alleged top mob boss - Courttv.com - Top News
		Paolo Di Lauro, 52, is alleged to be the head of a criminal clan involved in a vicious turf war that sparked dozens of murders last year.
		Di Lauro, considered the head of one of the feuding factions within the Camorra, was arrested overnight in Secondigliano, a poor suburb of Naples which was part of his power base, Carabinieri paramilitary police said.
		The Camorra, the equivalent of the Sicilian Mafia for the Naples area, controls drug and arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and illegal betting rackets.
	www.courttv.com /news/2005/0916/mob_ap.html (389 words)

	Business Wire: Hecla Reports Record La Camorra Production, Positive Net Income, Increased Gross Profit and Cash Flow in ...
		The La Camorra mine in Venezuela contributed nearly 134,000 ounces of gold during the first nine months, and had record production in the third quarter, with 47,814 ounces produced.
		Exploration costs are expected to increase in the fourth quarter and into 2003 as the company explores for more ore in prospective areas surrounding the San Sebastian mine, at La Camorra and Block B in Venezuela and at the Hollister Block exploration/development project in Nevada.
		Total debt, related mainly to the purchase of La Camorra and the mill at San Sebastian, was down to $13.8 million at the end of the third quarter, compared to $19 million at the end of 2001.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Nov_5/ai_93971098 (1362 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Camorra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It controlled the municipal government of Naples until conditions became so notorious that the Italian government was compelled to make an investigation in 1900.
		For the most part its crimes were confined to members of the Italian race who were too terrorized to complain to American authorities, but the notoriety attendant upon several kidnapping and murder cases in New York, 1911-1912, brought about its suppression by the government.
		No trace of the historic Camorra remains, although the name still exists in Italian prisons where the older criminals exact fees known as camorra from the newcomers.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd01598.htm (210 words)

	Journeyman Pictures : short films : Code of the Camorra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		But in Naples, the foot soldiers of the Camorra have nothing but contempt for the government.
		Raffaele Durante’s daughter, Annalisa, was killed in cold blood when she was used as a human shield by a member of the Camorra.
		At the frontline in the war against the mob is police chief Claudio Domizzi.
	www.journeyman.tv /?lid=18590 (913 words)

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		Camorra was formed in 2002 out of the ashes of two Portland, Oregon heavy hitters in the music scene: Jealous Rage and Makeshift Messiah.
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	Naples trembles under Camorra turf war
		Police estimate that the Camorra will make some 4 billion euros this year from extortion alone -- more than that made by any of Italy’s other three top Mafia groups: the Cosa Nostra, the ’Ndrangheta and the United Holy Rosary.
		With joblessness at some of the highest levels in Europe, the Camorra is flush with potential recruits, says Antonio De Jesu, head of the Naples police crime prevention unit.
		Veteran Camorra watchers say the most likely solution will come from the mobsters themselves, not the police or soldiers.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /cgi-bin/news/newswire.cgi/news/reuters/2004/11/25/world/naplestremblesundercamorraturfwar.html&template=/news/templates/newswire/news_story_reuters.html (971 words)

	Italy's Mafia Mess - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
		The Camorra is a network of clans that run protection rackets, prostitution rings and, more recently, the drug trade in Naples and the region around it.
		In the last half decade, the Camorra exploited the vast port of Naples to become Italy's pre-eminent drug player, with a trade that brought in $500,000 a day to boss Paolo Di Lauro, known as "Ciruzzo the Millionaire." He went into hiding in 2002, eventually installing his 25-year-old son, Cosimo, to run the family business.
		Gelsomina Verde, a 22-year-old woman, was tortured, shot and burned in her car last month because she was believed to be the lover of a Camorra man the killers sought.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6700912/site/newsweek (1401 words)

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