From the documents it would emerge that the American FBI also conducted checks on the alleged connivance, then not further confirmed, between Favoccia and the Gambino mafia family of New York.
Also in the United States, an investigation is allegedly underway regarding a villa in Formia that Bardellino's wife had purchased in the 1980s and then resold it in 1995 to an entrepreneur originally from the province of Catanzaro who later emigrated to the United States. After his death, the villa was purchased in 2000 by his brother, who in turn still lives in Massachusetts, writes 'Repubblica'.