augusto lo torre

Just read a lil about him and supposedly when he tuned informant all of his men did to? Is this true? Carm? Ivy? How much damage did they do and were there any reprisals from other camorra clans because of this?

I don't know much about him. His family was insanely wealthy though. He was pretty violent and one of those bosses that insist nobody deals or uses in his town. He was having guys killed if he found out they were using, etc.
I really don't know why they all turned informant with him. It is true, though. I think they were just that loyal to him.
Not sure about the other clans reprisals, if any. The Camorra are set up so they're pretty independent of one another's clans.

m2w will know a lot more about him than I do.

Now thats a real anti-drugs mafia boss!respect for the dude.....

lol They're biggest business was drug trafficking. He just didn't want it in his town. A lot of camorra bosses are like this.

lol maybe i expressed my self a lil bit wrong...ofcourse their biggest biz is narcotics,all i meant was as you sad they dont want it in their ranks,streets and towns

Yea I read that.they killed a guy that was selling and stuck needled everywhere in his body

http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/camorra-boss-augusto-la-torre

Augusto la Torre



Antonio La Torre



Augusto La Torre took the place of his father and became boss of the clan which ruled in the north of the province Caserta, in the south of Lazio and along the coast of Domizio. The empire of the La Torres stretched out into The Netherlands. Augusto's brother Antonio (picture right) had set up legit businesses in Aberdeen, Scotland. (Antonio also ran some illegal businesses there.) In March 2005 Antonio was arrested in Aberdeen because of an Italian arrest warrant. He had been sentenced to 13 years in prison in Italy for racketeering. The La Torres mainly invested their ill gotten money in the United Kingdom. Because of their businesses in the UK it is alleged the La Torre clan even made a non Italian a member. Brandon Queen is the first British (Scottish) member of the Camorra. He is in prison in England and receives a monthly salary, something only members of the Clans receive.

Mondragone was the first Italian community that was disbanded because of infiltration by the Camorra. The La Torre clan had their base in Mondragone, and ruled it with an iron fist. They had a certain way of disposing of bodies which was dubbed alla mondragonese. They dump the bodies in a well, then they throw in a handgrenade. The body is blown in tiny pieces and covered in dirt, hidden forever.

Eventhough the clan was heavily involved in trafficking narcotics Augusto didn't want to see any drugs in his territory. He prohibited the sale or use of drugs. Anyone who broke those rules was killed. A junkie who, to support his habit, started dealing drugs in Mondragone was taken for a ride, killed, and injection needles were injected all over his body. When Paolo Montano, a soldier in the Clan, got addicted to cocaine one of his best friends invited him to a farmhouse. There Augusto shot him. Augusto demanded total loyalty from his men, and he got it. When Augusto became a pentito (government witness) in January 2003 all his men did the same. Augusto confessed that he committed and ordered 40 murders. The La Torre Clan's empire was worth hundreds of millions of euros.

How many men did it with him furio do you know..became informants I mean

Was he in the Gay Faction

Lol.that's the whole reason I edited my post.I set it up for that after I re read it lol

This part should've been omitted then - became informants I mean

From Gomorrah


Augusto La Torre, the psychoanalyst boss, was one of Antonio Bardellino’s favorites. He had taken his father’s place when he was young, becoming the sole leader of the Chiuovi clan, as it was called in Mondragone, which ruled in northern Caserta, southern Lazio, and along the Domitian coast. The La Torre clan had sided with Sandokan Schiavone’s enemies, but their management and business savvy, the only elements powerful enough to alter conflictual relationships among Camorra families, eventually reconciled them to the Casalesi, with whom they worked while still maintaining their autonomy. Augusto didn’t come by his name by chance. La Torre family tradition was to name the firstborn after a Roman emperor. But in this case they inverted history; instead of Augustus being followed by Tiberius, Tiberius was father to Augustus.

Augusto’s legionnaires would do anything for him. They even followed him when he turned state’s witness. In January 2003, after his wife’s arrest, the boss decided to take the big step. He accused himself and his men of forty or so homicides, gave the locations of the wells where they’d exploded people, and charged himself with dozens and dozens of extortions. A confession that focused more on military than economic activity. His most loyal men—Mario Sperlongano, Giuseppe Valente, Girolamo Rozzera, Pietro Scuttini, Salvatore Orabona, Ernesto Cornacchia, Angelo Gagliardi—soon followed him. Once in jail, silence becomes the bosses’ best weapon for holding on to authority, for formally maintaining power, even if the harsh prison routine removes them from hands-on management. But Augusto La Torre is a special case: by confessing and having all his men follow suit, there was no fear that someone would kill his family as a result of his defection. Nor did collaborating with the authorities seem to undermine the Mondragone cartel’s economic empire. His confession only helped reveal the logic of the killings and the history of power along the Caserta and Lazio coast. Like many Camorra bosses, Augusto La Torre spoke of the past. Without pentiti, the history of power could not be written. Without pentiti the truth—facts, details, and mechanisms—is only discovered ten, twenty years later, as if a man were to understand how his vital organs worked only after he is dead.