Person · Camorrista / bandit
Vito Genovese
Background
Vito Genovese was an Italian-born American mafioso and the boss of the Genovese crime family of New York City. A childhood friend and criminal associate of Lucky Luciano, Genovese took part in the Castellammarese War and helped Luciano shape the Mafia’s rise as a major force in organized crime in the United States. He would later lead Luciano’s crime family, which was renamed by the FBI after Genovese in 1957.
In Naples ’44
Born near Naples, the exiled American mafia boss has taken a job as an AMG interpreter and manoeuvred himself into ‘unassailable power’ in the military government; the new mayors of the Camorra-zone towns are said to be his nominees, and the black market runs under his protection.
Appears in 2 diary entries.
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January 5 1944Lewis takes charge of security for several nearby towns, unknowingly located deep in Camorra territory, and finds poverty behind their picturesque exteriors.
American gangster who, via an AMG interpreter post, gained influence over Camorra-linked mayoral appointments in the Zona di Camorra
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April 18 1944The black market's scale is staggering — a large share of Neapolitan income derives from stolen Allied goods, tolerated by officials at high levels.
described as protecting black-market operations from within AMG, beyond the reach of the law
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