Saviano

The Camorra “sistema” described by Saviano is gut wrenchingly violent, parochial and yet terrifyingly entrepreunerial — the clan has embraced and exploited a globalised world, identifying economic opportunities early in new markets, from China to Russia, throughout Europe and even to Australia.

The Age on Gomorrah Author Roberto Saviano « Skid Roche 2008

The Camorra “sistema” described by Saviano is gut wrenchingly violent, parochial and yet terrifyingly entrepreunerial — the clan has embraced and exploited a globalised world, identifying economic opportunities early in new markets, from China to Russia, throughout Europe and even to Australia.

The Age on Gomorrah Author Roberto Saviano « Skid Roche 2008

While Saviano may have been stripped of his freedom, he retains his impeccable credibility nonetheless and he has not stopped living.

E. Nina Rothe: The Face of Courage: An Exclusive Interview With Roberto Saviano -- Part Two E. Nina Rothe 2012

The September 11th Anniversary was another eye-opening moment for Saviano because "in Italy we never talk about the hundreds of Italian-Americans who lost their lives during the attacks."

E. Nina Rothe: The Face of Courage: An Exclusive Interview With Roberto Saviano -- Part Two E. Nina Rothe 2012

It was Don Peppino's violent death, when Saviano was just 16, that inspired his mission, to uncover a world most prefer to leave buried under the tons of illicit garbage, trafficked drugs and dirty money at the heart of the Camorra.

E. Nina Rothe: The Face of Courage: An Exclusive Interview With Roberto Saviano -- Part Two E. Nina Rothe 2012

He says: For me the day I spent in Zuccotti Park meant freedom, it was the first time I dropped my alias and became Roberto Saviano again, which was important enough; but even more, OWS is a movement that gathers and celebrates diversity, where democrats, republicans, Hasidim, atheists and religious youths are all united in their belief that the economy is destroying the basic rules of democracy.

E. Nina Rothe: The Face of Courage: An Exclusive Interview With Roberto Saviano -- Part Two E. Nina Rothe 2012

For decades, the group has used its control of basic services like trash collection to keep the region in a vice grip—a parallel form of government that Mr. Saviano described in his book as being known locally as "the system."

Italian Police Nab Leading Mobster Stacy Meichtry 2011

In this age of endless updates and Internet chatter, the schools -- he was briefly at Princeton as well -- appealed to what Saviano calls the "student code of honor."

E. Nina Rothe: The Face of Courage: An Exclusive Interview With Roberto Saviano -- Part Two E. Nina Rothe 2012

Mr. Zagaria garnered notoriety in Italy after the Camorra clan he heads—the Casalesi—became the subject of the best-selling 2006 book "Gomorrah" by Roberto Saviano.

Italian Police Nab Leading Mobster Stacy Meichtry 2011

In fact, no one heard of Saviano's presence in NYC until his appearance at Zuccotti Park on Nov, 19, for a speech in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

E. Nina Rothe: The Face of Courage: An Exclusive Interview With Roberto Saviano -- Part Two E. Nina Rothe 2012