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E-mail lists like "antimob" and "slashmob" have sprung up, as did a Web site warning that

Harper's Magazine Bill Wasik 2010

Pescara, the region's main port, has become a hub for illegal shipments of heroin from Albania to Southern Europe, and across Abruzzo, companies operating in the construction and trash collection industries have become "reservoirs" for laundering drug money, according to a February report to Parliament by Italy's antimob prosecutors.

Prosecutors Gird for Mob Activity After Italy Quake 2009

But all three have recently expanded northward, according to Giuseppe Pisanu, a senator who heads the Italian parliament's antimob commission.

Prosecutors Gird for Mob Activity After Italy Quake 2009

Olga Capasso, the antimob prosecutor in the Abruzzo region, of which L'Aquila is the capital, says she fears that companies backed by crime groups such as the Naples-based Camorra or the Sicilian Mafia could end up winning some of the contracts to reconstruct public buildings, schools and homes.

Prosecutors Gird for Mob Activity After Italy Quake 2009

Local muckraker Roberto Saviano, 28, is credited with bolstering the antimob momentum with his best-selling novel "Gomorra", which was published in the United States last month.

Mob-Free Shopping 2007

Indeed, lawyers and antimob activists say the nation remains reluctant to take the final step of outlawing the gangs outright, a step many here have called for.

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