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Usage examples of "camorrista".

He truly believed that the life of a camorrista was far worse than an early death.

He was the very model of the perfect Camorrista, benign and law-abiding on the surface, brutal and treacherous below it.

By the time he was handed the last of his diplomas, Terry Fossino was a high-level Camorra drug operative, making six-figure buys and moving the cash through an intricate system that went through six different banks in five countries before settling in as clean money in a Camorrista account in Rome.

Pelligrino Morano, a Coney Island thug, was the first of the famed Camorrista dons to build his power base in New York.

Don of the Naples Camorra, the most powerful of all the Camorristas, he did not control the weather.

His information was reliable and despite his status as a junkie, he seemed to be trusted by the lower-level Camorristas who sold him drugs.

It was a bust that sent three high-ranking Camorristas to jail for double-digit sentences and put three others into early graves.

The majority of the young Camorristas bought into that way of thinking, more than content to ease their way up the criminal ladder, with no greater ambition than to one day be an old don.

She had made her way uptown, into the Bronx, mixing long walks down hot steamy streets with quick rides on air-conditioned buses, always shadowed by the two tiring Camorristas stepping on her trail.

The old woman and the young girl raced down the tenement steps, eager to reach the basement before one of the Camorristas made it to the front door.

It was not enough for him to see a group of Camorristas led away in cuffs, off to serve double-digit prison terms.