At a young age, Augusto took over from his father the command of the clan, at the time dominant in the region of Alto Casertano, in lower Lazio and along the whole domitian coast.

Over the years La Torre accumulated capital with extortion, drug trafficking, control of various economic activities and contracts.

One of the great strengths of the La Torre's organization was the alliances with politics, in fact, Mondragone, the clan's stronghold, was the first municipality to be dissolved due to Camorra infiltration in the 1990s.

According to the investigations reconstruction, the massacre happened because La Torre wanted to "clean up" the Pescopagano area from African drug dealers.

In a 2017 interview, Francesco declared that he found out about his father's "job" in the newspapers when he was 7 years old and just burst into tears, he also explained how it was growing up in Mondragone when the La Torre clan was at its peak, saying that “you could feel the Camorra in the air.