[1] In the 1980s, Bardellino realized that cocaine, not heroin, would become the more profitable drug and organized a trafficking operation smuggling it from Latin America to Aversa via a fish flour import-export business.

When one shipment was intercepted by the authorities, Bardellino reportedly called John Gotti and told him, "Don't worry, now we're sending twice as much another way".

After the Casalesi achieved dominance in their area following the defeat of Cutolo, Antonio Bardellino settled in Santo Domingo with his family.

Iovine murdered Bardellino in retaliation in his Brazilian villa in 1988, meeting him under the pretext of discussing their cocaine operation.

This led to a war between Schiavone's men and those loyal to another boss, Vincenzo De Falco, who was machine-gunned to death in 1991.

Mario Iovine was also killed by De Falco's hitmen with revolver bullets while in a telephone booth in Portugal.

A riot followed the next day, and the Italian government deployed 500 troops in the area to deal with the outbreak of Camorra violence.