[5] One of the local dealers, Raffaele Amato, disputed the new rules, fled to Spain and organized a revolt against his former bosses.

Raffaele Amato ordered the killing of Fulvio Montanino and Claudio Salierno, loyal to Di Lauro, on 28 October 2004.

[10] On 13 December 2008, he was again sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering the murder of Gelsomina Verde, the former girlfriend of a rival Scissionisti gangster, Gennaro Notturno on 21 November 2004.

[11][12] Gelsomina was abducted, tortured and subsequently murdered by Di Lauro clan members, in an effort to make her disclose Notturno's whereabouts.

The killers then set her body on fire inside her car, in order to protect them from the "evil eye".