After their early exploits with the Maisto clan, they diversified and became significant landowners using state funds designed to set up small agricultural landholdings.
They made their fortune swindling the Italian government and the European Economic Community (EEC) and intimidating insurance officials, as well as local farmers who took loans from finance companies managed by the Nuvolettas.
[3] According to Mafia boss Giuseppe Di Cristina, the Nuvolettas managed a deposit and possibly a heroin refinery on Liggio's behalf.
[4] Several Camorra and Mafia clans struck a deal on the division of the shiploads of contraband cigarettes arriving in the port of Naples at a meeting in 1974 in the villa of Lorenzo Nuvoletta in Marano.
To finish this war, they had to sell their ally Valentino Gionta, this affirmation was done by Giancarlo Siani (Neapolitan young journalist) who was murdered for this.