United States and criminal organizations

From the province bell in New York, the step was short. After having poisoned the land and the Italian economy, the Camorra has also contaminated the United States. The U.S. administration, however, has decided not to emulate our politicians, that is not to ignore it, deny the problem and turn away.
In July 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama added to the Camorra among the four most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world, along with the Yakuza (Japanese mafia), Los Zetas (Mexican) and The Brothers Circle (Russian). President Obama has declared war on all of these organizations. A statement of intent that finds application in the sanctions that the U.S. Treasury Department imposed against the boss, Antonio Iovine, Michele Zagaria, Mario Caterino, Paolo Di mauro and Giuseppe Dell'Aquila.
"As part of its authority to impose sanctions pointing to transnational organized crime - according to a note from the Treasury - the Treasury Department has highlighted the roles of the five leaders of the Camorra, one of the biggest criminal organizations in Europe." For this reason, the U.S. institutions have decided the "freezing of assets" that people identified "have in U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits every American to transact with them."
The decision to fight the mafia through the Treasury Department should not be surprising. The neapolitan mafia, as it is known overseas, can not be relegated to the pages of the press and we can not restrict to suppress it by force. It is an organization that can poison an entire economy and, in fact, last year Obama had defined the four organizations mentioned able "to put at risk the stability of international political and economic systems," stressing that "represent an extraordinary threat national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States. "
The Americans seem to have understood the need to act urgently and systematically, perhaps even encouraged by the emergence of relations between the mafia and Al Qaeda. Reports were born on the streets of drug trafficking and that allowed the Camorra, at least to hear the story of the repentant Biagio Di Lanno, to know in advance the plans of Islamic fundamentalists about the attacks of September 11th 2001 in New York and 11 March 2004 in Madrid.
The sanctions taken by the U.S. Treasury may represent a breakthrough in the fight against organized crime, a war without quarter from which it can not be excluded that the banks, recycling dirty money mafias, enter their ill-gotten gains into the economic and financial. The goal of the U.S. Treasury Department is, therefore, "the Camorra expel the global financial system and to protect the U.S. financial system from money laundering of its proceeds criminals."