Editing Raffaele Nostrini (crime boss) (section)

== Relations with Italian Fascism ==
After the war, Raffaele financed Fascist organizers in Naples. Nostrini premises provided rooms for their meetings. Cartage operators within his network moved party personnel to political gatherings. The organization sent guards against socialist organizers. These guards also confronted striking workers employed by cooperating businesses. Salvatore became the organization's liaison with local Fascist officials.

On 24 October 1922, Raffaele and Salvatore met [[Benito Mussolini]] at the [[Grand Hotel Vesuvio]] after the Fascist gathering in Naples. Local Fascist leader [[Aurelio Padovani]] arranged the introduction. Raffaele promised trucks, drivers, guards and warehouse space for the movement. He also paid for food. Mussolini promised government transport work to businesses recommended by Raffaele if the Fascists took power. Party officials later pressured public offices to award those contracts.

Raffaele joined and financed the National Fascist Party. During the anti-crime campaign in Campania in 1926 and 1927, he publicly supported the government and gave investigators information about independent rivals. Authorities prosecuted expendable collectors and closed premises the family no longer needed. Senior members hid records naming party officials. Nostrini-backed businesses kept their contracts because they were not registered as family property. Allied owners also acquired premises taken from rivals.

By the late 1920s, public-contract fraud earned more money than the original clubs. Hauliers paid Raffaele to secure port work, and warehouse owners gave him part of their government payments. Demolition companies paid for protection and access to municipal officials. Labour agents also deducted Nostrini payments from workers' wages. Businesses inflated invoices or claimed that incomplete deliveries were finished. The owner, the Nostrini and the official protecting the fraud divided the extra money.