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Gaetano Badalamenti et al. The Pizza Connection Trial (in full, United States v. Badalamenti et al.) [1] was a criminal trial against the Sicilian and American mafias that took place before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City, U.S. The trial centered on a number of independently owned pizza ...
Gaetano Badalamenti (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaeˈtaːno badalaˈmenti]; 14 September 1923 – 29 April 2004) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. Don Tano Badalamenti was the capofamiglia of his hometown Cinisi, Sicily, and headed the Sicilian Mafia Commission in the 1970s. In 1987, he was sentenced in the United States to 45 years in ...
His name was Gaetano Badalamenti, and he was the former top boss of the Sicilian Mafia. ... Under the leadership of FBI New York, agents in six Bureau offices made arrests and carried out search ...
Aug 24, 2022 · Published August 24, 2022. The infamous Pizza Connection trial eventually revealed how the Sicilian Mafia imported more than $1.6 billion worth of heroin into the U.S. throughout the early 1980s by using seemingly normal pizza parlors across the country as wholesale distributors. Bettmann/Getty Images An undated photo of Gaetano Badalamenti ...
Apr 10, 1984 · U.S. Attorney W. Hunt Dumont in Newark, N.J., said the arrests made a 'significant dent' in organized crime's heroin trafficking. ... Gaetano 'Uncle' Badalamenti, 51, of Sicily, was arrested ...
Mar 3, 1987 · Six men, including a reputed captain of the Gambino Mafia family, were arrested after the second killing. ... One of the main defendants was Gaetano Badalamenti, former chief of the Sicilian Mafia ...
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Mar 3, 2020 · Gaetano Badalamenti. After nine years of trying, Pizza, one of Italy’s national dishes helps the FBI secure convictions on some slippery Mafia members. ‘The Pizza Connection’ case leads to the conviction of 18 people from various gangs. They were running an estimated $1.6 Billion drug smuggling operation.
