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Badalamenti assumed leadership of the Mafia in Cinisi in 1963 after a car bomb killed Cesare Manzella during the First Mafia War. The Ciaculli Massacre on 30 June 1963 – when seven police and military officers sent to defuse a car bomb intended for mafioso Salvatore Greco were killed – changed the Mafia War into a war against the Mafia. It ...
Apr 5, 2019 · Gaetano Badalamenti. The case, dubbed “The Pizza Connection” by the news media because of the frequent use of pizza parlors as fronts for drug sales, was enormously complex and laborious ...
May 1, 2004 · Badalamenti reportedly died of a heart attack. Gaetano Badalamenti, once known as the "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, has died at the age of 80 in the US where he was serving a prison sentence. Badalamenti became notorious in the US for masterminding a crime ring which distributed heroin and cocaine through pizza parlours between 1975 ...
May 5, 2004 · Gaetano Badalamenti, 80, once described by federal authorities as the "boss of all bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, has died, a Justice Department spokesman said Friday.
May 8, 2023 · One of the most notorious, however, took place on this side of the Atlantic, in Madrid to be precise. The boss Gaetano Badalamenti, whose whereabouts were unknown, was arrested by the Spanish authorities at the request of the FBI when he was leaving an apartment in the Spanish capital where he was spending a few days with part of his family.
Jan 28, 2016 · The day before the FBI crackdown in the US, Gaetano and his son, Vito, were arrested in Madrid by Spanish police after years of intense surveillance. Catalano and Badalamenti deployed soldiers to ...
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Badalamenti) 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 parlor fronts used to distribute drugs, which had imported US$1.65 billion of heroin from Southwest Asia to the United States between 1975 and 1984.
