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Over the course of the trial, Gaetano Mazzara was murdered and Pietro Alfano was seriously wounded, [21] and on March 2, 1987, two of the 22 men pleaded guilty to lesser currency violations, [7] [5] [6] while 18 of the remaining 19 defendants were convicted of running an international drug ring. [5] [6] Vito Badalamenti was the only defendant ...
Nevertheless, Badalamenti and Di Cristina decided to go on and on 8 April 1978, Francesco Madonia was murdered. In retaliation, Di Cristina was killed in May 1978 by the Corleonesi. Next was Giuseppe Calderone, who was killed on 8 September 1978. Later in 1978, Gaetano Badalamenti was expelled from the Commission, and Michele Greco replaced him ...
Gaetano Badalamenti It was a lucrative business. From January 1975 until April 1984, an estimated $1.6 billion worth of heroin was shipped to this country in the plot.
Aug 24, 2022 · Wiretaps from public phones in Queens led to Gaetano Badalamenti in Brazil. The Sicilian boss in exile oversaw the Pizza Connection, including shipments of cocaine. Catalano was his American operations boss. Technical agents traced the calls to a bank of payphones in a Rio de Janeiro post office. Agents rushed to Brazil, but Badalamenti was gone.
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.
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.
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Jan 28, 2016 · Badalamenti died in prison in 2004, and Catalano was released in 2009, after serving 29 years of his term. A Forest Hills, Queens pizzeria that—under previous management—was allegedly wrapped ...
