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By Charles Montaldo, About.com Guide to Crime / Punishment since 2004

The Pizza Connection: Gaetano Badalamenti

Friday May 27, 2005
From 1975 to 1984, Gaetano Badalamenti (Don Tanino), a Sicilian mafia boss, was the ringleader of a $1.65 billion dollar drug smuggling operation that imported heroin from the Middle East and cocaine from South America and distributed the drugs through U.S. mid-western pizzeria store fronts.
See Also: Gangsters and Organized Crime

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