Turncoat witness Tommaso Buscetta (in sunglasses) is led into court at the ' Maxi Trial', circa 1986. A day later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested nearly 30 people in New York City, seizing weapons and drugs. Badalamenti was formerly on the Sicilian Mafia Commission. Arrests of conspirators were coordinated in the United States, Italy, Switzerland and Spain on April 8, 1984, following the capture of Gaetano Badalamenti and his son Vito Badalamenti together with Pietro Alfano in Madrid, Spain on November 15, they were extradited to the United States. McCarthy, gathered hundreds of witnesses, wiretaps, and thousands of documents, which cost several million dollars to complete.

įor about a year, the prosecution, consisting of Richard A. The enterprise was estimated to have imported US$1.65 billion of heroin to the United States, namely the Northeast and the Midwest, between 19. The trial centered on a Mafia-run enterprise that involved processing heroin from Sicily, morphine purchased from Turkey and Southwest Asia, and cocaine from South America, for final distribution of the drugs in the United States through independently owned pizza parlor fronts as the money was laundered through several banks and brokerages in the United States and overseas. Lasting about 17 months, it was the longest trial in the judicial history of the United States. The trial lasted from September 30, 1985, to March 2, 1987, ending with 18 convictions, with sentences handed down on June 22, 1987. 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 19. Badalamenti et al.) 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 Pizza Connection Trial (in full, United States v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

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