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Sitting in the grass in front of Lamont, backpack beside her, Heller prepares for a familiar ritual. For the last three years, she alternated visits to her then-fiance and now-husband Mark Alfano, a senior at Princeton. She’s got a seven-hour journey from the Square to her husband’s front door ahead of her, but she’s used...
Court-approved wiretaps turned up other names, including that of Pietro Alfano, the Sicilian-born owner of an Oregon, Ill., pizzeria whose uncle, Gaetano Badalamenti, was suspected of smuggling heroin into the U.S. from Brazil...
...case broke in April, when Spanish authorities, who had been tipped off by the Americans, arrested Alfano, Badalamenti and his son in Madrid. A day later, federal authorities in New York released an indictment charging the three and 28 others with conspiracy to violate drug laws. Within a month, the number under U.S. indictment had grown to 38. According to federal officials, the members of what was quickly dubbed the "pizza connection" had smuggled some 1,650 Ibs. of heroin, with an estimated street value of $1.65 billion, into the U.S during the past five years. The arrests, particularly those...
...typical deal, explains Giuliani, Alfano and his people would agree on a quantity of heroin to be delivered and set a price with Giuseppi Ganci, Catalano's chief lieutenant. The money would be wired from brokerage accounts at major firms to secret accounts in Switzerland, where it might remain for three or four months before a member of the Badalamenti family collected it. Meanwhile, as a sign of trust between the two groups, the heroin would be delivered. The actual smuggling is done in innumerable ways. One example: a year ago, FBI agents examined a load of ceramic tiles...
According to the FBI's 341 -page affidavit, Badalamenti and his deputies in Sicily purchased opium from Pakistan and Afghanistan, oversaw its production into heroin, then exported it to the U.S. There Bonanno-family members, including Alfano and his fellow restaurateurs in the Midwest, acted as middlemen. Finally, the money was collected by the Catalano Mob faction and laundered through prestigious New York City brokerage houses...