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Indeed, beginning in the late 1970s "the Sicilian connection" became the chief supplier of heroin to the U.S. and Europe. Drugs have filled the Sicilian clans' coffers with billions of dollars and have been the focus of Sicilian gang wars that have killed at least 300 since 1981. The new drug Mafia has also gunned down several high-ranking Italian security officials, including General Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the prefect of Palermo who was assassinated in September 1982. Dalla Chiesa's murder resulted in a spate of new laws that led directly to the current trial. Some of those...
Heymann also proposed that to raise the world market price for heroin the U.S. should buy poppy seeds in Iran and Afghanistan. While this may have been a good idea, "you could never find a Congressman to allocate money for it," Coleman says...
...last week, he became the first "lawyer gone bad," in the parlance of law-enforcement officials, to give public testimony to the Federal Government. Appearing under heavy security--as well as a grant of immunity from prosecution--the dapper former attorney, who is serving a 15-year sentence for heroin possession, fielded questions with a sometimes nonchalant candor during a two-hour session...
Light's arrest for heroin trafficking occurred, he maintains, while he was delivering two grams of "junk" for a friend. At his 1984 trial, New York City prosecutors had contended that the dope was part of a much larger quantity that Light was dealing. Federal authorities declined to say what kind of deal Light may have cut with the Government in return for his story. When Deputy Commission Counsel Stephen Ryan asked Light, "Would (the Mafia) kill you for what you're doing today?" He replied soberly: "Without a doubt...
...cluster of cases against the Mafia that is turning Giuliani into a national figure. His office is currently prosecuting three major cases, including the "Pizza Connection" trial, in which the American and Sicilian , Mafia are accused of importing $1.6 billion worth of heroin into the U.S. The jewel in the crown is the "Commission" trial, sometimes called "The Case of Cases," which is set to begin next month. In what could be the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943, the dons of the five...