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...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 in the Midwest, shocked neighbors. Mary Moss, who owns the grain elevator across the street from Giuseppe Vitale's pizzeria...
...nearly a decade ago when the Federal Bureau of Investigation began looking into the activities of the New York Mafia "family" of Joseph Bonanno. The inquiry shed light on a faction headed by Salvatore Catalano, a Queens, N.Y., baker and entrepreneur who seemed to be doing more than selling pizza at his Al Dente pizza parlor. It gathered momentum when investigators obtained evidence that couriers for Catalano's group were transferring enormous amounts of cash through investment houses and banks in New York, Italy and Switzerland...
Even before the discovery of the pizza connection, Italian authorities had been seeking Buscetta, a native of Palermo and an ally of the Badalamenti organization, who had fled Italy in 1970 and gone to New York, where he acquired a second wife, a new daughter and new pizzerias. He also owned property in Brazil, where he was arrested in 1972 when police found 60 kilos (132 Ibs.) of heroin on his farm. Extradited to Italy, Buscetta spent eight years in various jails, living well and even giving away his daughter in a marriage held within the prison's walls...
...Detroit Tigers are the property of an Ann Arbor pizza man named Tom Monaghan, an orphan who adopted the Tigers when he was seven, in 1945, the year they beat the Cubs in seven games. Borrowing $500 some time later, he ran it into at least $53 million, which is what he bought the team for last October, aware that it was a good team but not suspecting just how good. Winning 35 of its first 40, playing 17 games on the road before losing any, Detroit dismissed the American League's East Division early and sent the Baltimore...
...challenge has electrified the entire city, and no one wants to admit it. In Ray's Pizza (the one on Third Ave.), noted French, Italian and British screenwriter Andre Bisconti scanned his New York Times...