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PRODUCER: My brother. Wassup?
DOPE BOY PAPI: Wassup, wassup?
Dope Boy Papi, El Jefe, the big boss.
Dominican Republic is mine.
Anything that comes and leaves outta here,
it needs to come through me.
DOPE BOY PAPI: I distribute to New York and to Miami.
I use mules, and I use boats.
PRODUCER: Do you ever feel guilty about selling drugs?
DOPE BOY PAPI: You never feel guilty about making money.
PRODUCER: Do you think drugs should be legalized?
DOPE BOY PAPI: It will never be legalized.
That's how we make money.
PRODUCER: So, you prefer it to be illegal, or?
DOPE BOY PAPI: Illegal.
MAN: Shake this square world and blast off for Kicksville.
NIXON (over PA): America's public enemy number one is drug abuse.
NANCY: Just say no.
GEORGE: The mafia is a major player in the
international drug underworld.
ANTHONY: But at the end of the day,
it's all about the dollar.
It's all about the dollar.
REAGAN (over PA): The American people want the mob and its
associates brought to justice and their power broken.
HARRIS (over PA): There's now an understanding that the
war on drugs was an abject failure.
MAN: You have to stop and ask yourself,
"How did we get here?"
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ANGELA: We were so excited every time daddy came home,
because daddy wasn't really home a lot.
I was under the impression that he worked for the CIA or the FBI,
and he was on these missions.
He wasn't tall, he was stocky.
But it wasn't fat, he was all muscle,
and he had a punch that you wouldn't believe.
He put up one of those punching bags in the basement,
and I used to watch him,
and it would just blow my mind.
How does the bag even get back to him, he's so fast?
He was very strong.
Very strong.
When he hit you, he hit you.
My name is Angela Tucceri,
and I am the daughter of Carmine Galante,
also known as "The Cigar".
(laughs)
BILL: Carmine Galante was, far and away, the biggest
heroin kingpin in the world.
He developed a whole system of smuggling tons of
heroin into the country.
CARMINE: Heroin trafficking turned out to be the most
profitable venture that the mafia went into.
ANGELA: He saw drugs as his opportunity to almost
take over the world.
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RALPH: The apprentice to the Bonanno family,
which is one of the five main crime families in New York.
He was particularly close to Joseph Bonanno,
who was the boss.
RALPH: Carmine Galante was a street thug for the mob,
and he was ruthless, which helped him rise in
the mafia organization.
He was just the kind of guy they were looking for.
ANGELA: I do have to say this, what he did might be wrong,
but he excelled in it.
RALPH: In the 50s,
Joe Bonanno sent him to Montreal to organize
the rackets there.
It's not really that well known,
but Canada became a big nurturing place for the mafia,
and for organized crime and drug trafficking.
Border controls were relaxed,
and it was easy to bring in shipments of
drugs from Europe,
particularly the French speaking parts, like Montreal.
MAN: Montreal is the largest city in Canada.
Its great seaport and industry gives the city a
transcontinental economy.
RALPH: The fact that Bonanno dispatched him to Canada
showed the trust that they had in him.
CARMINE: Galante was termed the "Foreign Minister" of Bonanno.
He headed Bonanno's operation of drug trafficking, gambling,
loan sharking, etc. and from there,
he made a lot of money for Bonanno.
ANGELA: Montreal, to me, was a very glamorous city
at the time.
It never felt anything but a vacation to me.
He had in his passport "occupation", and it said,
"restaurant owner".
So, even when I was younger,
I knew that daddy owned a restaurant in Canada.
It never dawned on me that,
"Oh, this is a great place for dad to start bringing in his drugs."
It just, you know, I didn't know any of that.
RALPH: The French Connection really grew out of World War II,
because the French would arrange shipments through Turkey,
where opium was prevalent,
to processing plants in Marseille.
From there, French organized crime brought it
into the US, through Canada.
MAN: Whose stuff is it? Is it any good?
WOMAN: It's very good.
REPORTER: The commodity of this marketplace is the narcotic drug, heroin,
packaged in small white bags.
There are $3 bags and $5 bags.
REPORTER 2: What is happening on this street corner is part
of an international multimillion dollar
a year business.
CARMINE: The United States was a pure market for heroin,
and the Mafia saw that this was the fast way of making
a lot of money.
WOMAN: Take it now. Take it down, that's all.
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CARMINE: Present at this meeting were members of the
American Mafia, including Joe Bonnano, Carmine Galante.
On the Sicilian side,
among others, there was Lucky Luciano,
Tommaso Buscetta.
They put a plan together to make a lot of money.
The way to make a lot of money was through drugs.
RALPH: That meeting established the contours of
the drug trafficking between Italy and the US,
how it would be divided up,
and laid out the groundwork of cooperation
between the Sicilian Mafia and the American Mafia.
RALPH: The Sicilians had no criminal records in America,
and they were an unknown quantity to
American law enforcement.
CARMINE: As the underboss of the Bonanno family,
Galante took it upon himself to mention to the
young mafiosi in Sicily,
"You guys can come to America.
You can form your own crews.
You'll be under my direction,
and you're gonna make a lot of money with me."
ANGELA: He knew that this was gonna be his big shot.
But they wanted him put away and they succeeded.
(door slams)
(overlapping chatter)
FIORDILINO: Carmine Galante's been in jail for nearly
a third of his life.
There's a Sicilian term that says,
"He was a dog that had no leash."
FIORDILINO: My name is Fransesco Fiordilino,
and in 2003, in federal court,
I pled out to arson, gambling,
distribution of drugs,
murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to murder,
all while being part of Bonanno crime family.
Carmine Galante's ego was bigger than all of New York,
and he wants to be the top.
He wants to be the guy.
CARMINE: While in jail, Galante thought a lot about
his greatest ambition to become a boss,
to become somebody that he wasn't.
At the time he went to jail,
he was the underboss of the Bonanno family.
But, being the way he was,
that wasn't good enough for him.
RALPH: Carmine Galante had problems from an early age,
and he had a long history of run‐ins with the law,
which ended up sending him to Sing Sing,
where his psychology was evaluated for the first time.
RALPH: And they found he had an IQ of 90,
which is below average, a psychopathic personality.
Even then, he was known to fly into unaccountable rages.
So, the warning signs were clearly there.
ANGELA: My dad told me this story once,
that his father tried to sell him.
He was so appalled.
I'm sure that that made him get in with the wrong company.
Even at the early stages, he feared nothing,
and I think that that was a big part of him
becoming who he was.
RALPH: In '62, jail offered many opportunities to keep up
with other mobsters in prison who he could consult with,
so it was not a huge impediment to
his criminal business.
But he had to bide his time, and he couldn't be thinking
anything except that it was his rightful due to
be the next boss.
CARMINE: Galante got out after 12 years of
his 20‐year sentence.
He was obviously on parole.
He had to abide by certain conditions,
such as not associating with criminal cohorts.
But he was hungry to get back into the game and
enforce his authority.
CARMINE: He wanted to come out and make more money and be the
king of the heroin trafficking activities between
Sicily and the United States.
FIORDILINO: In 1972, in New York, the French Connection,
based out of Marseille, gets broken up.
RALPH: New York in the 70s was really downtrodden.
The city was in terrible financial shape,
a lot of hopelessness in the streets.
And that, of course, fostered drug addiction.
And a lot of people felt helpless and were
driven to drugs.
MAN: Well, I shoot, maybe, ten bags a day, three,
three times a day.
REPORTER: And how much does that cost you?
MAN: Well, it varies from 20 to $25 a day.
RALPH: It was a very ready market for Galante's heroin.
FIORDILINO: Carmine started networking all over the
United States with some of his old drug dealing friends and had
a little walk and talk about what they're gonna do.
RALPH: He needs to put together a new crew of people.
The question is, how can he be assured of their loyalty,
and that they will defend him and not turn on him?
DIMATTEO: So he put a crew together from Sicily,
and they were younger guys.
My name's Frank DiMatteo.
I was part of the Mafia crime family in the 1970s.
Sicilians always thought they were better,
'cause they think they're the root of
the Sicilian Mafia,
and that they do things properly and we don't.
So, yeah, of course, they think they're better than us.
And they still do.
They did then, they still do.
To them, we're wild cowboys.
That's what they called us, "cowboys".
RALPH: One of the sources for his young Sicilian recruit was
his parent's hometown of Castellammare del Golfo.
It's very picturesque, very colorful,
stronghold of the Mafia.
Joe Bonanna came from there,
which gave Galante his sense of security.
ANGELA: My father should have been born in Sicily.
That's how Sicilian my father was.
He trusted Sicilian people more than he trusted anyone else,
because like the mob, you're all intertwined,
you're all a family.
GREENBERG: The Sicilians, and that would include my
father‐in‐law, were described as Zips.
And I don't even know what Zips mean, but I can tell you,
that has a connotation that gets my Irish up.
It's like saying the Sicilians are the Dalits of some caste system,
you know what I mean?
The word is inherently disgusting,
and I don't accept that.
So, my name is Howard Greenberg.
I'm a criminal defense attorney.
And once upon a time, I was married to the mob.
I remember meeting them at my house when I lived in
Stonebridge with my then wife.
They were guests of my father‐in‐law,
and that really was it.
One of 'em, Cesare Bonventre,
the government alleged was a bodyguard for Galante,
who stuck to him like glue.
Flashy, in terms of the jewelry, sunglasses,
and had an appearance straight out of central casting,
if you ask me.
Along the way, I also met Amato and he was
also a bodyguard.
Physically, I would describe him, sort of,
like a teenager, you know.
Salvatore Catalano was Galante's street boss,
and he had a nondescript appearance.
He, for all intents and purposes,
could have been a baker.
Never had anything much, if anything, to say.
He was as quiet as a church mouse.
So, he could've been either a baker or a church mouse.
If they were books,
the Sicilian Mafiosi would be hardcover,
first edition, first printings.
American wise guys would be cheap second‐hand versions of paperbacks.
CARMINE: They had a common mission,
bring the heroin from Sicily to the
United States at a great scale,
so we can all make money.
The Sicilians made contact with the remaining members of
the French Connection, who were still around,
and take them to Sicily and form their own labs.
And so, Galante, the people that he had here in New York,
the connections that he had in Sicily,
here was now the Sicilian Connection that replaced the
French Connection.
RALPH: But, a street boss for the Bonanno family who crossed
the Galante faction, and opposed his foray into drugs,
was an Italian Mafioso named Peter Licata.
Licata was against drugs, by all accounts.
DIMATTEO: Street bosses are a dime a dozen,
but everybody knew Carmine Galante would kill you,
if didn't go along with his game.
He wasn't a negotiator, he was a junk dealer.
That's where he makes his money.
The guy comes out of jail and you wanna tell him that you
don't think it's a good idea.
Really?
Okay. So, you gotta go.
(honking)
RALPH: Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn was a stronghold of
the Bonanno family, one of the five mafia crime families.
There was a so‐called street boss, Peter Licata.
And Licata thought drug dealing would provide a
problem for the family, and he said to his underlings,
"First deal, deal at wholesale,
then you'll deal at retail,
and then it'll end up destroying the
entire Italian community."
FIORDILINO: He was not thinking at that time
that he was ruffling some feathers by saying something
so in your face to somebody who might just act on it.
'Cause if he did, he probably wouldn't have said it.
DIMATTEO: He was giving Carmine's guys a hard time,
and that was not a smart move on his part.
FIORDILINO: One night, Licata went home,
he went to his family, guys came up there, boom.
CARMINE: Peter Licata was gunned down and murdered.
Lo and behold, who takes over as street boss of
Knickerbocker Avenue?
Salvatore Catalano.
RALPH: The message was unmistakable,
don't get in Galante's way.
CARMINE: There was a lot of upheaval in the Bonanno
family at that time.
Joe Bonanno, the former boss of the family, had retired.
And the boss of the Bonanno family, at this time,
was Philip Rastelli.
But Rusty Rastelli was in jail,
and Galante saw this vacuum.
He figured, "I'm gonna step in here.
He's out of the picture.
This is what I've really hoped for all my life,
to be the boss of the family."
At the same time,
Carlo Gambino dies, and word got out that he not only
wanted to become boss of the Bonanno family,
but he also wanted to tackle the Gambino family,
because they had the most powerful family in
New York at that time.
RALPH: The Gambinos had a strength of about 1,000
members in New York in the mid‐70s,
as opposed to the Banannos, only about 200.
When Carlo Gambino dies, there's clearly a tectonic
shift in the leadership of the Mafia in New York
at that time.
So, that must've appealed to Galante as an opportunity.
DIMATTEO: In his mind,
he wanted to be the boss of bosses.
But, guy's a psychopath in the first place.
The guy's not a normal guy.
And he wasn't following any rules,
so it was gonna get dirty.
RALPH: There were a series of attacks on Gambino family businesses,
pizza parlors and other businesses.
CARMINE: A lot of these pizzerias wound up being
burned to the ground.
Galante said, "Now I'm gonna set up pizzerias.
And from these pizzerias, I'm gonna conduct the heroin
trafficking activities."
ANGELA: My father started opening up pizza restaurants.
I remember he opened one up not far from my
house on Broadway.
Why he chose pizza places, I'll never know.
But it was nice getting free pizza all the time.
PISTONE: Using pizza parlors made a lot of sense because
they had 'em throughout the United States and they don't
draw a lot of attention from law enforcement.
My name is Joseph D. Pistone,
Special Agent of the FBI.
I was undercover in the Bonanno crime family,
and my undercover name was Donnie Brasco.
Pizza parlors was a perfect idea.
Perfect way to run your cash through,
perfect way to import the heroin.
CARMINE: The supplies from Italy were being shipped to
them in containers that contained tomato cans,
olive cans, pasta.
PISTONE: They'd have false bottoms on the olive oil cans,
and have the heroin on the bottom,
and then the olive oil on top.
PISTONE: I think it was, "We're the big dogs,
and if we wanna take over something,
we're gonna take it over.
You don't have the ability to step in and stop us from doing it."
HAROLD: Discreetly as possible.
Just kinda keep it low.
HAROLD: Our office received information,
from one of our local airlines,
that one of their station managers located in the
Caribbean was contacted by a drug trafficking organization,
and they enquired if they could put suitcases
on a flight to Atlanta.
We felt like there were some ramp agents here in Atlanta,
that were involved in a conspiracy.
We set up surveillance.
We saw a ramp worker approach the flight.
This ramp worker was not scheduled to work the flight,
nor was he scheduled to work the international concourse.
Alright, gentleman, the bag has been ripped.
They have it on top of the tug pulling the
first luggage cart.
They're putting everything else in a can.
OFFICER: That's it, right there, right?
HAROLD: Yep. That's it. He's got it.
Alright, he's pulling into the main terminal,
so everybody look alive.
OFFICER: There he is.
OFFICER (over radio): Hey, have you got any visual yet?
HAROLD: Roger.
He is putting it in the vehicle at this time.
OFFICER (over radio): So, it's been delivered, delivery's complete?
RALPH: The Mafia had no shortage of collaborators,
and they found collaborators at Alitalia Airlines.
They had a baggage handler who was in on it,
would put the suitcases aboard the flight.
On the other end, when the flight landed,
two trusted baggage handlers would remove the suitcases and
send them on their way to their destination,
and it didn't attract any attention.
Those Alitalia suitcases were worth millions and millions of dollars,
because the heroin could be compactly fit in.
So, the incentive was huge.
That's what increased the appetite of people like Galante,
that the profits to be made were extraordinary.
PISTONE: He probably was grating on Rastelli,
who was in jail,
how Galante was running the family,
and how he was keeping all the drug profits.
DIMATTEO: Galante believed he should be the boss.
And he wasn't kicking up, but it's a pyramid.
The boss, underboss, consigliere, captains.
Everybody pays up.
The big guy gets everything. That's how this thing works.
So, if you're making trillions of dollars,
you're supposed to give me my end,
but you didn't give it.
ANGELA: One time, we went to Florida,
stayed in a hotel.
He was just being watched constantly,
and all of a sudden, in the middle of the night,
pounding on the door, people on the balcony.
It was, like, it was insane.
You'd think they were taking down, you know,
an army of people, and it was just my dad.
And when they arrested him,
it was, to me, it was a joke.
PISTONE: Of course, with parole,
you're not supposed to associate with other known Mafia members.
But he did violate the parole.
REPORTER: Sir, can you tell me why you're hiding like that?
(overlapping chatter)
REPORTER: Sir, can you tell me why you're hiding like that?
PISTONE: Carmine Galante chose,
very shrewdly, a good lawyer,
who had a long history of clashing with the establishment,
going back to the Senator Joseph McCarthy days.
Very powerful lawyer, very well connected.
ROY: Everything they've said is totally incorrect and inaccurate.
REPORTER: You believe they're not treating your client fairly, then?
ROY: Pardon me?
No, I just said, it's just a total publicity stunt,
or all of you wouldn't be here, right?
REPORTER: What're you doing here today?
ROY: I'm a lawyer.
RALPH: He became a very sought‐after criminal lawyer.
Very successful in getting his clients sprung.
GREENBERG: My personal opinion of Roy Cohn was that he was sick,
demented, and in many ways,
worse than the criminals he represented,
because he fashioned the pretense of being their advocate,
when the truth be told, he was no better than they were.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Ernie, get out!
GREENBERG: He did not play by the rules.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Hey, Ernie, come on.
RALPH: 1978, Carmine Galante goes back to prison
for violating parole.
They should have held him there, clearly,
because he was consorting with criminal associates,
violating parole.
But Roy Cohn got him out of prison in record time.
PISTONE: So, he got let out early '79.
How that happened, I don't know.
RALPH: He became very cocky.
And amazingly, he goes on 60 Minutes, and his lawyer,
Roy Cohn, gets to interview him and present this simple
Italian man, who likes only to be growing tomato vines.
CARMINE: I'm going to the country.
ROY: Good, what're you gonna do when you get to the country?
CARMINE: Well, I mean, I planted peppers last week,
and now I'm gonna plant tomatoes.
RALPH: And this completely phony picture of this
mob boss is ludicrous.
ROY: You think that had any influence on the federal judge
when he held that you were right,
and the parole commission was wrong?
CARMINE: I think so, I think so.
ROY: He thinks the farmer ought to be able to seed, right?
CARMINE: I think so.
I mean, it's very well known that that's what I do.
DIMATTEO: When he made those stupid moves on 60 Minutes,
act like an old man, it don't work.
You ain't fooling nobody, man.
Forget about you talking about tomatoes,
wear an old hat, ripped sweater.
You can't do this. You can't go public.
It don't work that way. You're not supposed to that.
CARMINE: He had his own rules,
his own ways of doing things.
He was earning money, he was also skimming money.
But the Mafia operates to make money,
and in order to make money, you have to follow the rules.
If you don't abide by the rules,
there are repercussions.
RALPH: July 12th, 1979 was a very hot day in New York.
And a Cadillac was rumbling its way down the streets of
Bushwick, Brooklyn.
There was a lot of street life going on.
It was a typical day in Bushwick.
This Cadillac makes its way down Knickerbocker Avenue,
and stops outside Joe & Mary,
Italian‐American Restaurant,
run by cousins of Carmine Galante.
And Galante, who was well‐known there,
made his way to the back, and there was a backyard garden.
The bodyguards he had taken with him that day were
Cesare Bonventre and Baldo Amato.
And the mood was set for a relaxing afternoon.
(overlapping chatter)
(sizzle)
(car doors closing)
(footsteps)
(sizzle)
(overlapping chatter)
(gun cocks)
(gunshots)
(shotgun blast)
DISPATCHER (over radio): 13‐8‐61, 13‐8‐61.
BILL: I was in an unmarked police car by myself,
and I happened to be just a couple of blocks away from
Knickerbocker Avenue, when I hear this job come over.
DISPATCHER (over radio): 785, no record, NCIC.
ELLEN: Shortly before 3:00 this afternoon,
a blue Chevy pulled up here in front of
Joe & Mary's restaurant.
Three men got out, wearing ski masks, armed, shotguns,
automatic weapons.
BILL: And as I get there, I run into the backyard.
I'm the first detective there, there was maybe three cops.
I see the dead bodies.
MICHAEL: There are multiple gunshot and shotgun wounds.
REPORTER: And as a result of those wounds,
would you say the death was instantaneous on both parts?
MICHAEL: It would appear that the death was very rapid.
MAN: Okay, let's go.
Out of the way.
WOMAN: Get out of the way!
ANGELA: My mother called me,
screaming "They killed him, they killed him,
they killed him."
My mother was destroyed.
She was just destroyed, 'cause she loved him.
She never stopped loving him.
She loved this man.
It amazed me, but it was true.
It was almost surreal, the whole thing.
I don't think he thought he would ever die.
He's got that God complex.
He just didn't think anything could ever,
ever happen to him.
I was very surprised he wasn't killed much sooner,
and that's probably why I was so shocked when he died,
because now you don't expect it anymore,
'cause it didn't happen for such a long time.
Then there was the wake, which was a joke.
It was a zoo.
Reporters, bah‐bah‐bah.
RALPH: For the FBI, it was a big mystery why he was hit,
who was the killer.
And that had to be pieced together.
FIORDILINO: There was no love lost.
When he passed away, there was 40 people at his funeral.
There's a reason for that, nobody liked him.
RALPH: Carmine Galante was front page news in the
New York Times.
But the big question was, what about Bonventre and Amato?
That's the question that the police grappled with later,
and one said,
"It was raining bullets and they didn't get wet".
So, how did they avoid getting mowed down
in that scene of mayhem?
REPORTER: Good evening.
Two men walked into the Brooklyn DA's office this afternoon.
The police have been looking for them ever since
Carmine Galante was gunned down earlier this month.
Cesare Bonventre and Baldo Amato were having lunch
with Galante when the hitmen broke in and killed him.
BILL: They had nothing to help with any investigation.
They took the fifth, so they were totally useless as far as
the investigation went.
They were supposedly innocent witnesses to it.
But they didn't know I spoke Italian,
and there were some remarks being said,
"Watch what you say to this guy",
and everything, in Italian.
So, I knew they were not gonna level with me.
CARMINE: Not only did they see Cesare Bonventre and
Baldo Amato show up, but Salvatore Catalano.
That really piqued our interest,
because one of the suspects was heard coming into the
place being mentioned by the name "Sal".
CARMINE: As a result, it was suspected that Sal Catalano
also participated in the murder of Carmine Galante.
PISTONE: Galante put a lot of trust in Cesare and Baldo.
They had to be on the set up.
And they saw the opportunity, they figured they're gonna
make a bigger piece of the pie with Galante out of the way,
so they snatched it.
PISTONE: They were definitely in on the conspiracy
from the get‐go.
And also, Cesare Bonventre got up to Capo,
he became the captain in the family.
And Sal Catalano became the boss of Sicilians.
DIMATTEO: All three of them were 100% offered a better deal.
I think it was like an offer you couldn't refuse.
RALPH: There were many clues.
One was that the boss of the Bonanno family,
Phil Rusty Rastelli,
got an excessive number of visits in prison before the hit,
and that was pretty telling.
BILL: It was surveillance of the Ravenite Social Club.
And when a call came over about Galante being killed,
they started filming everybody coming and going.
PISTONE: The Ravenite was a Gambino social club.
And after the hit went down, a guy by the name of
Bruno Indelicato shows up, and he's seen talking with
the underboss of the Gambinos at the time.
RALPH: Bruno Indelicato seemed to be getting quite
some attention outside the club.
And later, they put it together that, perhaps,
he had something to do with the killing of Galante and
was being congratulated.
PISTONE: So, right there, it shows you that the Gambinos
sanctioned it, and if the Gambinos sanctioned it,
all the other bosses sanctioned it.
CARMINE: The authority to assassinate Carmine Galante
had to be authorized by the so‐called "Commission"
of the Mafia.
RALPH: It had to have been some kind of high‐level decision,
because bosses, or underbosses, don't get whacked on a whim
by some lower soldier, or capo.
It's a Commission decision usually.
CARMINE: He had done things against the Mafia rule.
They had to make an example of Galante.
It was a daylight assassination to send a message that,
"We are the ones who rule.
The rules are not to be broken".
BILL: Once I started the investigation of the death of Galante,
I kept winding up in a pizzeria after pizzeria.
The Mafia at that time was considered involved in
bookmaking and possession of stolen property,
and all that stuff.
But I don't think anybody really knew how involved they
were in the importing of drugs into the country.
RALPH: The killing of Galante was the key to opening up this
vast drug conspiracy that became known as
the Pizza Connection.
It became unimaginably important in shifting the
focus of the FBI from individual cases to a broader
perspective of prosecuting drug organizations.
It was really the linchpin to a vast revolution in
law enforcement, not only in the United States,
but in Italy and around the world,
in terms of awareness of the international drug conspiracy.
ANGELA: He followed the American dream,
at least what his mind thought was the American dream.
You start at the bottom and you work your way up.
Then, eventually, you're gonna be at the top, and he was.
He just went about it the wrong way.
Captioned by Cotter Media Group.