Mark Reiter, Gene Gotti and crew, possible triad involvement to some extent, purple gang and pizza connection
James Jackson was the big heroin dealer in Harlem that the gotti crew supplied
http://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/02/02/Two-reputed-mobsters-indicted-in-drug-ring/1642570776400/http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/848/336/291565/Act of Racketeering Nine
It was a part of the pattern of racketeering activity that, from on or about January 1, 1980, up to and including October 31, 1987, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, MARK REITER, ANGELO RUGGIERO, VITO LOIACONO, RAYMOND CLARK, a/k/a "Romar," LEONARD ROLLACK, a/k/a "Petey," a/k/a "Peter Rollack," a/k/a "Peter Ifill," TIMOTHY SMITH, a/k/a "Heartbeat," and ALFRED DICKS, the defendants, and James Jackson, a/k/a "Jack," a/k/a "James Bentley Jackson," a/k/a "Steven Gates," Eugene Romero, a/k/a "Mike Mellon," a/k/a "Eugene Prince," a/k/a "Mellon," Anthony Osborne, a/k/a "Oz," Anthony Mackenzie, a/k/a "Mac," a/k/a "Anthony Curry," Jerome Harris, a/k/a "Bones," Joseph Rodney Stokes, a/k/a "Littleman," Joseph Sherman, Matthew Walton, Ted H. Key, a/k/a "Ted Harold Key," a/k/a "Teddy Keys," a/k/a "Dwayne Sykes," Marco Wyche, Warren Cooper, Sherman Flowers, a/k/a "Sherman Bent," Anthony Johnson a/k/a "Tony Johnson", [sic ] Russell Fleming, Cherie Brown, a/k/a "Cherie Sloan," Joseph Bethea, a/k/a "Bey," James Simmons, a/k/a "Boo," Jerry Davis, a/k/a "New York Jerry," and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, unlawfully, intentionally and knowingly did conspire to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule I narcotic drug controlled substance, to wit, quantities of heroin, in violation of Section 846 of Title 21, United States Code.
Reiter's trial commenced on May 2, 1988.
The evidence against him included the testimony of numerous cooperating witnesses, including Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, James Jackson (who testified, among other things, that Reiter had supplied him with many kilograms of pure heroin, and that Reiter had personally ordered the murders of Beverly and Steven Ash after learning that Nicky Barnes had begun to cooperate with authorities (Tr. 316-343)), Salvatore Corallo (who testified, among other things, that his responsibilities were "to test, package heroin, weigh heroin, deliver [kilogram quantities of] heroin and collect cash from the sales of those heroin deals" to Reiter (Tr. 2235-36)), Vito Loiacono (who testified, among other things, that he worked "distributing the heroin for Mark, pick[ing] up money, set[ting] up appointments, pick[ing] up the drugs and stor[ing] it" over a period of years (Tr. 4028-4048)), and Russell Fleming (to whom Vito Loiacono delivered heroin for Reiter, and who Reiter ordered killed after he learned that Fleming was cooperating