Originally posted by The Irish Mafia 28:
Beer Baron is Dutch Schultz
Who is the guy who first started to bring cocaine in the U.S.
Cocaine was legally available in the US in over-the-counter drugs into the 20th century. Coca-Cola's original formula may have included some extracts from the coca leaf.
But to your question: Don Vito Cascio Ferro first established a Sicilian/NY drug connection. Arnold "King of the Gamblers" Rothstein also was an early, big-time dealer importer of opium, heroin and cocaine.
Q. Who took over the Flamingo Hotel after Bugsy Siegel's assassination?
