Global Operations
The Montreal-New York and Caracas-Miami connections proved to be the gateway for narcotics to the world's biggest consumer-market. From its Venezuelan base the [BadWord]-Caruana clan supplied whatever drug was in demand – heroin, cocaine and cannabis. As their importance grew, however, the clan finally started to get to the attention of law enforcement agencies around the world.
Arrest warrants began to pile up. The 1983 Bono+159 report resulted in the first ones for the [BadWord] brothers and Alfonso Caruana, among others. Buscettas revelations in 1984 resulted in a new one for Pasquale [BadWord], followed by yet another set in 1985. Italian Mafia-prosecutor Giovanni Falcone again indicted the clan in 1989, when two influential clan-members were arrested in Germany.
I DONT THINK MONEY CAME FROM BONNANOS.... NOTICE THEY SAID 500 million was a conservative estimate, and only for a period of seven years....
At the time the family's estimated worth was US$ 500 million. It was estimated by those investigating the clan's activities that it had shipped at least 700 kilo's of heroin and 70 metric tons of hashish with a total value of 700 million US dollars. Already then the Italian press warned Prime Minister Henny Eman of Aruba to remember the name [BadWord] and Caruana. If not, he might find himself a prisoner of Cosa Nostra instead of independent of the Netherlands. (56)
NOTICE, ITS JOHN GAMBINO WHO IS IN CONTROL OF THE AMERICAN PART... ALSO NOTICE, THEY DID NOT PAY UP FRONT....
The investigation only looked at the years 1978-85, and the figures proved to be conservative. Subsequent evidence revealed that the investigators had missed a lot of what was going on. In 1992 pentito Gaspare Mutolo, Cosa Nostra's contact with Thai traffickers, disclosed massive heroin transports at the start of the 1980s. In 1981, Mutolo organized a 400 kilo shipment to the US. The [BadWord]-Caruana clan received half of the load, while John Gambino's crew took care of the other 200 kilos. When the money of the first deal came back, Mutolo immediately started to arrange another similar transport. (57)
AGAIN THIS MONEY WAS NOT BONNANO MONEY....
The shipments were financed by consortium of Sicilian Mafia clans. They had organized a pool to provide the money to buy the merchandise from Thai suppliers. The system in the heroin-business was that every Mafia family could invest in a shipment if it had the money. Each step in the different stages between buying and selling the commodity was payed along the way. The [BadWord] and Caruanas were the trusted buyers who supplied the market in North America.
