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Were you living in Rockford in the 80's when Pietro Alfano was operating a pizzeria in Oregon,IL? Alfano was Gaetano Badalamenti's nephew. Did Rockford get a cut of that? Did Elmwood Park? How was the relationship between Rockford and the Zips? Thanks.
I was living in Upstate NY at the time but I remeber this well...Alfano's operation was 100% Rockford, but the Outfit got a cut becuse it was frankly too big for Rockford to handle alone.This was a small part of a HUGE operation accross the country involving at least 8 families. Utica, which is where I was living, had it's own Pizza connection at the time.
These small towns are now and have always been useful to Rockford.This was a heroin operation hiding in plain sight. Today there is a Rockford suburb in which the majority of the commercial and rental property is owned by one Rockford associate(soon to be made according to some)and there are cash businessses in this twon of 3000 that have bneen washing Rockford and outfit money for years.