A list of deaths and arrests linked to the drug trade at the time.And some prison murders.

Pleasant Avenue drugdealer Joseph “Jojo”Manfredi
10 August 1972 were Joseph “Jojo” Manfredi’s nephews Philip John Manfredi and Philip D Manfredi found shot and killed in their car in the Bronx. 19 september 1972 were Joseph “Jojo” Manfredi and 8 others found quilty of narcotics trafficking. In November 1972 Manfredi was sentenced to 30 years.

Bonanno capo Galante leaves Atlanta prison after 12 years
23 Januari 1974 Carmine Galante leaves Atlanta state prison where he had done 12 years on heroin charges. Within 48 hours the heavy bronze doors of Frank Costello's grave were blown up. Philip Rastelli is head of the Bonanno family. Rastelli's stepson James Fernandes was shot to death 7 march 1974 in front of his clothingshop in Brooklyn.

narcotics informer Anthony Finn killed
Around 1974 Was narcotics informer Anthony Finn in a bar beaten to death on the Lower East side.

drugdealer Michael Viggiano killed
26 august 1974 the body of drugdealer Michael Viggiano found in the trunk of a burning car in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, he had been shot in the head and stomach. 3 others were also slain around this date. Charles Gagliodotto??? Viggiano had stood on trial with 13 other dealers. ?? Viggiano is held as a witness in the Glick murder as is Dennis Brown of jersey City who is under indictment n New jersey.

Tony Frankos
Tony Frankos stabs to death 28 oktober 1974 in prison Lucchese associate Richard “Richie” Bilello (his biological father is Lawrence “Larry”Bilello). Attica inmate Richard “Richie” Bilello, the first inmate to be sentenced for crimes arising from the 1971 Attica prison rebellion (he raped a fellow inmate), died 29 october 1974 after being stabbed by another inmate at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora prison. In the Bilello murder was Tony Franos represented by lawyer Gino Gallina.

Black Harlem heroinkings Leslie "Ike" Atkinson and Frank Lucas
The blacks bought their heroin mainly from the former sergeant Leslie "Ike" Atkinson who had been stationed in Bangkok during the Vietnamwar. He delivered also to Frank Lucas who worked with his 5 brothers ( Shorty and Larry) and their organisation which they called the Country Boys. They worked in Newark, the Bronx and New Jersey.

Frank Lucas was arrested 28 January 1975, when an NYPD/DEA strike force, acting on a tip from two Pleasant Avenue guys, staged a surprise raid on his house in New Jersey. In the ensuing panic, Julie Lucas, screaming "Take it all, take it all," tossed several suitcases out the window. The cases were found to contain $584,000 in rumpled bills. Also found were keys to Lucas's Cayman Islands safe-deposit boxes, property deeds, and a ticket to a United Nations ball, compliments of the ambassador of Honduras. In 1975 Lucas got a sentence of 70 years thanks to a member of his gang who was later killed.

Gambino member and cocaine dealer Carmine Consalvo was 7 september 1975 thrown through his window at the 16th floor.

Two weeks later his brother Francesso "Frank" Consalvo had the same happen to him when members of the Gambino family threw him from his appartment because he wanted to avenge his brother. They were killed at the orders of Vincent Gigante because they had to stand trial on a heroinindictment.

7 October 1975 police find in a van the bodies of narcotic traffickers George Adamo (33) and Charles La Rocca (28) associates of the gambino family. They had been close to Carmine Consalvo.

Anthony Verzino was imprisoned from 1966 through august 1973 and when he came free he went into heroin which he bought from the group Pallatta, Joseph “Joe the Grind”Magnano and Bollella who also sold to Ernest Malizia and Mario Perna.

Caffe Palermo was run by Anthony De Lutro at 148 Mulberry Street. Fama was seen meeting in Caffe Palermo his uncle Albert Palmieri who is a chief lieutenant of drugking Anthony De Lutro. 24 October 1975 was Anthony De Lutro found guilty of distributing narcotics. 3 december 1975 Anthony De Lutro (sold 5 kilos of heroin) was sentenced to 20 years. Co defendant Soldano (sold 3 kilos heroin) got 15 years.

In 1975 were Lucchese capo Di Palermo and Salvato arrested for herointrafficking. In 1978 Di Palermo got 12 years

In june 1976 Atkinson`s organisation was rolled up by police and he and the 5 others got sentences of 25 years.

Leroy (Nicky) Barnes
His syndicate made enormous profits by cutting and packaging low-quality heroin. Barnes controlled heroin sales and manufacture throughout New York State and extended his business into Canada and Pennsylvania. By 1976, he had at least seven major lieutenants (who were they?) working for him, each of whom controlled a dozen mid-level distributors, who in turn supplied up to 40 street-level retailers.

Lucchese soldier Vincent Pappa
Vincent papa was 4 february 1972 arrested with almost 1 million dollars (967550 dollars) in cash in a green suitcase in the Bronx and had been convicted of possessing 160 pounds of heroin. Vincent Papa was indicted 21 april 1972 for heroindealing. 14 may 1975 Vincent C Papa got 20 years. It is papa’s second years term in the drugstheft. 19 september 1975 were Vincent C papa an d 15 others indicted on drugcounts. Papa was the key to the theft of 398 pounds of heroin from the New York City Police Department's property room (Boston Globe, 10 August 1978).

Dominique Orsini
The last of the Ricord organization to be arrested was Dominique Orsini. In 1975 he was tracked down in Senegal, Africa by DEA agents and brought back to the U.S.

24 september 1976 Galante had his men kill Andinno Pappadia "Andimo Papadio"(married to Eleanor Rose Atera, a cousin of mrs John Ormento), a power in the Lucchese family, who was a close friend of Genovese and Ormento, and who also went down on Genovese's bust. Pappadia was shotgunned to death in front of his home.

4 November 1976 was the capo Pietro Licata (70) of the Bonanno family shot and killed in his cadillac possibly by Cesare Bonventre. Licata was followed up as capo of Knickerbocker Avenue by the sicilian mobster Salvatore "Sal" Catalano the leader of Bonanno capo Galante`s zips (sicilian born mobsters).
Knickerbocker Avenue's Bonanno capo Salvatore “Sal the baker” Catalano

Amuso was arrested 30 may 1977 with Anthony “gaspipe”Casso and 2 associates for involvement in a drug trafficking ring to smuggle heroin from far East asian. Amuso had 3 pounds of heroin in his possession and was sentenced to several years.Sicilian mobster Vincenzo Napoli was out on bail after he had been arrested for the sale of a kg of heroin in which case also Victor Amuso had appeared.

Atlanta prison inmate and Lucchese soldier Vincent Pappa killed
In july 1977 Vincent Pappa was slashed to death in Atlanta prison by black convicts who were possibly paid by jewish drugdealer Herbie Sperling. 26 October 1979 were 2 convicts sentenced to life for the prison murder of Vincent C Papa.

Lawyer Gino Gallina killed
5 November 1977 was Gino E. Gallina (42), then a Pelham Manor lawyer for "top drug dealers (like Frank Lucas) and organized-crime figures (like Pappa and orsini) rubbed out mob style as many passersby looked on in horror on an evening at the corner of Carmine and Varick Streets. He had been an ex assistant prosecutor for Hogan. According to judge Johnson behind the murder was Frank Lucas. Frank still maintains he has "no idea at all" about who murdered Gallina. it was rumoured the rubout was done by the New Jersey purple gang leader Viserto.

2 December 1977 was Barnes convicted and 19 January 1978 Nicky Barnes was in the Federal District Court in Manhattan, sentenced to life in prison on a federal charge that he headed a drug ring in New York City."

NY Purple Gang leader Frank John Viserto jr imprisoned in Leavenworth
Viserto was convicted in 1978 on heroin charges and spend the next 10 years mostly in Leavenworth prison and became close there with Tony provenzano. Viserto was released 31 december 1988 and started to work in a pizza parlour and lived in new jersey.

12 April 1978 Dominique Orsini was found slashed to death in his isolation cell in the Federal pen in Atlanta. Earlier his cellmate Vincent Papa had been murdered, as had been their lawyer Gino Gallina. Orsini and Papa had allegedly been negotiating with the FBI via Gallina for reduced sentences in return for information (France Soir, 13 April 1978). Perhaps the information concerned policemen involved in the theft.

“Black Harlem” herointycoon Charlie Pretorius
16 March 1978 at the British airport Heathrows a black girl was caught with 10 kgs of asian heroin. She told police that 2 days later also 2 couriers would arrive accompanied by Glenston Laws (30) and Bobby Beutel (30) members of the famous Pretorius Gang who deal in Harlem and the Bronx. Laws became a witness after arrest and so police can arrest Charlie Pretorius (37) and 12 of his bosses.

20 March 1978 were Nino Martini and Michael Mandelino found in a car both had been shot in the head.

In 1978 ???? Charles Monaco was having a drink in a bar when he was murdered. Frank Morici had just said good night to his girlfriend when he was shot four times and left to die in a snow covered street. Michael Paradiso said he had killed Gambino associate Frank Morici in 1978 because he had informed o his brother . Michael Paradiso also boasted he killed Robert Di bernardo. Police said 4 gangtype killings in Brooklyn were linked to feud over narcotics. Consalvo “Suicides

Genovese associate Patrick Presenzano killed
23 March 1978 police find the body of Patrick Presenzano who was connected to the Genovese in Brooklyn, he was a suspect in narcotics selling in the Fulton Fish Market area.

19 december 1978 was the body of William Terrell found, he was an associate of Leroy “Nicky”barnes.

Anthony “little pussy”Russo was serving 3 to 5 years in Trenton State Prison for giving false testimony and got 12 february 1972 stabbed in prison by a Black Muslim. When Anthony russo had been stabbed in prison it had been done by a group of blacks led by Teddy Gibson who also stabbed several of Russo’s friends like Charlie Heilig and elsewhere in prison Russo’s friend Stanley Mars was stabbed. The next morning another Russo associate Mike Masucci was attacked and badly cut. He survived and was paroled and ran the Jolly Trolly casino in Las Vegas.

Bonanno capo Carmine Galante was seen by the Commission as a danger, they gave the contract at his life to capo Salvatore "Sal" Catalano whose men Cesare Bonventre and his nephew Baldassare Amato were bodyguards of Galante. (Bonventre lived at 83th street in Brooklyn and was related to the Bonventre's and Bonanno's). 12 July 1979 Galante smokes his cigar at the veranda of the restaurant of his nephew Giuseppe Turano in Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn. His bodyguards were with him and also in his company were Leonardo Coppola and Giuseppe Turano. Three killers under whom Anthony Indelicato, wearing skimasks, entered the restaurant from the backdoor and walked to the veranda. Galante and his guests were shot to death, his bodyguards drew their pistols but not to help their boss, Bonventre gave the coup de grace to one of Galante`s friends. Amato and Bonventre left with the killers the restaurant and stepped in a car driven by Santo Giordano.

eh?

my apologies if its not that clear, i copied and pasted alot of it off of gangster inc.

i don't understand the need for this?

eh mambo, mambo italiano!

he made a post. what's so confusing about it?

When will organized crime realize that the cause of their downfall most of the time is always drugs?

You would think they would learn their lesson by now. Who the fuck wants to do this shit? Mobsters can make plenty of money from Gambling if they really want to make money.

Fuck drugs in my opinion. Nothing good comes from them.

Why would there be no need for this?
The info in this thread´s original post can be used for further researching for those who are interested in this particular subject.

I dont think it has been there downfall, drug trafficking has been a part of organised crime since the 40s and probably before. Gotti, Gigante and alot of other big names went down for other things besides drug dealing. Drug dealing just made the game more viscous but it cant be blamed for there current predicament. Also if youve got a large family i doubt there all getting rich off of gambling, criminals arent gonna share with each other.

quite a few people connected to vicent papa were killed after they were arrested.Heres an excerpt from an article i found. http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg20852.html

It must have been prisoner 77,343's worst dream come true when, on 1 October
1979, he was transferred to Hell's waiting room, the federal penitentiary in
Atlanta.

In Atlanta's nightmare of a maximum security prison, Dominique Orsini,
prisoner 77,343's friend and partner in the branch of the French Mafia known
as Grupo Frances, had been murdered in an isolation cell on 12 April 1978. In
the same prison six months earlier their heroin customer, Vincent Papa, had
been eliminated by contract killing.[1] And before that, Orsini's lawyer,
Gino Gallina, had been shot down in New York.[2]

Of nine murders committed within Atlanta's walls over a seventeen-month
period in 1977-78, at least four were contracts on Mafia connected narcotics
dealers, of whom Orsini and Papa were among the elite.[3] Since then the
killings have continued, despite federal investigation of the obsolete
seventy-eight year old prison.[4]

Everyone has there hand in the pie right now

capeci article from back in 1978. Heroin:the deadliest game has changed

- The ones that did not get killed does anyone know if they have lasted in the game.

-Or did the rule of no drugs get them all ?

-Don't know about people out there but the 70.s when drugs came flooding in made OC very different and dangerous place .

-I am not sure what was the first family to fall head first into it , I believe it was the (Bonannos) If not who was it ?

-Don't mean the first person to deal i saying the first family to go all in .

there are guys like Matthew Maddonna and John Gambino who were pretty big time dealers back then who got caught and did time and are now back on the street(at least for now.)

thanks scorcese good post

madonna was def pushin alotta h. didnt nicky barnes buy sometimes off of him. i remember reading barnes or someone in his crew would pick up a car from a predetermined location loaded with h and drop it back off later loaded with money

Ya Madonna and Barnes met in prison and when they got out Madonna was his main supplier of H,until Madonna got arrested again of course.

So is Madonna still on the streets and active ?

in 07 Madonna was indicted in operation heat along with a number of people in the jersey crew including both ralph perna and scarfo jr, and was indicted again in a big luchese gambling bust in 09. as of now he is free on bail. the 09 gambling case seems to be in some type of "legal limbo" where the defense wants the charges dropped on a bunch of technachalties and the prosecution wants to bring it to trial, they have been litigating over it for years.

i think the luchesses were perhaps the first as a family to get involved, especially with the french connection. The bonannos seemed to have come into prominence after that with carmine galante. I think alot of killings were drug related but to say it was because of a no drug rule is probably not true.

I think things changed when the dons were heavily into drug dealing and trafficking, and it was no secret. 4 of the 5 families had high profile bosses heavily involved with drugs.

Both John Gotti and Sammy the Bull were deeply involved with drugs.

Carmine Galante was powerful enough to talk about becoming boss of bosses.

Gaspipe Casso made a fortune with drugs- he owned a fleet of trawlers and a jet airliner to move product. Roy DeMeo and Sammy Gravano were two of his biggest clients.

While the above guys made money dealing drugs in the 70's, Vito Genovese's drug history in prior decades was probably well known among LCN.