Hold on: Evidence that he was selling heroin should come first, not people having to prove that something did not occur. I have seen all the stories on him, they repeat same thing. I just don't see how they can monitor a person for so long, have so many informants wearing wires talking to him, and not have anything to show.
Even before Gravano flipped, the indictment against Conte came about in the late 1980's because a confidential informer provided evidence that Conte was trafficking in heroin. It was alleged that "Conte does not have physical contact over the heroin but directs the importation and distribution business through other members of Sicilian organized crime; and that he received $5,000 for every kilo of Sicilian heroin imported and sold in the New York metropolitan area." Two others, Tommaso Buscetta and Sammy Gravano, confirmed this. Italian authorities were also able to trace $1.9 million of Conte's drug money to Switzerland.
