Regarding the Pizza Connection and the heroin dealing under Carlo Gambino and Castellano...
If there is a Sicilian faction in a Gambino Family and they are moving the Smack, but their top guy is a both a member of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and a made man, a Capo with the Gambinos, then that Sicilian Capo is kicking up to the Gambino Boss.
So in that arrangement, the zips are doing the shipping and receiving, they are collecting the money, and sending the stuff out to the small time distributors, and also kicking up tax to the American Boss. The idea behind the rule against drug dealing was to insulate all Americans (anyone "on record" with Uncle Sam) and by extension the American Cosa Nostra Boss, from RICO and Rockefeller drug laws. The idea I guess was that surveillance would be harder when the guys moving the stuff are illegals with no papers, no social security numbers, nothing.
You could be right. However the key players in that were members of the gambino and bonanno families and were being supplied by gaetano baldamenti. They had the connections across the pond and in fact a lot of money was sent back over there. It wasn't a tax, it was there heroin so of course they got their share of the proceeds.
Not when one Union (Int'l Longshoreman's Union) controls the whole harbor and you got key people in the Union.
Union can't control what comes in and out. And they can't see through containers.
Cases in point.
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/august/counterfeit-goods-smuggling-ring-dismantled http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/02/carjacking_ring_broken_up.html Unions can't just naturally detect the contraband of other criminal groups. Unions are mostly just used for looting, kickbacks and shaking down workers etc.
