I don't think Frank lucas ever had the same influence barnes, frank matthews or even the philly black mafia had. He was actually ripped off during the early 70s by some italian drug dealers and didn't do anything about it. Frank Matthews got ripped off by the same people but he kidnapped one of them and got his money back.
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/529/149/386914/ A) The Mattews-Harrison Rip-off (Spring 1973)
As is true of each of the four major deals hereinafter described, Albert Rossi and Ernest Coralluzzo were the principal participants in this transaction. In the spring of 1973, these two and James Capotorto negotiated with Frank Matthews and Harold Harrison for the sale to them of thirty to fifty kilograms of heroin. After Matthews and Harrison had paid $375,000 of the agreed price, Rossi and Coralluzzo, exhibiting a disrespect for the rules of fair play extreme even among narcotics kingpins, decided to renege on their part of the deal.3 Matthews and Harrison, understandably annoyed by such lack of cooperation, decided that self-help would be the most appropriate remedy under the circumstances. Unfortunately for Mr. Capotorto, he turned out to be the object to which Harrison and Matthews helped themselves. Rossi and Coralluzzo, in their only display of humanity revealed by the evidence at trial, returned the $375,000 in exchange for the release of their grateful companion.
Ive posted this up before , i was wondering if anyone knew anything about these italian drug dealers?
