mexico and colombia was flooding the usa in the 70tys it just didnt make for great press like a few old guys smuggling dope from italy across a ocean, i mean they were smuggling but read the pizza connection book sometimes the boss baldamenti was sending 2 to 5 kilos of dope a month thats not that big. then the guys were caught complaining the product was weak or no good and while this was happening up im the northeast around 1970tys 80ty miami is builing there city on drugs
It’s good that you say that about Badalementi. I have always seen people say that he was a “Heroin King†and he made so much money but when I read online that he couldn’t pay his or his son’s multi million dollar bail then I started to think that people were grossly over exaggerating his kingpin status. I think he might have oversaw a lot of heroin dealings but I don’t think that it’s evident that he was making as much as someone like Frank Matthews.
