ONE SLICE AT A TIME
We are an authentic, mafia run company. Delivering our services straight from Sicily, all the way to New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Come order a slice of pure Sicilian pizza or order off our "secret" menu.
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT: A SUMMARYBadalament’s Pizzeria is all about heroin and some cocaine as well, as we are the Sicilian mafia’s main source of income. We buy the morphine base in Turkey, which is shipped to Sicily and used to make heroin. Directions to our main pizza business front in New York is on the Home page. The FBI, with help from Spanish intelligence, has conducted surveillance on all of our fronts from New York to Wisconsin. They listened to numerous phone calls, in which we were selling drugs. The phone calls were difficult to investigate as we are all fluent in Sicilian and especially because of our handy code phrase for heroin: 100% pure cotton t-shirts. Thanks in large part to the FBI agent Joe Pistone who infiltrated our close-knit family in 1976 and had been working undercover for years, we were taken to trial on October 24th, 1985. Not only was the FBI involved, but the DEA, New York Police Department, US Customs, and authorities in Italy, Sicily, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, and Mexico were involved in the investigation and could testify against us. The trial lasted for 17 months and cost tens of millions of dollars. Assistant US Attorney Louis Freeh, who led the federal prosecutors, argued that we had an international heroin trafficking organized crime business. 19 out of 22 of our very best gang members were convicted in the trial. Two disloyal gang-members who pleaded lesser sentences were murdered and shot. That just shows how loyal our Pizzeria business is! Sadly, two of our most important bosses, Badalamenti and Catalano were given 45 years each. In loving memory of Badalamenti, who died in prison in 2004, our Pizzeria is named after him - and Catalano was released in 2009.
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WHY WE ARE THE MOST FAMOUSOur case is one of the most famous ever because, as the US attorney general at the time, William French Smith says, it was “the most significant case involving heroin trafficking by traditional organized crime that has ever been developed by the Government.” The sheer amount of heroin we smuggled into the country is valued at $1.65 billion. Not only was our drug business very profitable, but we were also influential in politics and had become part of a watershed. Freeh, the lead prosecutor, described the case as the FBI’s first significant international criminal investigation and prosecution, as many other countries were involved in the investigation. The tools the FBI used to investigate our mafia were also used later for organized crime. It was a turning point in criminal case history. The case headlined national newspapers as it dragged on for 17 whole months because of the complicated layers of our international drug manufacturing, smuggling, and money laundering scheme.
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