HIST-B 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Joseph Bonanno, Narcotic Control Act, United States Senate Special Committee To Investigate Crime In Interstate Commerce
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~there to discuss new routes in the heroin trade with the sicilian ma osi. +buscetta, as a pentito, claims to falcone that neither of them were involved in drugs. +he also says no member of the ma a is not involved in drugs. 1951 kefauver hearings and 1956 narcotics control act. ~could be convicted and sent to prison for a very long time, big crackdown. Crackdown on drug dealing and ma a ban (1956-57) ~buscetta (pa) tano badalamenti (cinisi), little bird greco (ciaculli) drug. ~french connection = organized crime in heroin production (where ma a got herion) From us capo to prisoner to italian businessman . ~commission from coordinating body to instrument of dictatorship (corleonesi) ~decline of french connection and sicilian heroin re ning (genco russo"s bone )
