New York pizzeria owner, son guilty in U.S. drug case tied to Italian mafia

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Fri Jul 22, 2016 5:12pm EDT

New York pizzeria owner, son guilty in U.S. drug case tied to Italian mafia

NEW YORK | BY NATE RAYMOND

A New York pizzeria owner and his son were found guilty on Friday of importing over 50 kilograms of cocaine into the United States from Costa Rica, in a case born out of a probe into an Italian organized crime group's drug trafficking activities.

Gregorio Gigliotti, 60, and his son Angelo Gigliotti, 36, were found guilty by a federal jury in Brooklyn on various drug-related charges, including conspiracy to import cocaine, according to the son's lawyer.

The elder Gigliotti was also convicted on two firearm-related counts, while Angelo Gigliotti was acquitted on the gun-related charges he faced, according to Alan Futerfas, Angelo Gigliotti's lawyer.

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Both men were arrested in March 2015, two months before U.S. and Italian authorities said they arrested 13 people on related charges for participating in a drug trafficking ring in Italy's southern Calabria region.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-usa-cocaine-idUSKCN1022I7

[Monk06]

1. Importing large drug shipments using a Pizza joint as a cover. Now where have I seen that before?

The French Connection?

[winstars]

2. Great choice!!! But Sal and Angie ran what we called in NYC a luncheonette...

Car chase scene:

Thanks!

[davekriss]

4. My opinion, tied for best car chase scenes in film

Along with the chase in the French Connection (a fantastic movie), there's the car chase scenes in Bullit where Steve McQueen always gets his man. Also a good movie. A lot of good films were made in the seventies.

[Monk06]

5. I'll have to watch it again I sorta recall Popeye referring to it as a pizza joint in the

survellance film but my memory may have failed me

[LeftyMom]

3. .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Connection_Trial