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Gaetano Badalamenti (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaeˈtaːno badalaˈmenti]; 14 September 1923 – 29 April 2004) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. Don Tano Badalamenti was the capofamiglia of his hometown Cinisi, Sicily, and headed the Sicilian Mafia Commission in the 1970s.
Gaetano Badalamenti, soprannominato Zu Tano (Cinisi, 14 settembre 1923 – Ayer, 29 aprile 2004), è stato un mafioso italiano, legato a Cosa nostra. Fu il capo della cosca mafiosa di Cinisi in provincia di Palermo e ha diretto la "Commissione" dal 1974 al 1978.
Aug 24, 2022 · Wiretaps from public phones in Queens led to Gaetano Badalamenti in Brazil. The Sicilian boss in exile oversaw the Pizza Connection, including shipments of cocaine. Catalano was his American operations boss.
May 3, 2004 · Mr. Badalamenti, who came from Cinisi, Sicily, was sentenced to 45 years in prison in 1987 as one of the masterminds of a drug ring known as the Pizza Connection.
Pizza Connection. In early April 1984, the FBI closed in on a real-life Mafia godfather. His name was Gaetano Badalamenti, and he was the former top boss of the Sicilian Mafia. Though banished...
Gaetano Badalamenti was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $125,000, and since he was extradited from Spain with the provision that he serve no more than 30 years, he was ordered to be released after 30 years should he live that long.
Jan 28, 2016 · Catalano's status as a "zip"—or a Sicilian-born mafioso who immigrated to America—connected him to Gaetano Badalamenti, one of the former heads of the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo.
Gaetano Badalamenti (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaeˈtaːno badalaˈmenti]; was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia and what is now known as the world’s largest heroin smuggling operation that took place in pizza parlors across America but specificially centralized in New Jersey, New York, and Chicago.
Gaetano Badalamenti, once described as the "boss of all bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, died yesterday in a prison hospital in the United States at the age of 80, an advanced age denied many...
May 5, 2004 · Gaetano Badalamenti, 80, once described by federal authorities as the "boss of all bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, has died, a Justice Department spokesman said Friday.
