Legal Opinion
Lamberti v. United States
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 4, 1998No. 95 Civ. 1557(LAK), 96 Civ. 3900(LAK), 96 Civ. 3908(LAK) and 97 Civ. 1866(LAK)PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
In one of the largest trials this district ever has seen, known popularly as the “Pizza Connection” case, twenty-one defendants stood accused of participating in a widespread conspiracy among members of the Sicilian mafia and La Cosa Nostra in the United States to import and distribute more than one and one-half tons of heroin and cocaine, accumulate in various pizza parlors more than one billion dollars of proceeds, and then smuggle the cash out of the country or launder it through a network of foreign bank accounts. Seventeen months of trial produced…
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