Law Offices of
Susan G. Kellman
mercy bears richer
fruits than strict justice
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Abraham Lincoln
United States v. Salamone (Pizza Connection)
Summary
Susan G. Kellman
I joined the defense team after 10 months of trial; from Sept, 1985-March, 1986, only 7 months. My client, Sal Salamone, was acquitted of all drug conspiracy and RICO charges. The Appeal, US v. Caseamento, stands for the proposition that no case this size can ever be tried together again.
Gaetano Badalamenti and the Pizza Connection
By Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus | July 2004 | American Mafia“Boston, May 2, 2004. Gaetano Badalamenti, once described by federal authorities as the ‘boss of bosses’ of the Sicilian mafia and ring leader of a billion-dollar drug smuggling operation, has died, a Justice Department spokesman said Friday. He was eighty. Mr. Badalamenti was sentenced in 1987 to 45 years in federal prison for being one of the ring leaders of the so-called Pizza Connection, a $1.65 billion heroin and cocaine operation that used pizzerias as fronts to distribute the drugs from 1975 to 1984. The trial of Mr. Badalamenti and nearly two dozen conspirators took seventeen month... more
Acquitted in 'Pizza Connection' Trial, Man Remains in Prison
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL | July 28, 1988 | New York TimesMore than four years after he was arrested in the ''pizza connection'' drug case and more than a year after he became the only defendant acquitted in the record trial that followed, the son of a Sicilian Mafia boss remains in jail in a convoluted immigration case...more
U.S. Seeks Long Terms This Week For 16 in 'Pizza Connection' Case
By FRANK J. PRIAL | June 21, 1987 | New York TimesSixteen defendants convicted last March in the ''pizza connection'' narcotics trial are to be sentenced beginning tomorrow morning in Federal District Court in Manhattan...more