"Pizza Mafioso" Dies in US Jail

World | May 1, 2004, Saturday // 00:00

Gaetano Badalamenti, once known as the "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, died at the age of 80 in the US where he was serving a prison sentence. Badalamenti became notorious in the US for masterminding a crime ring, which distributed heroin and cocaine through pizza parlors between 1975 and 1984. He was sentenced in 1987 to 47 years in federal prison. Italy also convicted Badalamenti in absentia of the 1978 murder of a radio DJ who poked fun at the Mafia.

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