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Pizza, Mafia and Trafficking...

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2/ MAFIA - THE PIZZA CONNECTION

In the 1980s, the Sicilian Mafia relied on the so-called "pizza connection" to ship heroin and cocaine to mob-run pizzerias in towns throughout the U.S. using cans of San Marzano tomatoes.
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The scheme involved purchasing morphine base from suppliers in Turkey, processing it into heroin in Sicily, smuggling it into the U.S., and then selling it through pizza shops and other Mafia-run businesses stretching from New York to Illinois and Wisconsin.
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The Pizza Connection Trial began in September 1985 ending with convictions of 21 defendants in March 1987. The FBI started investigating a drug smuggling tie between the Sicilian Mafia and the Bonanno Crime Family since 1980, with the first arrests being made in 1984.
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Rudy Giuliani was US Attorney SDNY during the take down. Rudy was mayor of NYC from 1993 to 2001.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/the-pizza-connection-35th-anniversary-040519
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In April 2001, NY Times publishes an article about Albanian immigrants taking over the Italian pizza restaurants in NYC.

Is this advertising for "Pizza and Pasta" biz operating again?

Giuliani will be out by end of 2001.
And we all know what happened in September.
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Albanian organized crime is very active in USA and Europe.

- Drug trafficking
- Weapons
- Human trafficking

'Taken' WAS A DOCUMENTARY!?!?
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In this 2009 FBI interview, an agent talks about a 100 kilo heroin smuggling plan to use a FURNITURE COMPANY front and ship the heroin by sea in containers with FURNITURE!! Are we connecting more dots? https://www.fbi.gov/audio-repository/news-podcasts-inside-albanian-organized-crime.mp3/view
9/ More from 2009 FBI interview:
“Most of the work that they've done, as far as trying to show legitimate work—opening up restaurants; working in restaurants; associating with people in the restaurant business where they either worked at or had some type of economic interest.”
10/ Trafficking follows a supply chain as well.

We typically only hear about those involved at the end of the chain.

We need to know how high this goes.
12/ Human traffickers will THRIVE in an world...

Where everyone wears masks.

Where children aren’t at school.

Where children are being geo tracked on social media all day.

Where police are being defunded!

This is the REAL epidemic!

#SaveTheChildren https://twitter.com/carmindabrendel/status/1284415801953525761
16/ Human trafficking is the fastest growing business of organized crime. $150 Billion a year worldwide.
17/ Bill and Hillary sold Long Beach Port to China!

Between 1995-1996, the Clinton administration actively intervened to make sure a Communist Chinese cargo container shipping interest got a too-good deal on a Long Beach, California, shipping terminal.

http://www.dailyrepublican.com/chinesegot.html 
18/ The Chinese deal apparently went forward without a national security review. The White House apparently avoided normal and routine government channels in pushing the deal through in 1995.
19/ Clinton WH dismissed issues raised concerning smuggling of guns, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, intelligence collection, and access to U.S. and Panamanian ports.
20/ According to news reports in 1997, Democratic donor Johnny Chung received a $150,000 transfer from the Bank of China three days before he handed then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff a $50,000 check.
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