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pizzeria owner accused of importing cocaine from Costa Rica
    #23472719 - 07/24/16 03:59 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

22 July 2016

A New York pizzeria owner and his son were found guilty on Friday of importing over 50 kilograms of cocaine into the United States from Costa Rica - in a case born out of a probe into an Italian organized crime group's drug trafficking activities.

Gregorio Gigliotti, 60, and his son Angelo Gigliotti, 36, were found guilty by a federal jury in Brooklyn on various drug-related charges, including conspiracy to import cocaine, according to the son's lawyer.

The elder Gigliotti was also convicted on two firearm-related counts. Angelo Gigliotti was acquitted on the gun-related charges he faced, according to his lawyer Alan Futerfas.


Gregorio Gigliotti (pictured with his wife) and his son Angelo Gigliotti, 36, were found guilty by a federal jury in Brooklyn on various drug-related charges in a case linked to the Italian mafia

'We're obviously disappointed in the verdict, and I'm sure the family will be appealing the verdict,' he said.

A lawyer for Gregorio Gigliotti did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn had no immediate comment.

Both men were arrested in March 2015, two months before U.S. and Italian authorities said they arrested 13 people on related charges for participating in a drug trafficking ring in Italy's southern Calabria region.

The area is home to 'Ndrangheta - Italy's richest and most powerful criminal organization.

U.S. authorities say the group has conducted drug smuggling and trafficking in New York with members in Calabria and Toronto, Canada. 

He and his wife ran several businesses in New York used to facilitate drug trafficking, including Cucino Amodo Mio, an Italian restaurant and pizzeria in the borough of Queens, and an import/export company.


Gregorio Gigliotti and his wife ran several businesses in New York used to facilitate drug trafficking, including Cucino Amodo Mio (above), an Italian restaurant and pizzeria in the borough of Queens

In October and December 2014, authorities said they intercepted two shipments of cassava that contained a total of about 55 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside cardboard boxes of the starchy root.

Prosecutors have said some of the drugs imported to the United States were destined for exportation and distribution in Italy, and that the Calabria ring was operating on behalf of the U.S.-based defendants.

In a raid in March police seized $100,000 (£65,000), six pistols, a rifle, cocaine and marijuana at the premises.

However, jurors did not hear allegations of the Gigliottis' purported organized crime links, though they were informed that the case stemmed from a joint investigation by U.S. and Italian authorities, Futerfas said.

But it was reported last year that Gregorio was the U.S. broker between the Ndrangheta and the New York mafia families and the South American drug cartels.


Authorities said they intercepted two shipments of cassava (above) in 2014 that contained a total of about 55 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside cardboard boxes of the starchy root

He was arrested after a 10 month-surveillance operation, which painted a picture of a violent gangster with terrifying psychopathic tendencies, including cannibalism and threatening to dissolve competitors in acid.

In one phone conversation recorded by police, he allegedly boasted to his wife that he ate the heart and kidney of a rival who owed him money.

'You still don't know me, even you? Do you remember one time I told you that at the same table I ate a soffritto… I ate a kidney and a piece of heart,' he allegedlly said to his wife Eleanora Lucia in August 2014.

She replied: 'You are half crazy. You are making me vomit Greg.'

In another phone tap, Gigliotti threatened to carry out a violent scene from the Martin Scorsese film in which two characters get beaten with baseball bats and buried alive, prosecutors claim.

'Do you remember the movie Casino?' he asked his son in a recorded conversation. 'Do you remember what happened to the two brothers? This is what I have to do to him.'

He also threatened to murder his own colleagues, according to investigators in Italy.

Gigliotti allegedly claimed he would make two alleged Ndrangheta members Franco and Pino Fazio, who crossed him, 'disappear' by 'dissolving them in acid.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3704061/N-Y-pizzeria-owner-son-guilty-U-S-drug-case-tied-Italian-mafia.html


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Re: pizzeria owner accused of importing cocaine from Costa Rica [Re: Ogla]
    #23472820 - 07/24/16 04:38 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Pizza and drug smuggling? What a fucking boss.


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Re: pizzeria owner accused of importing cocaine from Costa Rica [Re: Kush_Zombie]
    #23473978 - 07/24/16 10:46 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

There was a food truck that used to sell coke around a college my friends went to,got away with it for like 6 months,then busted


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