By Marla Eggar

Heroin has always been a profitable business whether it’s organized or not. A person can invest a simple $1500 (I’m told) and have a turnaround profit of over $15,000 in less than two weeks, again the streets are talking not me. With that hypothetical assumption lingering, one can see the enticement for the average street pharmacist to take a chance. The best example of how profitable the heroin trafficking business can be one only needs to examine the layout of The Pizza Connection.

Now in summary, the pizza connection was a mob hustle to sell a mass amount of heroin and cocaine (mainly heroin) in the U.S. The reality is this adventure was so much more sophisticated and clever that till this day it sets the standard for elaborate schemes and should’ve received an award for absolute brilliance! Strategically, the operation got its roots from Carmine Galante. Galante was not the first mobster to deal with drugs, however, I feel he was the one who laid the foundation of how to make it a profitable empire (in regards to the Pizza Connection).