by sdeitche » Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:52 am
cavita wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:46 am
New Orleans was also heavily involved with Dallas as well with many Dallas members and associates having been born and raised in Louisiana.
So, after Trafficante Jr died in 1987, the Florida Dept of Law Enforcement racked Vicent LoScalzo venturing out to New Orleans and Dallas to meet with Joe Marcello and Joe Campisi, respectively. Though they considered Campisis to be the "boss" of, it was operating under the wing of New Orleans, and not sure that there were many guys left in Dallas at that point. Around that same time,police were intercepting calls between Tampa and New Orleans (Joe Marcello), talking about shipping crates of tomatoes back and forth. Though the Marcellos were, ostensibly, tomato salesmen, it was believed that the terms "tomatoes" was slang for cocaine. There were some busts of some ancillary Tampa guys for coke at the time, but nothing concrete was traced back to NO.
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New Orleans was also heavily involved with Dallas as well with many Dallas members and associates having been born and raised in Louisiana.
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So, after Trafficante Jr died in 1987, the Florida Dept of Law Enforcement racked Vicent LoScalzo venturing out to New Orleans and Dallas to meet with Joe Marcello and Joe Campisi, respectively. Though they considered Campisis to be the "boss" of, it was operating under the wing of New Orleans, and not sure that there were many guys left in Dallas at that point. Around that same time,police were intercepting calls between Tampa and New Orleans (Joe Marcello), talking about shipping crates of tomatoes back and forth. Though the Marcellos were, ostensibly, tomato salesmen, it was believed that the terms "tomatoes" was slang for cocaine. There were some busts of some ancillary Tampa guys for coke at the time, but nothing concrete was traced back to NO.