Pizza Connection Trial: History and Key Facts

The Pizza Connection Trial (in full, United States v. Badalamenti et al.) was a criminal trial against the Sicilian Mafia and American Mafia that took place before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City, U.S. The trial centered on a number of independently owned pizza parlor fronts used to distribute drugs, which had imported US$1.65 billion of heroin from Southwest Asia to the United States between 1975 and 1984. The trial lasted from September 30, 1985, to March 2, 1987, ending with 18 convictions, with sentences handed down on June 22, 1987. Lasting about 17 months, it was the longest trial in the judicial history of the United States at the time.

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