Valachi and “the French connection”

Frank Caruso, Vincent Mauro, Salvatore Maneri

On December 27, 1961, Joseph Valachi, a member of the Genovese Crime family, and ten co-fertures were found guilty of importing $ 150 million in the United States. Sentenced to twenty years for this case, it was the end of the long career of Racket de Valachi. A Few Months Later, He Would Become the First Peniter to Publicly Tescy to the existence of Cosa Nostra in the Us While Valachi Had Been An Important Link in the Drug Operation, That Link was necessary of a vast chain – A Multinational Trafficking Network that the general public WOULD LATER KNOW Director William Friedkin’s 1971 Film) AS French connection…