Sicilian mob boss dies in US jail

Gaetano Badalamenti, once known as the “boss of bosses” of the Sicilian Mafia, has died at the age of 80 in the US, where he was serving a prison sentence for drug trafficking.

Sicilian mob boss dies in US jail

Badalamenti became notorious in the US for masterminding a crime ring which distributed heroin and cocaine through pizza parlours between 1975 and 1984.

He was sentenced in 1987 to 47 years in a US federal prison.

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