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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK: Louis Cirillo, 48, posed as a Bronx bagel baker making $200 a week. In fact, police say, he was one of the biggest narcotics distributors in the U.S., supplying a ton a year to street pushers. Cirillo got his heroin from a French ring that smuggled it into New York concealed in expensive automobiles. After intercepting a heroin-laden car that had been shipped to the U.S. from Europe, French and American agents indicted 28 members of the ring, including Cirillo, another Bronx man, John Anthony Astuto, 20 Frenchmen and an Austrian national; a number of them are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARCOTICS: Search and Destroy--The War on Drugs | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

Conforti's problem was that he is married to the sister of Louis Cirillo, a Bronx narcotics dealer who was recently sentenced to 25 years in jail. Last April the police dug up $1,000,000 in Cirillo's backyard. Some informants then told federal authorities that another $4,000,000 was hidden in Brother-in-Law Conforti's home. So the agents diligently did $50,000 worth of damage, by Conforti's estimate, before they gave up and left, without finding anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Search and Destroy? | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...MARIE CIRILLO, CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: The New American Samaritans | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

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