Gang Land’s Jerry Capeci writes
Franco Lupoi put up a good front for more than a year. But the feds acquired so much evidence against the international drug kingpin during their two-year, two-country sting, there was no way that the mob-connected Brooklyn gangster was going to take his chances at trial last year.
If he had, though, the feds had three secret weapons they were ready to use against him, Gang Land has learned.
Mr. Capeci writes. Three of his six codefendants in his sale of heroin to an undercover FBI agent and in plots to smuggle heroin, cocaine, and marijuana from Italy, Mexico and Guyana had secretly signed cooperation agreements with the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office and were prepared to testify against the 46-year-old Gambino family associate.
Mr. Capeci writes, And befitting the international flavor of the case, which also involved the Calabrian organized crime clan known as ‘Ndrangheta, the lineage of the three codefendants who were ready to take the stand and back up the tapes and testimony of the Italian American G-Man who snookered his paesano Lupoi are Chinese, Latino and Greek, according to court papers filed in the case.
