One of the first CIA protected dope operations!
“In its first year of existence, agency operatives help the Mafia seize total power in Sicily and it sends money to heroin-smuggling Corsican mobsters in Marseille to assist in their battle with Communist unions for control of the city’s docks. By 1951, Luciano and the Corsicans have pooled their resources, giving rise to the notorious `French Connection’ which would dominate the world heroin trade until the early 1970s.”
Yes, proving any number of old adages.
“If you dance with the devil, then you haven't got a clue, for you think you'll change the devil, but the devil changes you.”
"If you mix a gallon of clean water with a gallon of dirty water, what you've got is two gallons of dirty water."
Today in New York the criminals would have been released without posting bail.