Black Organized Crime and The Italian Mafia: The Heroin Years
Channel: Original Gangsters Podcast
Date: 2022-07-21

We start the episode by discussing iconic Harlem drug kingpins of the 1970s, such as Melvin Combs (P-Diddy's father), Frank Matthews, Nicky Barnes, and Frank Lucas. Legendary DEA undercover agent Frank Panessa joins us and explains how the African American crime bosses and Italian Mafia worked together as a global heroin network.

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