The Butcher (23 page)

Castellamare Del Golfo, Sicily, home base for the Bonanno crime family.
Author's collection

 

Bonanno capo Tommy Pitera and Celeste Lipari.
Courtesy of the DEA

 

Tommy Pitera
(third from left)
during prison visit with LCN associate.
Courtesy of the DEA

 

The FBN federal agents responsible for the first French Connection bust. Photograph taken in October 1960. On the far left is Jim Hunt's father, James Hunt; kneeling next to him is Frank Waters, his partner at the time; and seated on the desk is the boss of the New York FBN office, George Gaffney. Later, the FBN became known as the DEA.
Courtesy of the DEA

 

Pitera's driver's license.
Courtesy of the DEA

 

Jim Hunt shortly after graduation from the Drug Enforcement Administration's Academy at Quantico, Virginia, just prior to entering the Administration's elite, rough-and-ready Group 33. Winter 1983.
Courtesy of Jim Hunt

 

Tommy and Celeste during better days.
Courtesy of the DEA

 

Wrong Number cocktail lounge, after-hours club where Pitera and friends hung out.
Author's collection

 

The Esplande Club on Bay Fiftieth, frequented by Frank Gangi and Pitera's gang.
Author's collection

 

Tommy Pitera (
third from left
), Manny Maya (
second from left
), and Pitera associates, Brooklyn street.
Courtesy of the DEA

 

Pitera (
on extreme right
) with mob associates, Gravesend street, Brooklyn.
Courtesy of the DEA

 

Stash house in Gravesend, Brooklyn, where Frank Gangi and Billy Bright kept weight of marijuana, and where Arthur Guvenaro was murdered.
Author's collection