Pizzeria Owner Ate Rival, Was Ndrangheta's U.S. Cocaine Connection
The Gigliottis, husband and wife, was the U.S. connection between the Ndrangheta and South American drug cartels. A savage freelancing mobster arrested in New York for his part in a transcontinental cocaine trafficking network boasted to his wife that he ate the heart and kidney of a rival who owed him money, it is alleged . Gregorio Gigliotti was the U.S. broker between the Ndrangheta , considered Italy's richest and most brutal organized crime syndicate, and the South American drug cartels. Despite reports to the contrary, it doesn't appear the New York families are directly implicated in this case. Longtime Calabria-based anti-Mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri said the 'ndrangheta has for some time been beefing up its presence in the United States: "In New York, right under the Brooklyn Bridge."