When this whole #PizzaGate story hit, I couldn't help but remember back to the late 80's when a large number of Pizza shops in the NYC metro area were found to be involved with a huge heroin distribution ring. I actually met some of the low level dealers who had sourced their wares from these places. Here is an old NYTimes story on it, as well as the Wikipedia entry on what happened.
The reason why I think this is important is because it shows how, in the case, Pizza Shops have been in the past found colluding with some very bad people.. How did this happen? Why does it happen? Why Pizza?
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/03/nyregion/17-found-guilty-in-pizza-trial-of-a-drug-ring.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Connection_Trial
Good luck..
dem6nic ago
Rudy Giuliani was Chief Federal Prosecutor during these trials, whose family was/is mafioso, if that adds to anything.
BethesdaDC ago
Bucks, the other restaurant next door sells "Oysters". Urban dictionary says oysters is another name for the drug OXYCOTIN
urbandictionary.com
smokemirrors ago
When I first heard about PizzaGate, I found it puzzling that everyone defaulted to 'chld prn.' I thought, anything but that. Heroin, coke, pot, ecstasy, weapons, Art, Eastern European hookers, B-List Hollywood soap stars...Pizza and its condiments, could have been euphemisms for any of those things.
teknoPolitikNews ago
Great point.. The fact that Pizza is pretty much the one food that is "International".. No matter where you are, you can always find a pizza place! So its a great cover for an international network.. its an international food.
ghost_marauder ago
My guess is because pizza guys deliver. Not hard to make a pizza and put a small bag of heroin into the box. Also, not hard to launder money through a pizza place by cooking the books (You just say you sold more than you did, oops I lost my invoice receipts, guess you can't guess how many I actually made).
But, currently with how few people actually pay attention to their neighbors and their block you could easily drop a kid off with a pizza delivery car (especially if you took the topper off) and not be noticed. It's ridiculous to try and think of a more connected local transport organization than your local pizza shop.
derram ago
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