The Mob Files

016 - Frank Lucas

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This week's episode is about Frank Lucas. Lucas ran a massive heroin operation in Harlem in the 1960s and 70s. He imported his product from Southeast Asia to get around the Mafia's stranglehold on the market in New York. 

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  • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/obituaries/frank-lucas-dead.html
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/how-drug-dealers-used-the-us-military-to-smuggle-heroin-2018-3
  • https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/the-return-of-frank-lucas.html

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