User:Shulinp123/Frank Coppola (mobster)

Expelled to Italy
Both Italian and American authorities viewed Coppola as the boss of the Mafia network located in Sicily that is related to various crimes in the United States. In 1948 he was expelled from the United States and sent back to Italy. His powerful associates didn’t stop their activities as Coppola was expelled from the country. They were still actively involved in underworld crimes. Some of them, however, were also facing deportation. When he was not in jail, he had enormous wealth, because he invested all the money in real estate. In Italy, he allegedly dealt with clean business, however according to the judicial authorities, he was at the center of large drug trafficking operations. In 1952, police raids found drugs in his residence in the countryside.[5] In addition to this discovery of drugs, police identified him the “top man” in the ring broken up with the help of American federal agents.[5] Moreover, Predawn raids from Bologna to Sicily arrested Mr. Coppola and 16 others as suspects in a trans-Atlantic narcotics racket, who were released by a Palermo court for insufficient evidence after three years.