Major participant in French Connection heroin scandal. Cited as a major heroin dealer during the late 1960's & 1970's. The French Connection was an infamous scheme through which the illegal drug heroin was smuggled from Turkey to France and then to the United States, culminating in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it provided the vast majority of the heroin consumed in the United States. ... Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...
Father of famous entertainer Art Loria. Grandfather of entertainer, athlete & movie actor Daniel Loria
SOURCES: "The Heroin Train" - Newsday of Long Island Pulizter Prize Winning Series 1974
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