The case, which would later be referred to as ‘The Pizza Connection’, lead to 18 people from multiple gangs being convicted. Their drug smuggling operation would have brought an estimated $1.6billion – the equivalent of $3.9billion (£3.1billion)were also able to seize large amounts of cash, stashes of weapons and vitally important documents. The information they discovered would help authorities to finally break the Mafia’s infamous ‘code of silence’ and gain a valuable insight into their highly secretive world.