 For many years law enforcement had believed Salamone to be dead, but his name reappeared in 1982 during police investigations into heroin trafficking and money laundering with Michele Zaza and the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan.Salamone was part of the Sicilian supply ring for the so-called Pizza Connection.One of the main organisers in the United States was Giuseppe Ganci, a member of Salamone’ s Mafia family.