Louis Balestrieri: Operation Wasteland, Deep Undercover Documentary on Organized Crime

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Growing up in Brooklyn the Park Slope Area and later Massapequa
Park he was associating with children of connected guys. Living
in a cop family, he tells his humbled opinion between the police
and organized crime. Learning to be loyal and respectful from mob
guys and by the age of 21 he was driving a new Lincoln and
hustling. Stories of Roy DeMeo and him being an opportunistic
criminal. 


Did any of his previous jobs help him with being undercover? This
transitions into how he landed being the Asian Undercover for
China White Heroin and the enormity of the drug problem in NYC.
Stories of being undercover include having a knife to his
throat. 


The Italian Bread Industry which was protected as he explains
leads into Operation Wasteland where he was placed in a unit
called, The Bad New Bears. Quick trip into martial arts
background and back to the private sanitation industry where over
30 arrests of mob associates, soldiers, & capos of the
largest organized crime case in NYPD & Manhattan District
history. His explanation of why there it was no confidence in
this team. What working wiretap is really like leads into a story
that landed him in trouble. 


The waste disposal industry before Operation Wasteland and how
the wise guys were controlling it. Everyone was benefiting from
it, but was Mayor Guiliani?  A story about how he got a
particular envelope from a meeting that broke the case open. The
new laws that were made due to the case and The Operation
Wasteland Documentary. Ending with the insurance business is
organized crime!


 


Louis Balestrieri Links:


LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-a-balestrieri-1543b213/


IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15022308/


 


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