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category: "Organized Crime"
tags:
  - PROMIS
  - Person
summary: "Figure with expertise on Lebanese communities used by DEA for controlled heroin deliveries; relative of FIDCO's Maurice Ghanem."
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[[Fred Ghanem]] was a figure with special knowledge of Lebanese communities in Detroit, Houston, and Los Angeles. His expertise led to a noticeable increase in [[DEA|DEA]]-controlled deliveries of heroin into the [[United States]]. He was identified as a relative (either a brother or cousin) of [[Maurice Ghanem]], who was involved with [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]] in [[Lebanon]], and was a senior [[DEA|DEA]] official working with [[Michael T. Hurley]].[^1]

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### Footnotes

[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.