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Figure with expertise on Lebanese communities used by DEA for controlled heroin deliveries; relative of FIDCO's Maurice Ghanem. |
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-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 in Lebanon, and was a senior DEA official working with Michael T. Hurley.1
Footnotes
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Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩︎