Copolla Was Kidnapped By a Friend and Not An Anonymous Drug Dealer.
This all occurred BEFORE Tom became a lowly Body Guard for this Drug and Porn
King!
Coppola
riches mostly illegal, feds say For 13 years, police kept eye on his career
Author:
CHRISTENSEN,
MIKE Mike Christensen Staff Writer STAFF Date: May 19, 1986 Publication:
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/1 Word
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For more than 13 years,
law enforcement authorities followed the career of Carl Louis Coppola. But
when he was kidnapped in 1982 by a longtime friend and when the friend's body
turned up six months later dumped on a Florida playground, the investigation
began in earnest. Last week, a federal strike force hauled in its net - a
grand jury racketeering indictment of a dozen people including Coppola, two
associates in his Jilly's restaurant business, a former bodyguard and several
alleged