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Fact, Fiction and the French Connection
Webinar
Fact, Fiction and the French Connection
Start
01/27/2025 - 5:30 PM
End
01/27/2025 - 6:45 PM
COURSE DETAILS
In a matter of fact surpassing fiction, the 1971 Academy Award-winner The French Connection was more than a highly-successful thriller. The film depicted one of the most evocative drug busts in the history of the NYPD.
The movie, and Robin Moore’s best-selling non-fiction account of the same name, were based on the real-life exploits of NYPD detective Eddie Egan and his partner Sonny Grosso. In 1962, Egan and Grosso made a spectacular drug bust that resulted in the seizure of 120 pounds of pure heroin with a street value of $32 million.
The cunning French godfather who mastermind the scheme to import such a large cache of narcotics from Marseilles to New York, Jean Jehan, escaped justice.
Most telling of all, months before the Academy Awards ceremony, a hundred pounds of the heroin that had been seized ten years earlier were taken from an NYPD property clerk’s office never to be seen again.
Fact, Fiction, and the French Connection chronicles the history of the underlying crime, the legal machinations behinds the scenes to get the book published and the film made, and the rather ambiguous legal, ethical and cultural legacy surrounding the French Connection case and its resulting literary properties.
FACULTY
Rudy Carmenaty, Deputy Commissioner, Nassau County Department of Social Services
CLE CREDITS
1.5 NY Credits: 1 Skills; 0.5 Ethics; Transitional and Non-transitional; 1.5 NJ Credits: 1.5 General
GENERAL INFORMATION
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