[1] Throughout the 1970s until 1981, Bouras headed the Greek Mob in Philadelphia, participating in mostly loansharking, extortion, methamphetamine trade, and illegal gambling.
Bouras directed the mob efficiently, and he carried out business with more prominent families such as the Philadelphia Mafia.
[2] The assassination took place just one day after the murder of another Greek mobster, Harry Boulas of Upper Darby.
A two-year FBI investigation into a cocaine ring run by the Greek mafia in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. resulted in charges being filed in August 1987.
The reason for this dormant period could be traced back to the leaders' loss in the 1980s mob war in Philadelphia, which was initiated after Martineos' assassination.