interesting, in depth article about the cocaine smuggling business - GoFuckYourself.com

Melvin the Dude · 09-27-2004, 10:04 PM

very intresting !

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ews/steve.html

mrthumbs · 09-27-2004, 10:23 PM

he would be a great gfy keyboard warrior.. Lens should invite this guy.

NinjaSteve · 09-27-2004, 10:28 PM

"You've got cars sitting outside in the parking lot with $2 million, $3 million in the trunk, money in the vault, and transfers going out. It's very complicated shit at times. "

Melvin the Dude · 09-28-2004, 03:55 PM

For example, once I flew down to Cali to meet a client that owed me $2 million. Before we arranged the $2 million, I had to get the okay from his brother. And so I flew to Cali, Colombia. I get there and I have a room. I stay the first night. It was great. Hey, I'm going to Colombia and this is exciting. I'm young and I'm getting a lot of money and this is really cool stuff. This is what you dream about in law school.

So I get there. The second day they pick me up, take me in a cab, put me in another car, put this black thing around my eyes like a bandage, and tie it. And they go, "We're sorry. I hope you understand." Not a problem. Something in me knew. . . I was never really scared. I was an attorney trying to help them. Why would they hurt me? And they put me in a car. They go, "Now don't get worried. We're going put you in a helicopter and you're going to hear the thing and we're going to go to my uncle's ranch." I said, "Okay. Fine." About 15, 20 minutes later, I land and I'm on this beautiful ranch. I don't even know why they call it a ranch. It looked like a mansion. It had like a little miniature zoo and it was just fabulous. It was like the "Lives of the Rich and Famous," and more. Just incredibly beautiful homes. But they call them "ranches."

I met the people there and pulled out my briefcase, pulled out the indictments, went through the photos, through the evidence. Meanwhile the person's just sitting there. Very unemotional, just looking at you and studying you. They know they got you. You're out in the middle of nowhere. If you're a fed or something, you're never going to go back, but maybe they'll let you go back. They're not going to say anything.

So I stayed there for about four, five days, and then went back. They said, "If you come through with what you say and you give that result, we'll pay you $2 million." And lo and behold, my whole thing with this client at that particular time--he was a very high person with cocaine in the archives of the US Attorney's Office, in fact I think they were partners of Pablo Escobar--he had already had an attorney in Beverly Hills. He had already cut a deal for ten years. There were nine or twelve of them--I can't really remember--in the case and it was a package deal, which they all must sign or nobody signs and they all go to trial. It's a package deal. It's not individual.

And he told me "Any year you get me less than ten years, I'll give you a million dollars, up to five million." And I said, "Okay." I didn't think I could get him five years off, but I'm sure I could get him something. And if not, I didn't lose anything. I got a beautiful trip. And lo and behold, the day of pleading comes. And I hold out. So everybody's totally pissed off, including the US Attorney, the judge. Everybody's going berserk. Now you're talking nine trials--one trial with nine co-defendants, nine top attorneys. You're talking a month, six weeks, a two-month trial, for sure. Nobody wants that. The US Attorney's Office is just, like, yelling at me. Finally, we agree upon eight years. So everybody got 10 years and my client got eight. He was happier than could be, and they owed me $2 million. And this same client later on facilitated me in my other ventures. The big boys had talked with each other inside MCC that I could be trusted. So now I was flying to Culiacan in Mexico.

09-27-2004, 10:04 PM	#1
Melvin the Dude Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 844	interesting, in depth article about the cocaine smuggling business very intresting ! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ews/steve.html

09-27-2004, 10:28 PM	#3
NinjaSteve Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 11,089	"You've got cars sitting outside in the parking lot with $2 million, $3 million in the trunk, money in the vault, and transfers going out. It's very complicated shit at times. " __________________ ...

09-27-2004, 10:23 PM	#2
mrthumbs salad tossing sig guy Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: mrthumbs*gmail.com Posts: 11,702	he would be a great gfy keyboard warrior.. Lens should invite this guy.

09-28-2004, 03:55 PM	#4
Melvin the Dude Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 844	For example, once I flew down to Cali to meet a client that owed me $2 million. Before we arranged the $2 million, I had to get the okay from his brother. And so I flew to Cali, Colombia. I get there and I have a room. I stay the first night. It was great. Hey, I'm going to Colombia and this is exciting. I'm young and I'm getting a lot of money and this is really cool stuff. This is what you dream about in law school. So I get there. The second day they pick me up, take me in a cab, put me in another car, put this black thing around my eyes like a bandage, and tie it. And they go, "We're sorry. I hope you understand." Not a problem. Something in me knew. . . I was never really scared. I was an attorney trying to help them. Why would they hurt me? And they put me in a car. They go, "Now don't get worried. We're going put you in a helicopter and you're going to hear the thing and we're going to go to my uncle's ranch." I said, "Okay. Fine." About 15, 20 minutes later, I land and I'm on this beautiful ranch. I don't even know why they call it a ranch. It looked like a mansion. It had like a little miniature zoo and it was just fabulous. It was like the "Lives of the Rich and Famous," and more. Just incredibly beautiful homes. But they call them "ranches." I met the people there and pulled out my briefcase, pulled out the indictments, went through the photos, through the evidence. Meanwhile the person's just sitting there. Very unemotional, just looking at you and studying you. They know they got you. You're out in the middle of nowhere. If you're a fed or something, you're never going to go back, but maybe they'll let you go back. They're not going to say anything. So I stayed there for about four, five days, and then went back. They said, "If you come through with what you say and you give that result, we'll pay you $2 million." And lo and behold, my whole thing with this client at that particular time--he was a very high person with cocaine in the archives of the US Attorney's Office, in fact I think they were partners of Pablo Escobar--he had already had an attorney in Beverly Hills. He had already cut a deal for ten years. There were nine or twelve of them--I can't really remember--in the case and it was a package deal, which they all must sign or nobody signs and they all go to trial. It's a package deal. It's not individual. And he told me "Any year you get me less than ten years, I'll give you a million dollars, up to five million." And I said, "Okay." I didn't think I could get him five years off, but I'm sure I could get him something. And if not, I didn't lose anything. I got a beautiful trip. And lo and behold, the day of pleading comes. And I hold out. So everybody's totally pissed off, including the US Attorney, the judge. Everybody's going berserk. Now you're talking nine trials--one trial with nine co-defendants, nine top attorneys. You're talking a month, six weeks, a two-month trial, for sure. Nobody wants that. The US Attorney's Office is just, like, yelling at me. Finally, we agree upon eight years. So everybody got 10 years and my client got eight. He was happier than could be, and they owed me $2 million. And this same client later on facilitated me in my other ventures. The big boys had talked with each other inside MCC that I could be trusted. So now I was flying to Culiacan in Mexico.