Word: kingpins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without doubt, he was the most pampered prisoner in all Colombia. Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin cocaine cartel who surrendered 13 months ago in exchange for a promise of no extradition to the U.S., was locked up in a suite in a luxurious prison of his own design in his hometown of Envigado. By most accounts, Escobar continued to run his billion-dollar business from behind the walls. So when Colombia's director of prisons and a deputy minister of justice entered the jail last week to tell Escobar he was being transferred to a harsher...
Love or loathe the album's characters, they are easily recognizable and convincingly presented -- everyone from the sweet-talking phony on Caffeine and the suffering farmer in Smaller and Smaller down to the drug-slinging kingpin in Crack Hitler. That's what makes Angel Dust poignant, blistering and nightmarishly real...
...tone of his narration abruptly shifts in the second half of the movie, after Santana is paroled. The protagonist resumes his role as drug kingpin, but the poetic voice-overs are gone. Santana struggles with everything. He clashes with rival gangs and with formerly loyal lieutenants like J.D., a "half-breed" played in old-time gangster style by William Forsythe...
...committee's ruling offered no guidance as to what is legal and illegal. All five helped Keating and all five accepted money during the same period of time. But only Cranston, who received $982,000 from the S&L kingpin, failed to observe a respectful amount of time between service rendered and money collected. DeConcini hosted a high-level meeting at which he outlined Keating's demands, which gave an "appearance of being improper" in the eyes of the ethics panel. Glenn, who arranged a luncheon for Keating with then Speaker Jim Wright, was deemed merely to have "exercised poor...
While Bennett's flamboyant life-style attracted attention, the police had nothing solid on him. Villabona, however, became a bit too bold. In 1987 he lent a house he owned in Westlake Village to a cartel kingpin. When Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the house in pursuit of that operator, they found records showing that Villabona and his Danish wife Helle Nielsen had seven bank accounts in Copenhagen. Later, the unsuspecting Villabona twice flew to Denmark, where he made hundreds of telephone calls to conduct his coke business. So, on one occasion, did Bennett...