Frank Lucas, the black drug lord who ruled Harlem in the 1970s, was so discreet that the police didn't know who he was in 1971 when he decided to wear a $100,000 full-length chinchilla coat — to a Muhammad Ali boxing match. He later wrote that this was a “massive mistake. Apparently, Lucas’s coat caught the eye of law enforcement — who were surprised that he had better seats than Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra. As Lucas put it: “I left that fight a marked man.”
Lucas was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen. In 1976, Lucas was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 70 years in prison, but after becoming an informant, he and his family were placed in the Witness Protection Program. In 1984 he was convicted on drug charges, and was released from prison in 1991. In 2012, he pled guilty to attempting to cash a $17,000 federal disability benefit check twice, and because of his age and poor health, received sentence of five years' probation.
@timecaptales @fasc1nate Are we praising this guy who built and empire of the backs of drug addicted people?? What's wrong with this picture?
@timecaptales @fasc1nate It’s been proven that he never used coffins of dead service men to smuggle drugs into the US.
@timecaptales @fasc1nate A sell out to one’s own people for profit!! Zero respect!
@timecaptales @fasc1nate That was Ike Atkinson. He was the Mastermind and Genius behind the heroin trade. Lucas bought from him.
@timecaptales @fasc1nate My mans lived by his own laws lol