Monday, June 23, 2008
News Add It Up: Cocaine and champagne
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Amount of drug money former state Rep. Ron Sailor told an undercover FBI agent he was willing to launder: $300,000
Amount the agent, posing as a coke dealer, eventually gave Sailor: $375,000
Months after Sailor agreed to cooperate with authorities that he illegally obtained a $250,000 loan using his church as collateral: 3
Maximum years Sailor could spend in prison as a result of his June 17 guilty plea in Atlanta federal court: 80
Minimum years the Black Mafia Family’s third-in-command will serve as a result of his June 16 cocaine-conspiracy conviction in Atlanta federal court: 20
Amount in drug money that a witness in the BMF trial claimed to have counted in a single sitting: $6 million
Cost of a bottle of Cristal champagne that BMF members favored while partying in Atlanta clubs, according to another witness: $600
Months by which former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell hoped to reduce his 30-month federal tax-evasion sentence by seeking counseling for being a champagne-aholic: 4
Minimum number of witnesses — including Campbell’s witness — who told federal investigators that Campbell did not drink: 2
Number who told them Campbell did drink: 0
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. District Court Atlanta, U.S. District Court Miami
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$600 for a bottle of Cris at the club? Shit, like to know what club that is at. You'd have to bring your own to get that price I'm pretty sure. When I stopped at a place called Pearson's in Buckhead while going through ATL, they had bottles of Cris for cheap, but that's not a club. Club's usually want like $1,600+ just for a 1999 bottle.
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