Join us as we cover the rise and fall of the Black Mafia Family, AKA BMF. We discuss the rise of BMF and the fall of it s leader, 6ix9ine, and how it all began.
00:05:09.980BMF was a drug trafficking and money laundering organization in the United States.
00:05:12.940The Black Mafia was founded in 1985 in Southwest Detroit by brothers Demetrius, Edward, Big Meech, Flannery, and by 2000 had established cocaine distribution sales throughout the United States through their Los Angeles-based drug source and direct links to Mexican drug cartels.
00:05:29.000The Black Mafia operated from two main hubs, one in Atlanta for distribution run by Demetrius, and one in Los Angeles to handle incoming shipments from Mexico run by Terry Flannery.
00:08:52.000The DEA was the lead federal agency in this investigation, and they did quite a bit of work, which we're going to see here in a second.
00:08:56.940200 pounds of cocaine, 100 pounds of marijuana, and as much as $1.5 million in cash were allegedly found at his home in California.
00:09:07.320Agents say in this whole operation, they seized 6 kilos of cocaine, 80 pounds of marijuana, and seized more than a million dollars in cash and in assets.
00:09:16.480We expect to learn more about this operation in the coming days.
00:09:19.380After years of covert law enforcement investigations, it was revealed that BMF was actually a cold-calculated criminal enterprise.
00:09:29.580Over the course of 15 years, the crew had made over $270 million in trafficking cocaine around the country.
00:09:37.000As the investigation unfolded, over 150 members of BMF were indicted, and the Black Mafia family was named one of the largest domestic drug distribution organizations in American history.
00:09:50.080There's a reason why Rick Ross in the song Blow Money, Fazzy goes, I think I'm Big Meech, huh, Larry Hoover.
00:09:55.660Guys, these dudes were out here really selling a lot of drugs and using the music business and a record label as a front for their criminal activity.
00:13:22.740And the reason why Atlanta is so big, guys, is because Atlanta covers the entire east coast of the United States.
00:13:31.280So once the drug's coming through Mexico, through here, right, we'll follow my mouse, into Texas, into San Antonio, right around here, goes east, bam, ends up in Atlanta.
00:13:41.120Because from Atlanta, you can take it to the Midwest like Chicago, you can take it to Georgia or southern Georgia or Florida, you can move it into the Carolinas, you can move it northeast into obviously New York, Boston, all of New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio.
00:13:58.440That is why Atlanta is so critical because it's a perfect transition point from a drug trafficking perspective to get your product into anywhere else on the east coast of the United States.
00:14:08.480And let's keep, I'll keep it honest with y'all, well, not even honest, this is the truth.
00:14:12.440Most of America's population, guys, is east, okay?
00:14:16.440It's actually not west, contrary to a popular belief.
00:14:18.800Most of the U.S. population is concentrated east, this way, all right?
00:14:23.360Because you guys got to remember, this is all desert out here in the west, right?
00:14:26.600Outside of a few major cities, a lot of these areas are uninhabitable, right?
00:14:31.540So that's how drug trafficking works in the United States from an overall view.
00:14:35.240But 9 out of 10 times when drugs end up in Atlanta, it comes from Mexican drug trafficking cartels that control Texas a lot of the times.
00:14:43.580But you're going to see with this organization, they played it a little bit different.
00:14:46.180But Atlanta is a big transition drug hub.
00:14:48.700All right, let's get back into the documentary.
00:29:58.500He had a bigger-than-life persona, and he liked portraying that.
00:30:02.180Terry, Southwest T, was the younger brother and had no interest in the attention.
00:30:07.040Seldom seen, he was the architect of the operation, the planner, the mastermind.
00:30:11.600Terry was understated, very protective, and very shrewd.
00:30:16.720Terry, on the other hand, was a businessman.
00:30:19.900He was every bit as influential and competent as Demetrius, but tended to like to try to fly under the radar and stay low-key and low-profile a little more.
00:31:19.120More than likely what that is, guys, is him saying, yo, I need a spot cleaned out so that I can go ahead and bring some drugs over to Stash, okay?
00:31:28.380Because normally when you're doing with drug trafficking, guys, the drugs got to get imported to the United States.
00:31:33.200Once they get imported to the United States, they need to be brought immediately to a Stash house to be held, to be sold to other local distributors, okay?
00:31:41.100So, like, let's say you get 100 kilos of cocaine that come into the United States, right?
00:32:00.540And then from there, the big load of hundreds of kilos that came from the border have to get distributed and sent to major cities in and out.
00:32:08.260So, this guy right here is probably very close to the actual smuggling event where he's trying to now figure out a place to put the drugs out.
00:32:57.440Now, there's these phone calls that show that I might have been involved in this conspiracy, etc.
00:33:01.400And this happens a lot of times, guys, in drug trafficking organizations where the boss has tried to insulate themselves from the criminal activity and tell them, you contact this guy.
00:33:08.640This is your dude that deals with X, Y, Z.
00:33:11.120So, in other words, he needs to talk to the stash house operator who is more than likely this guy, Arnold.
00:33:16.300But this dude can't get a hold of Arnold.
00:35:01.380But in a lot of these neighborhoods where money's scarce, opportunity's scarce, most of those people, if you called them on it and said, how can you allow this stuff to happen right outside of your home?
00:35:11.600Most of them would turn around and say to you, well, how can you criticize me for this when I have nothing?
00:35:16.020Terry and Demetrius Flannery grew up in the hardscrabble area of southwest Detroit, right up against the cities of Ecorse and River Rouge.
00:35:51.480You get the Flannery's back in the 80s, you get a couple guys who are kind of independent traffickers out there moving kilos and making a buck,
00:35:58.660but they don't have this monstrous organization and don't have the leadership skills.
00:36:02.700Okay, according to Forbes, guys, I'm looking at this right now.
00:36:05.720Detroit is the sixth most dangerous city in the United States.
00:36:31.840And I also want you to notice Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, right, as well as Mobile, Alabama, and Birmingham aren't that far from where?
00:36:43.220Interstate Highway 10, which I just described, is a big drug trafficking highway.
00:40:57.160Little do they know that the DEA caught every single second of that conversation.
00:41:02.700And the thing is, even though they didn't find drugs, guys, the fact that he called them to say they didn't find shit, et cetera,
00:41:08.340and I don't smoke weed in my car, but they searched me, that can be used as evidence to show knowledge that, yo, the police are on me.
00:41:14.600And I guarantee you, at this point, they probably started to be a little bit suspicious that they had searched the car knowing that there's no way that the same marijuana would be there,
00:41:23.900because clearly they don't smoke in a vehicle used to transport drugs, because that would be very stupid.
00:41:29.580The police probably will cause to search your vehicle, and that's the last thing they want.
00:41:32.460So they probably got put on radar, or maybe not, the way they were speaking on the phone, but regardless, the DEA was listening.
00:41:40.220Then you're going to be a robin' ass crew.
00:41:42.420If you got a real boss who know how to sacrifice and take the bad along with the good and show his crew how to be men, then this is what you get.
00:46:19.640And unless you know exactly what they're talking about, you might not be able to understand exactly what's being said.
00:46:25.380Prior to the PA boys' take down, law enforcement had perceived the brothers as mid-level traffickers, small-time players in a much larger stage.
00:46:35.660In the mid-90s, these guys are at times delivering $200,000, $300,000 to individuals who are sending that money down to St. Louis and on to Colombian sources.
00:46:48.480But as the DEA started to build contacts and sources, an entirely new image was coming to light.
00:46:54.360What happens is in December of 2003, early 2004, Bob Bell, the other DEA agents, they start contacting their sources to try and get as much information as they can on the Flannery brothers.
00:47:05.880And, you know, with cases like this, guys, where you're trafficking a lot of drugs, obviously there's going to be money.
00:47:10.440It's always great to bring an IRS agent like this guy on board to help you follow the money.
00:47:15.060Because when you follow the money, that will get you to the main top guys.
00:47:18.040Now they start hearing stories about how Terry's got a mansion out in California, Meech has got places down in Atlanta, they're driving all these high-end vehicles.
00:47:27.460That's what you're hearing from sources.
00:47:29.460For years, Terry and Demetrius Flannery attempted to live like ghosts.
00:47:33.380Going back probably 10 years' worth of income tax return records, there were no records of them ever having filed.
00:47:39.800Along with that, they each had about at least five or six aliases and had that many different fictitious driver's licenses in several different states.
00:47:51.320From the mid-90s to early 2000, Meech and Terry went from a $1 million a year business to a $1 million a week business.
00:47:59.840The only way to achieve that kind of growth in the drug trade is to increase...
00:48:06.280And I'm going to go ahead and put the inflation calculator here, but that's probably close to maybe $100 million nowadays.
00:48:12.260Increase the supply of your product, and that usually means cutting out middlemen and getting closer to the source.
00:48:18.020When you look at the industry with the drugs and how the movement of drugs come here in the States, the American blacks don't really control that trade.
00:48:25.840Demetrius Flannery went out to California.
00:48:28.160He just went out there looking for sources.
00:48:30.080He hooked up with one of the co-defendants, Wayne Joyner, a California guy who knew some Mexicans.
00:48:37.160Meech and Terry may never have risen above middle-class dealers had they not met Wayne Joyner.
00:48:42.000He became one of the Flannery brothers' key people.
00:48:46.440Wayne Joyner was a drug trafficker from California who had good connections.
00:50:25.340I was talking about meth and, you know, heroin, etc.
00:50:28.380All those drugs are typically nowadays are coming in through Mexico.
00:50:32.360Provided Meech and Terry with almost an unlimited supply of uncut cocaine for a substantially lower price than they could get from any U.S. distributors.
00:50:42.480They were purchasing at the time for about $15.5 per kilo.
00:50:47.140And the BMF organization was moving at least 600 kilos a month.
00:50:51.500This allowed them to literally corner the market.
00:50:58.180Not every even top level drug dealer in a major city ever gets to that point.
00:51:03.180You have to have something special to get the trust of the cartels.
00:51:06.480They expanded their enterprise, establishing hubs in 11 states to unload their product.
00:51:17.640Terry moved to California to receive the bulk shipments.
00:51:21.960And Meech moved to Atlanta, which was an ideal distribution hub for all of Eastern America.
00:51:27.160And there's about 10 different highway routes that you can take out of the city to get out of here.
00:51:33.420And that route going from Florida all the way up through to New York, Philadelphia, and Boston,
00:51:38.820you've got to go through Atlanta to get to those places.
00:51:40.980It's just physically, it's a great place to be.
00:51:44.540And also, it's a big enough city and already has enough of a drug culture of its own to provide cover for those people who are moving through the city itself.
00:51:52.020Atlanta was definitely becoming a strategic location for the drug trade, but the culture attracted Meech, too.
00:52:05.000By the late 90s, Atlanta had become a hotbed for activity for the hip-hop industry.
00:52:10.560Rappers were playing the streets with mixtapes.
00:52:13.660And famed producers like Jermaine Dupree, OutKast, Goody Mob, and Ludacris were attracting national attention.
00:52:20.240Guys, back then, Atlanta was not on the map like that, but Atlanta started to definitely take off in the early 2000s.
00:54:01.040We could make buys from the underlings, but as far as getting somebody into the organization itself, it wasn't going to happen.
00:54:09.000All right, guys, when he says make buys, what he means is you get an informant, buy drugs from a member of the organization,
00:54:14.360work your way up the totem pole, or try to introduce an undercover agent.
00:54:17.200But what he's saying is that this organization was so tight that they wouldn't let outsiders in.
00:54:22.200But early on, Bob Bell and his team got a lucky break.
00:54:25.560Using confidential informants enabled the investigation.
00:54:29.500They were able to identify a phone number for a VMF manager named Benjamin Johnson.
00:54:34.480Shortly after, they successfully got a court-ordered wiretap to listen in on his phone calls.
00:54:39.560After only a few short weeks, the Detroit...
00:54:41.800And then from there, they start with someone on a lower level, listen to his phone, identify other conspirators in the drug trafficking conspiracy,
00:54:50.980and then bam, then they start writing wiretaps for their phones as well and working their way up the ladder.
00:54:55.500This is how you do federal investigations, guys.
00:59:50.640I mean, I had to admire their ingenuity.
00:59:53.640They had real strict rules about like nobody who's below this level of management can even
00:59:58.940know how to open the traps that they had installed in these cars to access the drugs.
01:00:04.320I mean, which would basically be like, okay, put the car in reverse, turn on defrost, hold a magnet up to the dash and turn on the windshield wiper.
01:00:13.860These traps were high tech, very sophisticated.
01:00:31.960Well, we were able to seize a Hummer limo and notwithstanding the best efforts of law enforcement to find the secret panels, we managed to miss it.
01:00:42.100I think a year or so later, the man who bought the limo managed to find a million dollars in it.
01:00:46.480On a trip to L.A. in 1999, Meech's dream of breaking into the music industry became possible when he was introduced to a young, aspiring artist named Parima McKnight, who was rapping under the name Blue Da Vinci.
01:01:06.620They shared a common vision and Meech took an immediate affection to the young artist.
01:01:12.080Shortly after, the two founded BMF Entertainment.
01:01:14.800For the entire lifespan of the record label, Blue Da Vinci was the only artist signed.
01:01:20.380What we're focusing on right now is Blue Da Vinci.
01:01:24.060I believe that most labels take so much time off and focus on so many artists that you can never get the realness out of the one artist because you're focusing on 10 or 20 artists.
01:01:37.060That's why all our independent focus is on what Blue Da Vinci does.
01:01:52.340And just so you guys know, the reason why he was able to be all in on one artist like that and no other record label can necessarily do that is keep in mind, he had the drug money coming in.
01:02:02.740So it didn't matter if Blue Da Vinci blew or not.
01:02:05.600He was just using his stage act and this record label slash entertainment company, quote unquote, to launder the money and not make it look like they're doing other things.
01:02:17.140So, of course, you know, he could afford to put all his eggs in one basket.
01:02:23.000The more negative he goes, even the better because he's able to burn through that money and show that is being used in a legit business.
01:02:31.220The business that they chose to hide behind to use as cover was also an industry that was critical for improving their reputation and providing them with the social capital that they needed.
01:02:52.880And it created loyalty, it created a mystique, it created interest, and it provided a fantastic cover for them.
01:05:20.860With daily images of cartel-related bloodshed being broadcast from the southern borders and gang violence running rampant in our own cities,
01:05:30.100we have an immediate prejudice that the drug trade goes hand-in-hand with violence.
01:05:36.620Meach and Terry took a different approach to extend their reach.
01:05:42.820Yeah, this would definitely be considered a gang.
01:05:45.780Like, anytime you're committing, you know, criminal activity in the furtherance of an organization,
01:05:50.040they can label you a gang or you're open to RICO statute-type laws.
01:05:55.520Upon entering new territories, they presented themselves as businessmen.
01:05:59.820And through diplomacy, they created alliances with existing criminal entities.
01:06:04.360They kept their eye on the ball because, you know, you get enough bodies laying around and law enforcement attention is going to come your way probably faster than when there's not that type of activity.
01:06:15.840In a way, that's what made them so successful because they never engaged in a lot of violence so that the attention was never drawn to them in the way that it might be to another group of people.
01:06:23.720That smart violence causes issues and police attention, which, you know, will make you get arrested and lose the money.
01:19:13.240He ran all kinds of spreadsheets and reports for both Meech and Terry.
01:19:17.480Bill Marshall is the kind of guy that drug traffickers need.
01:19:20.460He knew how to work the financial side of things and obtain loans on cars and homes and to cover up the source and ownership of those items.
01:19:28.280Without a guy like Bill Marshall, they cannot enjoy the fruits of their labor.
01:20:10.320The vehicle had been obtained through Bill Marshall's business called Exquisite Empire, which was based out of Atlanta.
01:20:16.620As police searched the crime scene, they found a key notebook that contained obvious drug records of the trafficking organization, including associates' names and phone numbers and straw buyers' identities.
01:20:29.900That is an investigator's dream, guys, to find the actual ledger with all the notes that show everything.
01:20:35.480Remember, guys, this is before the Internet age, really, you know.
01:20:38.420I mean, Internet was around, but smartphones weren't around where you can punch all this stuff into your notepad and have it encrypted and locked.
01:20:43.920But people had to write it down somewhere and be able to keep track to pay off suppliers, couriers, stash house operators, et cetera.
01:20:49.780You've got to have your numbers in line to know what's coming in, what's going out, and what you've got.
01:20:54.400The shooting at Doc Marshall's house was Atlanta's first taste of the Black Mafia family, but it was not its last.
01:21:01.940Meech himself made headlines two months later for his involvement in a high-profile double homicide.
01:21:06.940On the night of November 12, 2004, Big Meech was treated in the ER for a gunshot wound to his buttocks.
01:21:15.200Earlier that night, there was a shootout outside of club chaos.
01:22:27.060So they couldn't prove the murder, but they ended up getting something even better.
01:22:31.160Another ledger showing that he's also involved in drug trafficking.
01:22:34.460Remember, guys, when the police search your home, if they have a search warrant to be in the home and they find other evidence of other crimes, they're able to pursue that.
01:22:42.060So now they're able to link their brother's ledger to match the two brothers' different ledgers and establish that they both are running a drug trafficking organization.
01:22:53.940This would come forward, and as Jones was shot from behind, there was not enough evidence to maintain the charges.
01:23:41.860You know, so for every grandmother whose grocery bill they paid for at Publix, there was three grandsons lying in the hospital somewhere with broken bones.
01:23:49.980Atlanta had become a battleground, and the violence seemed to swirl around BMF and its associates.
01:24:15.420So, I didn't know that the people that tried to kill Gucci Mane, I knew they were associates of Jeezy, but I didn't know that they had ties with Black Mafia, too.
01:24:57.320As more and more attention was being brought upon the organization, Meech became openly defiant in believing his hip-hop company could blur the line between art and reality.
01:25:13.320It's probably no secret to them that we were after him.
01:25:16.680They thought they were untouchable, and they were taunting us.
01:25:26.900I don't know why somebody let him in the room to see what's going on anyway, man.
01:25:30.940In 2004, he even commissioned billboards in Atlanta, claiming the world was BMFs, a throwback to Scarface's mantra.
01:25:39.560The billboards was when enough was enough.
01:25:41.880That billboard was always a bone of contention with the district attorney himself.
01:25:45.640The fact that they could just be so out there, he was very determined.
01:25:49.580Imagine you're a big-ass drug trafficker with a billboard trying to show that, oh, yeah, the world is ours, and, you know, we're a music label.
01:25:57.440And these guys know in the back of their minds that these guys are selling hundreds of kilos of cocaine, man.
01:26:02.220So that makes them want to get you even more, bro.
01:26:04.920And so he took the handcuffs off of us.
01:26:07.000Meech was put under constant surveillance, and an Atlanta-based task force was assigned to topple the family.
01:26:14.140They used similar strategies of the Detroit DEA and got a wiretap on a low-level dealer.
01:26:19.860Once the wires were running, they were manned 24-7.
01:26:22.680I don't believe that we ever came off of them.
01:26:24.560And then a lot of the agents, Chip Cook, Mike Hannon, these guys would come in when they weren't scheduled.
01:26:29.180Just to go back through and review, they put the case together.
01:26:31.920Their diligence paid off, and they were able to spin up several times all the way up to a high-level BMF manager favored by Big Meech himself.
01:26:42.000They would watch The Wire on HBO, and they would talk about it.
01:26:46.080We would sit there white-knuckled, the episodes where they would throw all the burners away, and they would talk about, yeah, good things these idiots down here don't know how to wiretap.
01:26:54.960Or, you know, or they get paranoid and go, let's just text, or they take.
01:32:48.020I've got so much money, I literally throw it up in the air and not even care about it.
01:32:52.900When we go out at night, whatever we spend, $50,000, $100,000 in the motherfucking club, we can afford to do it because we ain't bring it all with us.
01:33:00.840A lot of niggas don't like to spend their money.
01:33:09.040Ain't no armored trucks pulling up at no funerals.
01:33:11.220The best relationship and partnership in federal drug law enforcement are a group of DEA agents married up with a group of IRS agents.
01:33:20.340It's a whole other expertise and full-time job to exploit and uncover the layers of laundered money and items purchased secretly by nominees.
01:33:30.760Typically, these people aren't going to have anything in their name, which was the case with the Flannery brothers.
01:33:41.060So what you have to do is start looking at family members.
01:33:43.360A house that Terry Flannery had in L.A., his girlfriend, Tenisa Welsh, it's in her name.
01:33:48.360He sets a company for her out there called Oracle Motorsports.
01:33:51.380It really doesn't do anything, but he's got all these high-end cars in there, which are his cars, which he's got auto brokers out there that he's feeding money to, buying his cars, keeping them in their names.
01:34:03.040For years, IRS agent Scartozzi traced the money back to Meech and Terry, continually uncovering more and more people who helped the two brothers to hide and launder their money.
01:34:12.940Terry had a girlfriend here in Detroit.
01:34:15.660He started looking at how's this young lady buy this house, show she put, you know, a hundred and some thousand dollars down on it.
01:34:21.260Well, how'd she put that, where'd that money come from?
01:34:24.180Cashier checks that came out of a credit union.
01:34:26.540Where'd the money come from to fund those?
01:34:28.780You know, it's just a matter, you know, again, you just build and build and piece and piece.
01:34:36.260One unsuspected accomplice to the two brothers was the famed jeweler to the stars, Jacob Arabov.
01:34:42.500He essentially, of course, is a businessman and is in business to make money.
01:34:47.620And Demetrius and Terry Flinnery had a lot of money to spend, and they liked spending it on, besides cars and homes, on nice jewelry, very flamboyant jewelry.
01:34:55.980One watch that Terry bought was encrusted with diamonds.
01:34:58.460It was valued at about $100,000, in fact.
01:35:00.980Jacob, the jeweler, extended a million-dollar line of credit to the brothers.
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01:37:51.380We knew who the players were as far as, when we know somebody got stopped, okay, we know that that guy was associated with BMF.
01:38:01.120Now let's backtrack and find out exactly how he was tied in.
01:38:04.560An analysis would be done of the phones they were carrying and the address books would be looked at.
01:38:09.600And there would be a common theme in that the names that were stored inside the cell phones.
01:38:14.800Investigation from there on the vehicles and the titles and the ownership often led to tying those vehicles and those individuals and those seizures back to the BMF.
01:38:24.540On the lead up to the takedown, tensions were high.
01:38:29.560Years of hard work had gone into the investigation.
01:39:33.720You just come in and show up after the fact and talk to your subject.
01:39:37.120Several of the 25 defendants immediately began to cooperate with the DEA, including one of Terry's most trusted managers.
01:39:44.300This whole death before dishonor, you know, that's all good when the money's flowing.
01:39:48.640But when the money dries up and there ain't nobody looking out for you, and then you yourself are looking at a pretty long sentence, the way I look at it, it's every man for himself.
01:39:56.860We're just really trying to motivate niggas and let niggas, you know, know that niggas is really out here getting it like this, man.
01:40:21.060Bill Marshall, not unlike many other defendants in this investigation, began to cooperate, essentially looking for a way to reduce his future prison sentence.
01:40:30.480He really laid out a lot of the financial stuff of the BMF organization.
01:40:35.380He really filled in the holes as far as how the straw buyers worked, how they moved money from city to city.
01:40:42.300His information was very useful going forward, and we went from 25 defendants to where we ended up, which was the conviction of 66 defendants in Detroit alone.
01:40:52.520With the help of Doc Marshall and other cooperating defendants, the DEA was able to effectively dismantle the Black Mafia family.
01:41:01.680All in all, 125 members, associates and relatives, were indicted and convicted.
01:41:07.760Out of the 125 members indicted, only eight.
01:41:11.120So, a rapper at Sardis, BMF Entertainment, was sentenced to October 30th, 2008, to five years, four months of federal prison.
01:41:16.540It said that McKnight was used, this is Blue Da Vinci, by the way, guys, because of the fact he had very small hands and can get that last kilogram or two of cocaine out of a stash spot where others could not.
01:42:04.800I'll show it to you guys here in a second.
01:42:06.380Both Demetrius and Terry Flinnery and almost all the rest of the members of the organization realized that the evidence was absolutely overwhelming.
01:42:15.660So, pleading out to 30 years, I suppose, seemed a little bit better than life.
01:43:17.600And he's being held right now at FCI Sheridan, which is a medium security federal correctional institute with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp and a detention center.
01:43:27.800So, with 1,500 plus inmates, almost 1,600.
01:43:47.700That's how hard we're grinding right now.
01:43:49.380The financial judgment in the indictment and what the Flinnerys took responsibility for when they pled to 30-year prison term was $270 million.
01:44:14.940And if you conservatively convert those dollars into kilos, we're talking about the distribution of between 15,000 and 18,000 kilograms of cocaine was during the life of this conspiracy.
01:44:26.000And this is one of the largest homegrown domestic distribution organization in the history of the country.
01:44:34.460I wish I could be there tonight, but God knows I could be there tonight, but one day soon, I'll be there with God's blessing.
01:44:42.260I just want to thank everybody for coming.
01:45:04.700That's why I wanted you to see it, because you guys got, like, the actual insight as to how the investigation was done.
01:45:10.360Not just, like, you know, the history of BMF, but y'all got, like, the details of, like, who was the conspirator, how they identified people, all that stuff.
01:45:17.880So I really like documentaries like that that go into depth of the actual investigation versus the organization, if that makes sense.
01:45:23.620But anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed that one, man.