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[salsa music playing]
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[man] As of 1987, Sal Magluta
was wanted in the state of Florida
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by virtue of his plea and conviction
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in the operation
Video Canary case ten years earlier.
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Once the Supreme Court
had rejected his various appeals,
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he was then wanted, expected to surrender,
along with his partner, Willy Falcon
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to serve his 14-month sentence.
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That he did not.
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So he's a fugitive.
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[man 2] Sal's renting a place
in Miami Beach for 5,800 dollars a month.
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[woman] Hiding in plain sight.
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[man 2] Willy's up in Fort Lauderdale
renting a 9,000-dollar-a-month mansion.
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[woman] Willy was hiding out with Alina,
his wife.
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I used to go to La Gorce
at least once a week to see Sal,
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spend two or three days
'cause he was lonely over there.
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I was, like, taking care of him,
bringing him food.
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He said, "Well, I could go to Cuba
and live like a king."
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Well, go to Cuba and live like a king.
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"I have an emerald that I could live
the rest of my life off of."
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Well, take that emerald, put it
in your pocket, take off to Colombia.
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Do something. What are you waiting for?
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You're waiting for them to catch you,
and it will all be over?
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But Sal was more like,
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"Oh, I could still go and maybe eat
and have dinner at Joe's Stone Crab
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and they'll hide me in the back."
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He enjoyed living on the edge
and being like cat and mouse.
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"See if you can find me," you know?
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Willy didn't have that mentality.
Willy's like, "I don't wanna go to jail."
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I knew it was a matter of time.
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Sal and Willy were going to be caught.
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["Blood Sport" by Pitbull plays]
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♪ Woo!
Sniff, co- ♪
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♪ Snort, -caine ♪
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♪ Deal, cow- ♪
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♪ Snort, -boys ♪
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♪ Will, will, kill, kill ♪
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♪ For the love of the blood sport ♪
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♪ They'll do 25 to life
For the love of the blood sport ♪
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See this cute little vial here?
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It's crack, rock cocaine,
the most addictive form.
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You think
it's the glamour drug of the 80s?
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Well, that's the point
of this friendly little reminder.
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The drug dealers need to know
that we want them out of our schools,
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neighborhoods, and our lives.
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What would I do
if someone offered me these drugs?
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I'd tell them to take a hike.
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Say no to drugs.
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[man] I mean, they had
all this "Say no to drugs!"
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I was thinking, "This is gonna get tough.
There's not gonna be any work for me."
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It was the other way around.
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We had more coke coming
into the United States than ever before.
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[somber music playing]
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I had come back to Miami from L.A.
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I was with my friend,
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and we stopped
at Latin American to eat something.
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And there's this blonde girl
sitting with this older man.
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My friend's like, "Hey, look at that
blonde girl. She's really pretty."
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I'm like, "Bro, stop looking over there.
She's with her husband, you know?"
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"You wanna get us
into a fight or whatever?"
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I was at lunch with my dad,
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when I saw Peter and his friend
for the first time at Latin American.
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He just, like, caught my attention.
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[Pegy] That was on a Wednesday.
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["Rhythm is Gonna Get You"
by Gloria Estefan playing]
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- I go to Club Nu on a Friday night.
- I went to Club Nu.
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And Peter's friend goes, "Oh my God!
You're the girl from Latin American."
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[Pegy] He comes running, "Hey!"
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"Remember that pretty blonde girl
at Latin American?"
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I go, "Yeah."
"She's here!" I'm like, "Go get her."
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♪ At night
We can turn off all the lights ♪
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[Alexia] I think he was in the VIP.
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And I saw, like, all these girls
around him. I was like, "Oh my God."
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♪ The rhythm is gonna get you ♪
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When she gets there, I'm like,
[speaks Spanish]
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"Find me the priest. I'm getting married."
[laughs]
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♪ Throw the covers on your head ♪
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[Alexia] But it was funny,
'cause Jose Canseco was there too.
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So, it was kinda like,
"Okay, now you got competition."
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Jose was, like, trying to talk to me.
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When he saw that, he was like,
"Okay, I'm gonna, like, step forward."
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And I'm like,
"Okay, I really like this guy."
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♪ The rhythm is gonna get you
Tonight ♪
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That next day,
we went to the beach, we hung out,
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and then something
really interesting happened.
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While we were at his apartment,
it was like one in the morning.
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He gets a phone call, and he's like,
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"I gotta go."
"What do you mean, you gotta go?"
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He's like, "Yeah, but you can stay."
And I'm like, "I'm not staying."
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He left so quickly.
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That, at that moment I said, "This guy
has a girlfriend or he's married."
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So I picked up my things,
my beach stuff, and I left.
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Little did I know, that it was, like,
some shipment that was coming in,
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and he had to go pick up the merchandise.
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♪ Tonight ♪
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[man] In 1989, a grand jury
was investigating Falcon and Magluta.
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But the investigators at that time
really didn't have, uh, any sources,
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like undercover agents into them.
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They didn't have any informants into them.
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This was a kind of a family organization.
Everybody was related to somebody
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that worked for Willy and Sal.
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They knew each other for years
from little kids on Little Havana.
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So they had a lot of loyalty
to each other.
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So that makes it difficult
to penetrate and get somebody
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to cooperate against them.
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[ominous music playing]
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[reporter] Miami lawyer Juan Acosta
was bumped off by a Colombian hit man
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just days before he was due
to testify before a grand jury.
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One of the probably biggest breaks for us,
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not such a good break
for an attorney named Juan Acosta,
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was when he got murdered.
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He'd been subpoenaed
to turn over records to a grand jury
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that was investigating Falcon and Magluta.
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[Marilyn] Juan Acosta
was an attorney that Sal had
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to oversee his offshore accounts.
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He was gonna cooperate.
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He knew where the money was coming from.
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[Pat] When he got murdered,
all those records
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that they could have destroyed or hidden
fell into the hands of law enforcement.
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They were all in cabinets in his office.
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And all these records in his files
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showed all this money
going to and from Panamanian banks.
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So local law enforcement,
Metro Dade Homicide, got a search warrant,
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seized those records out of his cabinet,
and we brought them to the grand jury.
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The killers are still on the loose.
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They say at this point,
they have no suspects.
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In the very, very beginning,
I never suspected anything of him.
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Peter did not look
like a drug dealer to me.
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I didn't know what a drug dealer
was supposed to look like,
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except maybe Scarface.
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Nobody, not any of his friends,
not none of my friends,
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nobody that I knew
ever came to me and said,
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"Be careful with him."
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Everybody spoke so nicely of him.
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And I would ask him,
"Where do you work?"
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He's like, "I run my father's business
and my mom's business."
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So he would leave in the morning to go
to the gym and to supposedly go work.
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But I didn't know what work was.
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[salsa music playing]
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[Pegy] Justo Jay took care of the loads
that came in at the stash houses.
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He's the one that showed me
everything in the drug business.
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Jay had gotten arrested.
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He did not cooperate, and uh,
the judge goes to him,
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"I think you love Willy and Sal
more than you love your family."
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So they gave him life.
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Jay goes away
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and I take over.
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[music builds]
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To me, I didn't see, like, I was hurting
anybody or doing anything wrong.
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I used to have two apartments,
two or three houses.
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My rent was like 30,000 dollars a month.
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I'm making close to 250
on a monthly basis.
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I'm 21 years old.
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I provided my family
with whatever they needed.
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"You guys don't work anymore. From now on,
you know, I take care of everything here."
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I started thinking about all these
different things that were like signs,
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the cash, the different boats,
the different cars.
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I mean, nothing was ever his,
but it was the family.
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I'm not gonna lie. He wasn't
the first drug dealer I went out with.
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[Pegy] Drug dealing was something
that was, like, natural to me.
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You tell me, "Go in that store
and steal a candy bar," I can't do it.
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I'll start sweating, I'll get nervous.
You put me in a van with 3,000 keys,
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I'm like, "This is my world," you know?
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[Alexia] I always liked those kinda guys
that were cute
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with a good car, with the boat,
with that kind of, that bad boy.
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You know, I guess like unconsciously,
I wanted to make 'em good boys.
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[Pegy] It took about a year and a half
for me to start dating Alexia seriously.
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'Cause of the lifestyle I lived,
you don't wanna, like,
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get tied up to anybody, you know?
I mean, you're in the drug business.
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You're a drug dealer, you know?
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That's the last thing you wanna do
is get married and have somebody involved
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in a world that's crazy.
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[man] For the last 75 years,
the finest expressions of love have come...
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I love you.
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...from Mayor's.
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We went to Mayor's,
and I picked out my ring.
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[salsa music playing]
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We paid 42,000 dollars for the ring.
He did pay cash.
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We're engaged,
and I'm already making plans
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to get married
at the InterContinental Hotel.
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Willy Chirino was gonna sing
at our wedding.
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[singing in Spanish]
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Yoly Muñoz did my wedding dress.
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["Wedding March" plays]
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And he's living the perfect fake life
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when all this stuff is gonna happen
in the next few months.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Chris] In April of 1991,
based on documentary evidence
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and testimony
from several cooperating witnesses,
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gathered over a two-year period of time,
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the grand jury
returned a sealed indictment.
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[dramatic music playing]
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In that indictment, Falcon, Magluta,
and eight of their colleagues,
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co-defendants, family members,
were charged with conspiracy to import
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and conspiracy to possess
with intent to distribute
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thousands of kilograms of cocaine.
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[reporter] 75 tons,
they were accused of smuggling.
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[Christopher] 2.1 billion dollars worth
of narcotics.
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The U.S. Marshals now had
an active case for Falcon and Magluta.
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They were all in the wind,
hiding out everywhere.
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[Pegy] Sal goes to me,
"Hey, you are in the indictment."
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I was indicted under Louis Mendez.
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That was my fake name, Louis Mendez.
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Sal goes to me, "What do you wanna do?
You wanna turn yourself in
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or stay fugitive?"
I go, "I ain't turning myself in."
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"It's just not gonna happen."
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We weren't gonna stop.
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[Alexia] Peter's sister showed up, Gina,
at the house, which was very unusual.
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She's the one married to Taby,
Willy Falcon's brother.
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It was really late at night.
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She's like,
"I know you guys are getting married."
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"Cut off the wedding
'cause they're gonna catch you."
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"Be careful, my brother."
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I looked at him,
and you can see that he was afraid.
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[Pegy] I heard that they were waiting
for me to get married,
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that they were gonna go arrest me
the day of my wedding.
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That's something you'd see in a movie.
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Like, that they'd arrest you
while you're walking down the aisle.
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[Pegy] I had to call the whole thing off.
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I mean, it broke my heart to tell her,
"Hey, listen. We can't do it."
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- [sirens]
- ["Bad Boys" by Inner Circle playing]
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♪ What you want, what you wanna do ♪
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It's funny, 'cause me and Alexia,
we used to watch the show, Cops.
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You know that song that's so catchy?
That's like "Bad boys, bad boys."
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♪ What you gonna do ♪
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♪ What you gonna do
When they come for you ♪
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Alexia would look at me and say
"Bad boy, what you gonna do
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when they come for you?"
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And they did come for me.
They came for me, bro. [laughs]
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[Alexia] We woke up that day.
We were having breakfast.
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[Pegy] And I'm getting in my car.
All these cops surround me.
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[sirens]
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They come out of everywhere.
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Cars, they were all hiding here.
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Guns, everything.
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And I got busted.
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They showed me pictures of Willy and Sal.
"Do you know these guys?"
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"Do you work for these guys?"
I'm like, "I don't know who they are."
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They're going through that gate.
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They knock on the door.
I'm standing here. I'm handcuffed.
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They knock on the door, and then I hear
him say, "Don't open the door."
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I go, "Don't let 'em in!
Don't let 'em in!"
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And she saw the commotion.
They started fighting with her.
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[man] Sheriff's office! Search warrant!
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I don't know how she did it.
She locked them out of the house.
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She starts burning the Ferrari pictures,
the Apache pictures.
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[Alexia] They were like,
"Oh, you know, we're the DEA."
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"We're the U.S. Marshals.
You need to let me in."
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So I open the door a little bit,
and then, they're like, "What's his name?"
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I'm like, "I don't know his name."
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They're like "You live here with him?"
I'm like, "You don't know I live here."
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"So, what do you call him?"
I'm like, "Oh, babe."
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U.S. Marshals and DEA,
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they were doing surveillance
from the house right in front of it.
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And the people let them
do the surveillance.
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They should've come knock on my door
or throw a little note or something.
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"Hey! Get out. Run!"
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[man] Stop or I'll shoot you in the back!
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[Pegy] But they didn't.
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If you were in Little Havana,
I would have never gotten caught.
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I should have stayed
living in Little Havana. [laughs]
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And then everybody started
getting arrested after that.
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I got arrested first and then another guy.
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[man] I thought I had escaped. [laughs]
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I thought I escaped
until I heard the knock at the door.
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The DEA says "Ralph, you're going down.
You're all going down."
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"You got a chance right now
to make a deal for yourself
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before the shit hits the fan."
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And of course, you know, I kept saying,
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[repeating] "No."
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[dramatic music builds]
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They get Peter.
The sister, Gina, and Taby, disappear.
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[Pegy] My sister didn't have to leave.
You know, he wasn't in the indictment.
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But I mean, I guess she was really,
really loyal to her husband, to Taby.
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They were hanging out
since they were like 14, 15 years old.
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They took their kids with 'em.
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My parents thought that,
"This will go on for four, five years."
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"They'll come back."
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It's been almost 25 years.
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You know when your kid leaves to go out
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and you sit home waiting
for your kid to come back home?
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That's my parents for the past,
like, 25 years.
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[Alexia] We go to court
two or three days later to get bond.
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For the first time,
I'm hearing all the charges
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that this person
that I'm marrying is being charged with.
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I just remember the "75 tons of cocaine."
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I remember "conspiracy,"
and I remember "25 years, minimum."
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Chris Clark, the U.S. attorney,
I just remember him being an asshole,
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like they all are, and he was just like,
"Okay, he's not getting bond."
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"He belongs to this, like,
horrific organization."
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"He's, like, a threat to society."
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And I was like, "They have
to have the wrong person."
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My tears were just, like,
coming out, and like,
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"I'm never gonna be able
to be with this person again."
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My family thought,
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"Okay, this is the perfect opportunity
for you to say, you know, 'I'm walking.'"
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I couldn't do it.
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I couldn't do it. I just couldn't.
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I'm like,
"This is when he needs me the most."
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"This is when I'm gonna fight for him,"
and, you know, I had to do it.
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I don't wanna talk about it,
because I'm gonna start crying right now.
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So, um, anyways...
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[Pegy] Chris Clark.
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He told me, "If you don't wanna spend
the rest of your life in jail,
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you just do the right thing."
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They tried to convince Pegy
to turn in Sal.
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I don't think it took too much convincing
'cause Pegy doesn't have much backbone.
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[Pegy] I had no choice.
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I mean, it was either cooperate
or spend the rest of my life in prison.
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So, I mean, I gave 'em Sal.
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[somber music playing]
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Louis Mendez agreed to cooperate
with the government.
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[Pegy] I drew, like, a map.
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That's how they found La Gorce.
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[Chris] The Marshals
then conducted their own surveillance.
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Sal Magluta was the person
who was renting that property.
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[music intensifies]
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[Marilyn] They started throwing tear gas
and doing whatever it is they do,
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because nobody wanted
to come out of the house.
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Sal slips out the back.
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And then the rest of them come out,
and they get arrested.
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They didn't know he was on the property
'til they went to his office,
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and then they saw
that his wallet was there
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with his 50 passports
and his 20 driver's licenses,
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so they said, "We know he's here."
So they set the dogs out.
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[dogs barking]
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And the dogs dragged him out,
and he got arrested also.
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[reporter] Agents found boxes
with stacks of cash there,
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sophisticated equipment smugglers use,
and documents the government claims
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were drug ledgers, account books,
agents said, for a vast smuggling ring.
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[Marilyn] One of the people in the house
doesn't wanna go to jail.
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He started crying,
"No, I don't wanna go to jail."
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I'll tell you where Willy Falcon is."
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"This is like a gold mine now.
We're getting Willy too."
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[Chris] I obtained a second search warrant
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authorizing federal authorities
to search that residence.
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And Willy gets arrested.
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[Jim] They were here the whole time!
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[Chris] As of that point,
with the exception of Taby Falcon,
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the wanted fugitives
in the indictment were apprehended.
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[Pegy] It just stopped. It just stopped.
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It all came to an end, and, you know...
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[repeating] I mean, it was over.
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[dramatic music fades out]
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[Alexia] Peter was out on bond for a year,
and I get pregnant and have little Peter.
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Within a year, he had to turn himself in.
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He was gonna start
serving the five-year sentence.
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I just remember holding him
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and just hugging him
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and just crying and crying.
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And, like, it's different, like, a mom,
a woman cries, and it's...
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you know, it's meaningful,
but when a dad cries, it's a different...
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A different kind of crying.
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[reporter] The Federal Metropolitan
Correctional Center
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houses some of the nation's
best-known drug traffickers.
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[Chris] After Falcon and Magluta
had been arrested,
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their next task was to hire counsel.
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And befitting their reputation
as the kings of cocaine,
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the biggest drug traffickers
in the United States,
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they needed to have representation
commensurate with their image.
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Defendants are not permitted
to use their illegal proceeds,
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in this case, drug proceeds,
to pay for their representation.
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According to the law,
that money does not belong to a defendant.
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It was ill-gotten.
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Therefore, the government is entitled
to that money, and I sincerely believed
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that the public defender would have
to represent Falcon and Magluta.
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That thought was quickly dissipated.
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[funky music playing]
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[Pat] Albert Krieger...
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[Chris] Perhaps the most renowned attorney
in the country.
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[Pat] ...who gets retained
to help on Willy and Sal's case,
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while he's representing
John Gotti up in New York.
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[reporter] A jury in New York City
convicted alleged mob boss John Gotti.
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This very unhappy day exemplified
Mr. Gotti's strength of character.
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One of the major reasons
for getting out of New York
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was that I wanted to go to a place
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where I could keep my boat
in the water 12 months a year.
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[cash register]
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Roy Black is one of the most
well-respected criminal defense lawyers
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in America.
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He represented Griselda Blanco.
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[reporter] Griselda Blanco, La Madrina,
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or "godmother"
headed a large cocain e organization,
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killing her way to the top.
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[Alex] He represented
one of the Miami River cops.
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The largest police corruption case
in the history of the United States.
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He represented William Kennedy Smith.
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[reporter] The issue is whether
William Kennedy Smith raped a young woman
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at the Kennedy family compound
on Palm Beach Easter weekend.
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[reporter 2] Do you think all this
media coverage is hampering your ability
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to get a fair trial?
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[William] No, it's hampering
my way of going to lunch.
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[Jim] Roy Black not only won
the William Kennedy Smith trial,
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he also married one of the jurors.
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[Marilyn] We had Frank Rubino,
who we all love.
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[Jim] Frank Rubino's on the case,
and his other client is Manuel Noriega.
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[reporter] Former Panamanian strongman
Manuel Noriega is scheduled
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to be sentenced for drug trafficking
and racketeering convictions.
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We do not believe that it's a valid
drug case, we never have, we never will.
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They called us the white powder bar,
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because at that time, it was
almost exclusively cocaine cases.
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I never found it to be a favorable term.
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I actually disliked it.
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00:23:22,275 --> 00:23:28,323
An intelligent defendant
wants to be represented by a lawyer
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who has not only apparent integrity,
but real integrity.
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You may think I'm jesting,
but one of the important standards
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was to make sure I was going to get paid.
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[cash register]
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Within a couple of weeks of their arrest,
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I had my first meeting with them.
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Certainly gave me the impression
at that time that,
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shall we say, they understood the rules.
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[Frank] Willy and Sal,
the government seized those assets
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they knew about,
but to add another layer, if you will,
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there was a protective order
basically saying,
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"Any assets that we haven't seized,
you can't have those either."
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You have to be able to have an explanation
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for where the funds came.
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There was an explanation given to me
that was satisfactory to me.
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They paid me, I accepted their funds,
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and I filed the appropriate 8500 forms
with the Internal Revenue Service,
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reported everything as required by law.
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[Jim] The feds thought
that when they captured Willy and Sal,
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they were gonna put Willy and Sal in a box
and that'd be the end of them.
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00:24:46,151 --> 00:24:50,030
And then eventually, you sort of work it
out in trial, but once you catch them
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that's really the end of the story.
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00:24:52,407 --> 00:24:55,118
No. Catching them was just
the beginning of the story.
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00:24:55,202 --> 00:24:58,705
And catching them didn't stop
Willy and Sal from being Willy and Sal.
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00:24:58,788 --> 00:25:01,791
[salsa music playing]
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[Chris] There was an incident
in which a cell phone was seized
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from a fellow inmate,
who was holding it on behalf of Magluta.
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Falcon and Magluta,
they were put in solitary confinement.
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[Jim] You can keep 'em in isolation
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unless they needed to help
in their defense.
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All you need to do is say,
"This is a legal visit.
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We're sending over a paralegal to go
and review documents with Willy and Sal."
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00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:31,780
Sal called me,
and he said to me, "I need you now."
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00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:34,574
"Go fill out a form
and become a paralegal."
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Not become a para...
"Make believe you're a paralegal,
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and that way you can come
into the jail every day."
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Everybody became a paralegal.
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Everybody became a private investigator.
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Well, I guess I got to tell you
about the A Team and the B Team.
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The A Team were the lawyers
who were going to try the case.
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Very little of our time
was taken up with the jail problems.
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There were other lawyers who handled that.
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00:26:06,398 --> 00:26:09,484
They should have been
in solitary 23 hours a day.
447
00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:12,529
They maybe were in solitary
two or three hours a day.
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00:26:12,612 --> 00:26:17,200
Sal was not spending his day in jail.
He was spending it in the visiting room.
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00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:22,205
When I would go in, instead of just
putting Sal and Willy to pull 'em out,
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00:26:22,289 --> 00:26:26,167
I would pull out five other prisoners
that Sal wanted to talk to.
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00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:31,756
He would actually have
six babysitters, me and then five more,
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so each one could take a room.
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And Sal would go from room to room.
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Let's say Krieger was in one room,
Roy Black was in another.
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As long as there's an attorney present
in the room,
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you can bring anybody into the room.
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00:26:45,854 --> 00:26:48,189
Of course,
since it's attorney-client material,
458
00:26:48,273 --> 00:26:49,566
you can't look in on 'em.
459
00:26:49,649 --> 00:26:52,360
You can't listen in on 'em.
They have to have privacy.
460
00:26:52,944 --> 00:26:55,405
Well, they had privacy all right.
461
00:26:57,157 --> 00:27:00,577
[Marilyn] I was bringing in food.
I was bringing in Xanax.
462
00:27:00,660 --> 00:27:03,246
There was one time I came,
and they wanted lobster.
463
00:27:03,330 --> 00:27:08,043
And it smelled, and I put in a bunch
of perfume, and I could still smell it.
464
00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:11,546
There were a lot of reports of, well,
let's just say that sometimes
465
00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:15,634
the paralegals came out a little bit more
disheveled than when they went in.
466
00:27:15,717 --> 00:27:17,427
Did we have sex in jail? Yes.
467
00:27:18,303 --> 00:27:23,141
Yes, there were guards that were paid off
to kind of look the other way.
468
00:27:23,224 --> 00:27:25,310
And then, there were those visiting rooms.
469
00:27:25,393 --> 00:27:28,188
And there was a spot
where the camera couldn't hit.
470
00:27:28,271 --> 00:27:31,399
You couldn't see what was going on.
It was right up against the wall.
471
00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:34,819
The whole thing lasted
less than 30 seconds. [laughs]
472
00:27:36,363 --> 00:27:38,239
[Pegy] Were they paralegals? Uh...
473
00:27:39,699 --> 00:27:41,993
I don't wanna say hookers. [laughs]
474
00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:51,628
[Marilyn] Sal said,
"You know, Marilyn, while I was out,
475
00:27:52,212 --> 00:27:56,424
I would give money to the missionaries
and the charities and the churches,
476
00:27:56,508 --> 00:28:00,804
and I want you to do it for me,
because I can't do it from jail."
477
00:28:00,887 --> 00:28:04,391
So Sal said, "Go pick up money
from one of the stash houses,
478
00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:07,686
get some ledger paper,
and I'll show you how to do it."
479
00:28:08,728 --> 00:28:12,232
He gave me two pages
of ministries and names,
480
00:28:12,315 --> 00:28:15,443
and he put the amount.
He said, "Do this monthly."
481
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:18,530
I said, "Okay, you know,
it's not a big deal. I can do that."
482
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:24,244
The next thing was, "Well, could you pay
my commissary and Willy's commissary?"
483
00:28:24,327 --> 00:28:28,707
I said, "That's not a problem."
"And while you're at it, pay this one."
484
00:28:28,790 --> 00:28:31,042
And all the prisoners' names,
he would give me a list
485
00:28:31,126 --> 00:28:33,378
and how much to put in their commissary.
486
00:28:33,461 --> 00:28:38,341
And then other things
started being added to the ledger book.
487
00:28:39,426 --> 00:28:43,805
Willy paid one guy to make his bed,
'cause he was too lazy to make his bed.
488
00:28:43,888 --> 00:28:46,516
There were four guards that I paid,
489
00:28:47,016 --> 00:28:51,104
I just gave 'em an envelope,
and it had 25,000 dollars.
490
00:28:51,187 --> 00:28:54,023
And I just gave it to him.
Nobody knew what I was giving him.
491
00:28:55,358 --> 00:28:59,446
From the small people all the way up
to the attorneys and everybody
492
00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:03,324
who was involved in the case,
their family had to be supported.
493
00:29:03,408 --> 00:29:05,577
I didn't think I was doing
anything illegal.
494
00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:10,832
[Jim] Marilyn Bonachea paid
at least 7.7 million dollars in cash
495
00:29:10,915 --> 00:29:16,087
to co-conspirators, prison guards,
inmates from 1991 to 1996,
496
00:29:16,171 --> 00:29:21,050
even though a federal judge had ordered
all of Willy and Sal's assets frozen.
497
00:29:22,010 --> 00:29:25,096
[Marilyn] A lot of people would say,
"Sal's crazy doing this."
498
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:29,142
You know? "This girl's gonna take him
for every penny that he's got!" [laughs]
499
00:29:29,225 --> 00:29:34,522
I took some, but I didn't leave him broke.
I just took a few million. [laughs]
500
00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:36,441
But that was through the years.
501
00:29:38,318 --> 00:29:41,821
It was never my idea
to keep track of anybody's money
502
00:29:41,905 --> 00:29:44,908
or where anything was going.
It was all Sal's idea.
503
00:29:44,991 --> 00:29:48,536
The only idea I had was to make
the attorney-client stamp.
504
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:52,624
I told Sal that way they can't
go through it, so I had one made.
505
00:29:52,707 --> 00:29:56,419
[laughs] And everything was stamped,
even my briefcase was stamped,
506
00:29:56,503 --> 00:29:59,005
I stamped everything,
so they wouldn't be able to.
507
00:29:59,088 --> 00:30:01,591
And if they did get it,
they wouldn't be able to use it.
508
00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:06,846
[Jim] Marilyn Bonachea was the paymaster
for all the inmates that they had hired,
509
00:30:06,930 --> 00:30:09,349
the movement of money
to support the organization
510
00:30:09,432 --> 00:30:11,601
while they were incarcerated.
She knew it all.
511
00:30:13,186 --> 00:30:15,396
[Marilyn] The business never stopped
running.
512
00:30:15,939 --> 00:30:18,733
It was being run
just like if they were outside.
513
00:30:19,275 --> 00:30:21,195
There's a breaking story
we're hearing about now,
514
00:30:21,277 --> 00:30:24,239
another very public shooting
in Coral Gables.
515
00:30:24,322 --> 00:30:27,116
[reporter] A woman is murdered
in broad daylight.
516
00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:29,828
The woman was coming
out of a beauty parlor
517
00:30:29,911 --> 00:30:31,496
when two men tried to rob her.
518
00:30:31,579 --> 00:30:35,166
And she died, police say, because
she simply wouldn't give up her purse.
519
00:30:35,250 --> 00:30:37,085
[Marilyn] I was watching the news...
520
00:30:38,378 --> 00:30:42,382
when I saw Alina Falcon on the stretcher.
521
00:30:45,176 --> 00:30:47,679
[reporter] The victim,
Alina Rossique-Falcon,
522
00:30:47,762 --> 00:30:50,849
is alleged drug dealer
Willy Falcon's wife.
523
00:30:53,977 --> 00:30:57,939
[Marilyn] Willy, he was watching TV,
and he saw it just like I did on the TV.
524
00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:03,653
[reporter 2] 1913 Ponce de Leon
in a beauty shop, a woman walked outside,
525
00:31:03,736 --> 00:31:07,365
got into the car, and at that point
was approached by three men.
526
00:31:07,448 --> 00:31:09,617
She had, like,
80,000 dollars in the car.
527
00:31:10,118 --> 00:31:12,829
A struggle ensued, one of the subjects
528
00:31:12,912 --> 00:31:16,040
pulled out a weapon and shot the victim.
529
00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:19,002
[audio recording playing]
530
00:31:24,757 --> 00:31:27,302
[Jim] You know, right away,
every pager went off
531
00:31:27,385 --> 00:31:30,430
for every law enforcement officer
in South Florida.
532
00:31:30,513 --> 00:31:31,931
What the hell is going on here?
533
00:31:32,765 --> 00:31:35,852
Was Alina about to cooperate?
Was she about to flip against her husband?
534
00:31:35,935 --> 00:31:37,645
Is that what was happening here?
535
00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:40,106
[reporter] Metro Dade Police emphasized
they have no reason
536
00:31:40,189 --> 00:31:43,401
to believe Alina Falcon's murder
was in any way connected
537
00:31:43,484 --> 00:31:45,612
to her husband's alleged drug dealing.
538
00:31:45,695 --> 00:31:49,574
They say she was simply a victim
of a senseless street crime.
539
00:31:50,366 --> 00:31:53,828
[Jim] The cops put the word out
on the street
540
00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:58,458
that Willy had a one-million-dollar bounty
for whoever killed his wife.
541
00:31:58,541 --> 00:32:01,461
And that if they didn't wanna die
at Willy's hand,
542
00:32:01,544 --> 00:32:04,756
they better turn themselves in
to the police as soon as possible.
543
00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:08,885
And somehow, shortly after that word
got out, the case was solved.
544
00:32:08,968 --> 00:32:10,688
[reporter] Today,
20-year-old Raymond Smith,
545
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,472
a laborer from Albany, Georgia,
546
00:32:12,555 --> 00:32:16,142
who was down visiting friends,
remains behind bars, charged with murder.
547
00:32:16,225 --> 00:32:20,063
According to police reports, he told
a friend he was the one who shot Falcon.
548
00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:23,191
I... I... I couldn't believe it.
I mean, I was...
549
00:32:25,026 --> 00:32:28,488
She was one hell of a woman.
I loved her very, very much.
550
00:32:31,074 --> 00:32:32,700
And what hurt me the most was
551
00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:35,662
that everybody thought
that Willy put a hit on her.
552
00:32:35,745 --> 00:32:40,124
That's what really... I had a lot of fights
and a lot of argument over that.
553
00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:42,293
But that was so far from the truth.
554
00:32:43,169 --> 00:32:47,173
[Jim] After Willy's wife was killed,
Willy went dark.
555
00:32:47,757 --> 00:32:51,761
I mean, all of the light that people
used to talk about that surrounded Willy,
556
00:32:51,844 --> 00:32:56,224
his gregarious nature, he became sullen.
He became embittered.
557
00:32:57,225 --> 00:33:00,103
He became obsessed with exercise,
558
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:03,523
trying to work through the pain
of losing his wife.
559
00:33:05,358 --> 00:33:08,403
It fell to Sal to sorta pick up the pieces
560
00:33:08,486 --> 00:33:12,532
and keep the organization running,
to keep Willy and Sal, Inc. moving.
561
00:33:22,083 --> 00:33:24,168
[dramatic music plays]
562
00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:27,630
[Jim] One of the things defense attorneys
never wanted to talk about
563
00:33:27,714 --> 00:33:31,718
or prosecutors ever wanna admit to
was the behind-the-scenes negotiations.
564
00:33:34,095 --> 00:33:39,100
Sal and Willy, they recognized
fighting the government
565
00:33:40,143 --> 00:33:44,439
was probably not going to be
the best outcome for them.
566
00:33:44,522 --> 00:33:47,358
I was hired by Sal
567
00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:52,321
to be in charge of negotiating
a resolution before the trial.
568
00:33:53,197 --> 00:33:57,118
Neil Taylor? Sal never, ever wanted
anybody in the room. Not even me.
569
00:33:58,202 --> 00:34:00,830
He really didn't want anybody to know
570
00:34:01,456 --> 00:34:05,334
that he was considering
some type of plea negotiation.
571
00:34:06,335 --> 00:34:08,838
We didn't wanna demoralize the trial team.
572
00:34:10,256 --> 00:34:14,052
I don't think the other lawyers
were aware of it in the beginning.
573
00:34:14,927 --> 00:34:21,642
If I would have heard that there were
a plea negotiation of that sort,
574
00:34:22,310 --> 00:34:25,813
I think it would have taken
about a month for me to stop
575
00:34:25,897 --> 00:34:28,900
shouting, screaming, cursing,
576
00:34:28,983 --> 00:34:33,196
having a temper tantrum
beyond all temper tantrums.
577
00:34:34,363 --> 00:34:37,867
[Neil] Under the terms of our offer,
578
00:34:37,950 --> 00:34:40,995
they would have had
Sal and Willy in prison
579
00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:43,164
for a substantial period of time.
580
00:34:43,664 --> 00:34:44,664
[music intensifies]
581
00:34:44,707 --> 00:34:47,794
[Jim] The early version
of the deal was plead guilty,
582
00:34:47,877 --> 00:34:50,588
get sentenced
to 40 years in prison, cooperate,
583
00:34:50,671 --> 00:34:53,841
and Willy and Sal could knock
that time down to 20 years.
584
00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:55,843
Also, as a sweetener,
585
00:34:55,927 --> 00:34:59,722
Willy and Sal would agree agree
to turn over 40 million dollars in cash
586
00:34:59,806 --> 00:35:04,477
and 4,000 kilos of cocaine
they were sitting on in Miami somewhere
587
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,437
that they could point them to, right now,
588
00:35:06,521 --> 00:35:09,023
if you accept the deal,
4,000 kilos of cocaine.
589
00:35:09,107 --> 00:35:11,234
[Ralph] For Willy and Sal,
that was nothing.
590
00:35:11,818 --> 00:35:15,446
Sal was only gonna give up
a little bit of what he had.
591
00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:19,158
He was gonna give up
a few stash houses, a little bit of money,
592
00:35:19,242 --> 00:35:21,077
and he was gonna blame it on Pegy.
593
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:22,662
[laughs]
594
00:35:22,745 --> 00:35:26,124
[Marilyn] Pegy was gonna take the heat
for what was about to happen.
595
00:35:28,084 --> 00:35:31,629
I handled
what we referred to as a proffer.
596
00:35:33,965 --> 00:35:36,384
A 30-something page typed document.
597
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:41,848
I had their secrets, all of them.
598
00:35:41,931 --> 00:35:44,559
I don't think there was anything
that was held back.
599
00:35:45,393 --> 00:35:50,481
A portion of this proffer contained
individuals who were culpable.
600
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:57,947
There was a substantial number of people,
private individuals, public individuals,
601
00:35:58,030 --> 00:36:00,158
and law enforcement individuals.
602
00:36:01,409 --> 00:36:02,827
People who were bought.
603
00:36:02,910 --> 00:36:04,412
[dramatic music builds]
604
00:36:04,495 --> 00:36:08,124
We paid off, literally,
at the state level, pretty much everybody
605
00:36:08,207 --> 00:36:10,001
that had any position of authority
606
00:36:10,084 --> 00:36:13,254
in anything that was related
or important to us.
607
00:36:13,337 --> 00:36:17,300
All the detectives,
vice squad, homicide, everybody.
608
00:36:17,383 --> 00:36:21,179
This went all the way up to the head
of the homicide department in Miami.
609
00:36:21,929 --> 00:36:23,431
Judges were paid for.
610
00:36:23,514 --> 00:36:26,100
High people all the way
in the United States government.
611
00:36:27,226 --> 00:36:30,730
In our budget, a million dollars a month,
that's what we would pay off.
612
00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:36,736
As a federal prosecutor,
when I would have opened that proffer
613
00:36:36,819 --> 00:36:39,739
and seen those names,
I would have been impressed.
614
00:36:41,449 --> 00:36:44,702
[Marilyn] Willy always wanted to plea out
from the very beginning.
615
00:36:45,494 --> 00:36:47,830
But he didn't wanna plea out that way.
616
00:36:48,706 --> 00:36:50,917
Willy didn't wanna be a snitch.
617
00:36:51,876 --> 00:36:55,296
There was one copy and one copy only,
618
00:36:55,379 --> 00:36:59,425
and it was handled
like a top secret document.
619
00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:03,346
The government
thumbed through the proffer,
620
00:37:03,429 --> 00:37:07,934
perhaps because of their confidence
in their case,
621
00:37:08,017 --> 00:37:11,270
it was very casually dismissed.
622
00:37:11,896 --> 00:37:13,731
[dramatic music fades out]
623
00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:16,692
[Jim] The justice department
said no to the deal.
624
00:37:16,776 --> 00:37:22,615
[Neil] Their fixation
on these two individuals
625
00:37:22,698 --> 00:37:27,245
was precluding them
from making the smart decision.
626
00:37:27,328 --> 00:37:28,746
"We're not making that deal.
627
00:37:28,829 --> 00:37:32,041
We're not letting them buy
their way out of their prison sentence."
628
00:37:32,124 --> 00:37:34,669
It really should have been resolved.
629
00:37:34,752 --> 00:37:40,383
'Til this day, it's extremely distressing
to me that we did not succeed.
630
00:37:46,347 --> 00:37:50,393
[Ralph] We had a meeting
at the FDC in downtown Miami.
631
00:37:50,476 --> 00:37:54,063
Me, Willy, and Sal with all the attorneys.
632
00:37:54,730 --> 00:37:56,857
They were going to plead not guilty.
633
00:37:57,441 --> 00:37:59,161
But I said,
"You're really gonna go in there
634
00:37:59,235 --> 00:38:02,613
and say 'We didn't do this'"? [laughs]
635
00:38:02,697 --> 00:38:04,991
And they look at me like, "Yeah."
636
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,910
So, "Okay, I'm out." [laughs]
637
00:38:07,994 --> 00:38:09,996
"I'm going to plead guilty."
638
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:11,539
And they said, "That's fine."
639
00:38:12,748 --> 00:38:17,420
Willy and Sal and the whole muchachos,
we were like, brothers,
640
00:38:17,503 --> 00:38:19,839
and we really loved each other.
641
00:38:20,464 --> 00:38:24,427
And I'm a man. And I was not going to, uh,
642
00:38:24,510 --> 00:38:29,348
say, after everything that we've done,
I'm not gonna turn against them.
643
00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:31,350
So I took responsibility for what I did.
644
00:38:31,434 --> 00:38:36,605
I pleaded guilty. It was for 15 years,
and we brought it down to 12.
645
00:38:36,689 --> 00:38:38,733
And I took it like a man.
646
00:38:40,526 --> 00:38:45,906
Conspiracies inherently have informers.
647
00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:52,997
Have somebody who has rolled over,
as the common phrase is.
648
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:58,502
Is no longer a friend,
but is now really quite an enemy.
649
00:38:59,754 --> 00:39:02,590
[Pegy] Willy's mom, she told my dad,
may God protect me.
650
00:39:03,382 --> 00:39:06,510
"Be careful,
'cause you know, you might get killed."
651
00:39:07,970 --> 00:39:10,598
I mean, that's how I took it, you know?
652
00:39:11,932 --> 00:39:16,020
I was waiting for Sal or Willy to call me,
and it came from their mom, you know?
653
00:39:16,687 --> 00:39:19,982
Which is cool, you know?
I mean, it's a family business, you know?
654
00:39:20,066 --> 00:39:21,817
[clock ticking]
655
00:39:24,070 --> 00:39:26,030
By all accounts,
the government's drug case
656
00:39:26,113 --> 00:39:31,118
against Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta
is one of the biggest in U.S. history.
657
00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:33,329
It's also one of the most interesting.
658
00:39:33,412 --> 00:39:36,707
The story involves
two billion dollars' worth of cocaine,
659
00:39:36,791 --> 00:39:38,584
two champion powerboat racers,
660
00:39:38,667 --> 00:39:42,213
and a magazine ad
that has touched off an ethical debate
661
00:39:42,296 --> 00:39:44,757
at the highest levels
of the legal community.
662
00:39:45,466 --> 00:39:47,468
[Jim] In preparation for the trial,
663
00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:51,847
the government had turned over a possible
witness list of more than 80 individuals
664
00:39:51,931 --> 00:39:57,061
who were gonna be cooperating witnesses
against Falcon and Magluta, Willy and Sal.
665
00:39:57,144 --> 00:39:59,146
Most of 'em were currently in prison
666
00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:02,566
or had been recently convicted
on other crimes,
667
00:40:02,650 --> 00:40:04,485
and they were testifying
against Willy and Sal
668
00:40:04,568 --> 00:40:06,922
as a way of knocking off
some time from their own sentences.
669
00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:09,633
[salsa version of Grieg's "In the Hall
of the Mountain King" playing]
670
00:40:09,657 --> 00:40:12,493
Now, what happened
was the defense team created,
671
00:40:12,576 --> 00:40:15,329
I guess, for lack of a better term,
an advertisement.
672
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:19,250
[reporter] Willy and Sal's lawyers
took out an ad in a national publication.
673
00:40:20,543 --> 00:40:23,587
[Jim] The defense team placed
an ad in Champion magazine,
674
00:40:23,671 --> 00:40:26,674
which is a magazine
for defense attorneys across the country,
675
00:40:26,757 --> 00:40:29,135
listing the names
of all these individuals.
676
00:40:29,218 --> 00:40:33,514
[reporter] "Information wanted," it read,
and listed the names of 31 people
677
00:40:33,597 --> 00:40:36,976
who were expected
to testify against Willy and Sal.
678
00:40:37,059 --> 00:40:40,438
When we put an advertisement
in the Champion seeking information,
679
00:40:40,521 --> 00:40:45,317
we're asking our 25,000 members
and associate members around the country
680
00:40:45,401 --> 00:40:47,945
to please share
information if you have it.
681
00:40:49,155 --> 00:40:50,698
What's wrong with that?
682
00:40:50,781 --> 00:40:53,742
[reporter] Well, you didn't just run
the ad in the Champion?
683
00:40:53,826 --> 00:40:54,826
Correct.
684
00:40:55,453 --> 00:41:00,124
[Jim] They placed the exact same ad
in Prison Life magazine,
685
00:41:00,207 --> 00:41:04,253
which is distributed to federal
and state prisons across the country.
686
00:41:04,336 --> 00:41:06,464
[reporter] Prison Life is just
what it sounds like,
687
00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:08,215
a magazine for inmates.
688
00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:11,844
The ad in Prison Life
was meant to be circulated in prison
689
00:41:11,927 --> 00:41:14,889
where many
of the potential witnesses are being held.
690
00:41:14,972 --> 00:41:17,057
It was almost like a bounty poster.
691
00:41:17,141 --> 00:41:20,144
According to the government,
the minute those names were published,
692
00:41:20,227 --> 00:41:22,480
- the witnesses were in danger.
- [music intensifies]
693
00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:26,150
[reporter 2] After the ad first appeared,
one of the people on the list,
694
00:41:26,233 --> 00:41:29,695
the witness in the case,
was gunned down in his driveway.
695
00:41:29,778 --> 00:41:32,239
[Jim] Were you trying
to get the witnesses killed?
696
00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:34,243
The defense attorneys, of course, said,
"No, no."
697
00:41:34,283 --> 00:41:36,076
"We're just trying
to look for information."
698
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:39,205
I have a right to make my inquiries,
699
00:41:39,288 --> 00:41:44,502
and I don't have to explain
why I'm making the inquiry to anybody.
700
00:41:45,085 --> 00:41:47,379
I don't have to justify it.
701
00:41:47,463 --> 00:41:49,632
- Would you run this ad again?
- Sure.
702
00:41:50,174 --> 00:41:53,886
Police say it appears to be reminiscent
of "cocaine cowboy" days.
703
00:41:53,969 --> 00:41:56,555
That's when the drug gangs
shot it out all over South Florida.
704
00:41:56,639 --> 00:42:00,809
[reporter] One of the men who is wounded
may have a tie-in with drug traffickers
705
00:42:00,893 --> 00:42:03,521
Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta.
706
00:42:03,604 --> 00:42:07,691
Unbelievable. Four of the people planning
to testify against Falcon are gunned down.
707
00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:10,152
A well-financed plot
to destroy the government's case
708
00:42:10,236 --> 00:42:14,532
against the drug group or just a simple
string of bad luck for those guys.
709
00:42:14,615 --> 00:42:17,618
[music rises dramatically]
710
00:42:17,701 --> 00:42:20,538
[reporter] This is is one
of the biggest drug cases in U.S. history
711
00:42:20,621 --> 00:42:22,665
and federal officials say
they can make the case
712
00:42:22,748 --> 00:42:25,459
against Falcon and Magluta
using other witnesses.
713
00:42:25,543 --> 00:42:29,046
The problem is keeping them alive
until the October trial.
714
00:42:29,129 --> 00:42:31,006
[dramatic music ends]
715
00:42:31,090 --> 00:42:33,717
["Blood Sport" by Pitbull playing]
716
00:42:33,801 --> 00:42:36,512
- ♪ Cow- ♪
- ♪ Everybody sold a little yay ♪
717
00:42:36,595 --> 00:42:40,224
- ♪ Co-, -caine ♪
- ♪ But now I shall become the cocaine ♪
718
00:42:40,307 --> 00:42:42,059
♪ Woo! ♪
719
00:42:42,142 --> 00:42:44,645
♪ I've been processed, packaged,
Delivered in bricks ♪
720
00:42:44,728 --> 00:42:47,439
♪ I've been cut, cooked, chopped
And whipped ♪
721
00:42:47,523 --> 00:42:50,359
♪ I've been called all types of names ♪
722
00:42:50,442 --> 00:42:53,153
♪ Like Perico, Yeyo, Snow, Blow
And Cane ♪
723
00:42:53,237 --> 00:42:55,990
♪ I'm the reason
That the Cubans took over Miami ♪
724
00:42:56,073 --> 00:42:59,368
♪ I'm the reason they extorted Escobar
By extraditing his family ♪
725
00:42:59,451 --> 00:43:01,620
♪ I'm protected by killers,
I'm handled by dealers ♪
726
00:43:01,704 --> 00:43:04,748
♪ Well-connected with greed,
I'm all white, but I produce green ♪
727
00:43:04,832 --> 00:43:06,625
♪ Woo!
Sniff, co- ♪
728
00:43:06,709 --> 00:43:08,335
♪ Snort, -caine ♪
729
00:43:08,419 --> 00:43:09,670
♪ Deal, cow- ♪
730
00:43:09,753 --> 00:43:11,046
♪ Extort, -boys ♪
731
00:43:11,130 --> 00:43:14,133
♪ Will, will, kill, kill ♪
732
00:43:14,216 --> 00:43:16,677
♪ For the love of the blood sport ♪
733
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,513
♪ Sniff, co-
Snort, -caine ♪
734
00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:22,308
♪ Deal, cow-
Extort, -boys ♪
735
00:43:22,391 --> 00:43:25,436
♪ Will, will, kill, kill ♪
736
00:43:25,519 --> 00:43:28,063
♪ For the love of the blood sport ♪
737
00:43:28,147 --> 00:43:33,569
♪ They'll do 25 to life
For the love of the blood sport ♪
738
00:43:33,652 --> 00:43:36,947
♪ All in the name of that white ♪
739
00:43:37,031 --> 00:43:39,199
♪ For the love of the blood sport ♪
740
00:43:39,283 --> 00:43:41,285
[music fades out]
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