Raphael Correjigo person
also: Raphael, Rafael Corrego
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Gary Webb exposed
Raphael Correjigo book_quoted
“with reputed ties to Nicaraguan drug traffickers and Panamanian money launderers, was among those indicted for conspiracy to escape. The story called him a longtime drug dealer who was convicted in 1977 of cocaine trafficking in Panama. He …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 29:42
Raphael Correjigo member_of
CIA book_quoted
“The series created such an outcry that California legislature had abolished the forfeiture program a few weeks later. But I knew what I would hear if I pitched the woman's story to my editors. We've already done that. She was not dissuaded.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 24:02
Raphael Correjigo trafficked
CIA book_quoted
“That got his attention. She said, yes, the CIA. He used to work for them. He's a Nicaraguan too. Raphael knows him. He can tell you. He told me the guy had admitted to bringing four tons of cocaine into the country. Four tons. And if that's…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 24:33
Mentions (9)
▶ 21:21
He must have waived his speedy rights, Gary said. No, none of them have. There are about five or six guys in this same situation, and most of them are still waiting to be tried. They want to go to trial because they think it's all bullshit.…
▶ 21:50
He's Colombian. No, he's Nicaraguan. But he lived in the Bay Area since he was like two or something. Well, that's interesting, Gary Webb thought, but not the kind of story likely to excite my editor. Some drug dealers don't like being in j…
▶ 22:19
And the government, under the asset forfeiture program, had seized and sold his automobiles, all of his houses, all of his businesses, emptied his bank accounts, and left him without enough money to hire a lawyer. He had a court-appointed l…
▶ 22:48
He spends three or four years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. And when he gets out, someone else is living in his house. I mean, what kind of country is this? I think it would make a good story. And let me just stop right here, becaus…
▶ 26:27
I work for a law firm. I've copied every single piece of paper that's ever been filed in Raphael's case, and I can document everything I'm telling you. You can ask Raphael and he can tell you himself. What's so hard of coming over and at le…
▶ 26:53
Or because I'm too lazy to get up and chase a story that appears to be a one in a thousand chance of being true. You said you documented all of this? Absolutely. I have all the files here at home. You're welcome to look them all over. And R…
▶ 27:22
Were she a raving dope fiend, they wouldn't have let her raise an infant, which we all know not necessarily the truth, but whatever. She came back on and he asked her where she lived. She said she lived in Oakland. But Raphael's got a court…
▶ 29:12
Four inmates were indicted yesterday in connection with a bold plan to escape from a federal lockup in Pleasanton using plastic explosives and a helicopter that would have taken them to a cargo ship at sea. The group was also considered kil…
▶ 29:42
with reputed ties to Nicaraguan drug traffickers and Panamanian money launderers, was among those indicted for conspiracy to escape. The story called him a longtime drug dealer who was convicted in 1977 of cocaine trafficking in Panama. He …