Danilo Blandon person
also: Blandon, Blanton, Blandin, Daniello, Danielle
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Danilo Blandon member_of
Norwin Menendez documented
“intelligence files, computerized profiles maintained by the federal government on suspected drug traffickers. It showed both men as current associates. It also said that if Blanton had double-crossed Menendez in 82 or 83 by stealing his sou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 25:38
Danilo Blandon supplied_arms_to
Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross host_asserted
“Each one of those loads from Miami ranged from 200 to 400 kilos. These regular flights continued until at least 1984. They were not sure whether all of that was sold directly to Ross, but a huge chunk of it was because he didn't really have…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 1:35
Danilo Blandon funded
Contras host_asserted
“Same guy, same guy in the State Department. Yet it was somewhere along this time, according to Blanton, that he stopped sending the profits from his L.A. cocaine sales to the Contras. At other times, he had said that it was late 1982. Blant…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 19:54
Colombia supplied_arms_to
Danilo Blandon host_asserted
“It was a clever way for the cartels to expand their customer base in the U.S. The Colombians advanced Blanton 15 kilos worth about a million dollars, and they were off to the races. He started out getting 15 kilos a month, and within a few …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 23:12
Mentions (25)
▶ 1:04
He was selling over a million to a million and a quarter doses of crack every month. That's crazy. So during 82 to 83, Blandon said that he and Menendez brought three or four plain loads of cocaine from Miami to Los Angeles, according to th…
▶ 1:35
Each one of those loads from Miami ranged from 200 to 400 kilos. These regular flights continued until at least 1984. They were not sure whether all of that was sold directly to Ross, but a huge chunk of it was because he didn't really have…
▶ 2:07
that he was getting a little paranoid, Blandon said. Somebody from his organization was in jail. And he basically said, now, just remind you, Henry is the original go-between. He was the wholesaler. So it was Blandon, Henry, and then Ricky.…
▶ 2:39
He wanted to go literally out of the country, someplace with a low cost of living. He felt like the $200,000 or $300,000 that he accumulated would go a long way. So Henry was not turning over his customer base for free, though. He wanted Bl…
▶ 3:14
And that didn't go over very well. So basically, Blandon tried to kind of edge him out. And in the middle of this was a woman by the name of Mary Monroe. She was a friend and an employee of Ross. And so they basically are going to try to ju…
▶ 3:42
And when Henry leaves, they're just going to basically cut him out. So Ross, recalling the meeting, we had a place, one of the ladies in our neighborhood, we used to hang out in her backyard and play pool with Danielle, meaning Blandon, met…
▶ 4:13
And so basically it said everybody else was paying $3,000 for an ounce of cocaine. And we wanted to deal directly with Daniello and get it for $1,800 an ounce. So Blandon goes on a trip to South America. And it was then that he knew why Hen…
▶ 4:43
where Blandon went was a very rough area of town where firearms was everywhere. And Henry didn't like the corresponding violence that was starting to go along. Because remember, when they first started doing this whole cocaine thing, it was…
▶ 5:13
transition to focus on inner cities. And along with that came gangs and violence and stuff like that. So while Blandon was testifying under oath, he kept changing the dates of when things were supposedly happening.…
▶ 5:41
He basically said, oh, that happened in 82. No, it happened in 83. No, it happened in 84. Because he's realizing as he's talking that he's lying and it may have conflicted with something else he said. So Gary Webb says, Harry's retirement a…
▶ 7:10
the whole, he had a whole factory of cooking the crack cocaine. He had like a manufacturing line. He didn't leave anything out. And you can tell by the book and the way Gary Webb writes about him that he grudgingly respected his business de…
▶ 19:54
Same guy, same guy in the State Department. Yet it was somewhere along this time, according to Blanton, that he stopped sending the profits from his L.A. cocaine sales to the Contras. At other times, he had said that it was late 1982. Blant…
▶ 20:23
In 1983, according to him, this is what he's saying, the Contras gets a lot of money from the U.S., he told a federal grand jury in 1994. And they were, when Reagan got into power, Mr. Reagan got into power, we start receiving a lot of mone…
▶ 20:52
He speaks some broken English. That's not me. End of quote. The U.S. attorney asked him, was they getting the money from the government? He said, yes, for the Contra Revolution. Okay. So we started, you know, the ambitious person. We starte…
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Blanton told the CIA inspectors that the FDN commander, Bermudez, came to California sometime in 83 and told him personally that it wasn't necessary for the L.A. group to raise any more money. The FDN needed people, not money, because the C…
▶ 21:50
Asked when Blanton stopped giving money to the Contras, Menendez replied, never as far as I know. Blanton said that he was working for Menendez at the time the Contras cocaine kickbacks ended. I continued to work for a period of time, about…
▶ 22:19
Blandon said he owed Menendez around $100,000 and couldn't seem to reduce the debt because I didn't make any money. We're going to hear this story a few more times. Poor Blandon. The Colombians were happy to help in supplying cocaine. Bland…
▶ 22:45
When I fight with Norwin, the Colombian people started, you know, pushing me along, trying to cross Norwin. And they go with me and talk to me that I can make it myself. Asking Colombians for cocaine on credit was not difficult. They were u…
▶ 23:12
It was a clever way for the cartels to expand their customer base in the U.S. The Colombians advanced Blanton 15 kilos worth about a million dollars, and they were off to the races. He started out getting 15 kilos a month, and within a few …
▶ 23:40
But several parts of Blanton's story doesn't add up. He testified that when he was supplying Henry Corrales in 1983, Ross was already selling up to seven kilos a day. So where is he getting all the crack? Blanton said that he had other cust…
▶ 24:09
Before his purported split from Menendez, he had been selling far larger quantities of cocaine than what he admitted. So Blanton was asked, do you remember if you were getting large amounts or small amounts from Menendez? His reply was, at …
▶ 24:37
During his federal grand jury appearance in 94, Blanton was asked to estimate how much total you would have gotten from Norwin during the time he was receiving cocaine from him. How many I received from Norwin, he asked? Yes. Well, it was I…
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But Blanton didn't make his first sell until the spring of 1982 and spent a year to 18 months dealing only in small amounts, according to previous testimony. In fact, evidence turned up by the FBI and DEA in later years showed that Blanton …
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intelligence files, computerized profiles maintained by the federal government on suspected drug traffickers. It showed both men as current associates. It also said that if Blanton had double-crossed Menendez in 82 or 83 by stealing his sou…
▶ 26:07
which they were because they owned joint property in Latin America. What appears to have happened is that Blanton acquired additional sources of supply sometime in 84 and became his own boss in L.A. when Menendez remained in charge of the S…