Danny Gold
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10 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Danny Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Another superlip, Sean, killing it here.
In December of 1990, the U.S.
Attorney's Office announces where this case now stands in history.
72 million seized.
That's from everyone, the whole network, the second largest drug asset seizure in the history of the United States at that point, and the largest ever taken from a single criminal organization, outseized only by PolarCap, which involved the Colombian cartel's money launderers.
By the end, 18 more people are convicted in New York on top of the Rhode Island roster, 22 in all, from a case that started with a fed up wife talking to a small town cop.
And I know our audience, especially Sean, loves a good asset seizure story.
But what happens with all the money sees and assets is that it creates a windfall for these small Rhode Island police forces who are entitled to some of it.
There's a plethora of stories in the in the months and years afterwards from these small local papers of all these police departments splitting millions.
enough to build new buildings and police facilities and stuff.
Coffee's department at Little Compton, the seven member force, ends up with something around four million dollars to spend.
Funny enough, the town ends up in a big fight over how to spend it, and a town council member is quoted calling the money possibly the worst thing that ever happened to the town.
Also, Little Compton's request to spend forfeiture money on a combined police and fire building ends up changing national DOJ policy for small towns so that police departments become able to use asset forfeiture funds for non police related items.
Square.
Sergeant Rino Coffee of Little Compton and Sergeant Thomas Mungo, who we haven't heard of before, of Narragansett, the two local cops who started pulling this thread in 1983 and never let go, they get honored as heroes, they get plaques and a banquet, and the Justice Department has formally called theirs the most significant drug case of 1989.
And Coffey, 36 years old at the time, 11 years on a tiny force, gives the paper the line that should be the last shot, you know, of whatever this becomes.
Quote, Nobody thought it
Also, the original Bone Royal Island does Sandra and Cindy.
It gets sold for $10 at auction to a shrimp man from Maine, which is a great deal, really.
Which leaves the man himself, Stuart Newton, Howard Datts.
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