Ken Behr

to Massachusetts, you know, you stall these things.

When you're in a criminal case, you stall it for years if you can, because you buy time.

Proof, hey, look, he didn't get in trouble, Your Honor.

He's been out for years.

You know, the prosecutors change.

It just, the more time, the better.

So what I was literally doing, though, to fund the legal fees

for the lawyers was at one point i would fly to washington dc where a friend of mine had brought in a load of coke and he had two warehouses one with the coke and one with the money drop i would fly up there meet my drivers or meet any customers i'd have they'd come over grab a couple kilos of coke pay me or i'd front it to him whatever and then fly to court in the suit in court you know you know your honor will postpone whatever my court hearing was for i

fly back to DC, finish up the deal and fly home.

I'm literally doing a cocaine deal in the middle of being on bond for the smuggling the weed in.

And I beat that case, but then in 92, I didn't have any way out.

I was looking at Rico, which minimum mandatory 25 years in prison.

How old were you?

I was 32, maybe.

That would have been a good chunk of your... That would have been my whole life.

I had a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter.

I'd just been married two weeks, you know, and...

I didn't have a plan.

I hired my same lawyer, Michael Giletti, he's still in practice, one of the best in the business, went out about one of the most talented lawyers in the world.

And he told you you're fucked?