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Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

But most of it, you know, I wasn't a big Coke dealer.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

You know, I was a marijuana guy because in the beginning, in the 70s, there wasn't that much Coke.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

As an example of the explosion of the cocaine business, when I was selling Coke, even in grams, whatever, you know, a kilo of cocaine was $57,000.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

People used to ask me, the gram was still 60 bucks.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

And he goes, is it cut?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

I go, oh my God.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Of course it's cut.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

The guy bought 1,000 grams and he's selling you one for 60.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

It's cut four to one, five to one.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

But back then, think about it.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

You could buy a kilo game for 57,000, cut it in half and sell it for 57,000, you know, and make $57,000 a kilo.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

It's a lot of money.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

I mean, that's what, but in the end,

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

the last, when I finally, you know, at the end, I would pay 11,000 a kilo.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Now, again, I'm getting it from the sources or there about, but in the marketplace in Hollywood, Florida, in the, you know, the, the drug exchange, you can make a thousand a kilo and you had to be somewhere about between 11 and 12, 10 to 12,000 to, or you wouldn't have a buyer because the guy would find it somewhere else.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

You know, when I first, so the marijuana explosion happened, right?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

I was working for Donnie Steinberg and they were bringing in hundreds of thousands of pounds at a time.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

So once I, oh, so I'll tell you what happened.