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

Which doesn't sound like a lot today, but in 1980s dollars, that's a lot, you know.

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

I mean, I used to go auto racing.

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

I used my money to go race cars.

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

It was $6,000 a weekend.

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

It's like I'm looking back going, boy, if I only had that money now, right?

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

And think about the future value of the money today, $30,000 a week and $25,000.

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

Yeah, but you're always looking to make a buck, right?

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

So here maybe I'm selling half a kilo, breaking a kilo down and selling it to some friends.

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

But most of what I did was...

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

try to load as much as I could in the cars and get them to Ohio.

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

Or do a smuggling trip.

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

The time I got busted with the 1,400 pounds in mass, a friend of mine had smuggled 40,000 pounds into Canada.

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

And it was just there.

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

They couldn't sell it.

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

So one of my other friends says, hey, we're going to smuggle this back into America from Canada.

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

And I remember thinking, what?

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

They smuggled meat into Canada?

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

What?

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

You're smuggling it from Canada into America?

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

I was like, that makes no sense, but they're going to pay me.