Wild Bill

Another thing that I used to do, and I did this regularly, was hunt contracts on people who had run from the mafia in the United States.

I had a good contact back in Florida and another one in New Jersey.

And those guys had contracts out on a lot of people.

And a lot of those guys would run, especially to Costa Rica.

And I would hunt them down, the contracts.

I would always look at them.

When there was a new contract up and the people thought that they were in Central or South America, they would send me the information and I would keep my eyes open.

And very often I would run across that person and collect on the contract.

That's how I worked.

The cartel wasn't... I started off as just a worker.

And through a comedy of errors, I did a job once.

And after the job was done, I was going to call and collect.

It was a mafia job from the United States, just like I told you, I was telling you about.

It was a job where a man had ratted on, I don't want to say who, I don't like to talk about things from the past, so we'll leave the things ambiguous.

A man had ratted on associates from Florida that had been in the 1990s, and he'd put quite a few people away.

And the DEA gave him a new identity, made him a new person.

he had located here in central america somewhere i won't say again i'm actually serving time for this murder so i mean i can talk about it but i don't want to be disrespectful of the dead anyway so i did the job and then i found inside the house a safe with six hundred thousand dollars in cash in it so from one day to the next i went from being a worker to being a patron one of the one of the members of the cartel with that amount of money that made me very very powerful man

from one day to the next.

And so that's really how I made my bones in the cartel, if you will.

I remember when I did that job, I did that job and I walked away with $600,000 plus the property.