Nicky Barnes
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title:
Nicky Barnes
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Leroy Nicholas Barnes was an American crime boss, active in New York City during the 1970s. In 1972, Barnes formed The Council, a seven-man African-American organized crime syndicate that controlled a significant part of the heroin trade in the Harlem area of New York City. Barnes led The Council into an international drug trafficking ring, in partnership with the Italian-American Mafia, until his arrest in 1977. Barnes was sentenced to life imprisonment, eventually becoming a federal informant
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American convicted drug trafficker
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Barnes
date created:
2005-06-17T20:21:03Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T11:09:15Z
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