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WHITE CHRISTMAS

down. I was sitting in court and William never showed up. So all the judges who were supposed to get paid that morning, they didn’t. They were pissed off, man. They were all stinking mad at me and I got eight years. Then the prosecutor dragged me back to the cell and didn’t say a word.

I was speechless. I’d given the shirt off my back to help my cause and it had been working. Then I found out when I got back to jail that William died the night before. We’d just sent like $50,000 and he died before he handed them the money. All that time I had built up hope, all the money spent, all the planning for this one big court date and the guy croaks the night before. I couldn’t believe it, but it was true. Everyone was completely blown away. I thought, ‘Oh my god, my problems aren’t ending, they’re just beginning. I can’t be here for eight years. The guy who set up the Marriott bombing in Jakarta and killed 12 people got ten years.’ I’m thinking I got eight for this pillow dope, and this mass murderer got ten. I couldn’t live with that. That’s when I turned into a ghost. I was like a walking dead man.

Did you get your money back?

No, not a dime. His wife was a rotten bitch, she took all my money.
– Gabriel

Italian Juri had also been working on a deal to try to avoid literally being a walking dead man. Busted with 5 kilos of coke at the airport, he was facing Marco’s fate. His devoted family in Italy was trying to scrape together cash to help, but airport busts were intrinsically more high-profile, more scrutinised and trickier to deal. Anything less than life would create suspicion. Using the priciest lawyer in town saved him. Juri was sentenced to life in prison, with a very expensive wink that it would drop to 15 years later.

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