Brian (Waterhead Bo) Bennett So who was the biggest black kingpin of all time? Just how do you measure that? Money, volume of dope, power, cultural impact? Perhaps it was Frank Matthews… you can learn more about him in my documentary “The Frank Matthews Story” link. But in terms of documented transactions that we know about for sure, who was convicted in court: One man stands alone. Brian “Waterhead Bo” Bennett. Bennett and his Colombian Partner, Mario Villabona, were eventually convicted of moving nearly l5 thousand kilos that they talked about on certain wiretaps between December of 1987 and November of 1988. Some of the loads were as large as 1000 kilos and cheaper than $9,000 dollars each wholesale. That’s 1500 keys a month for nearly a year. And that’s just on the wiretapped phones. Who knows how much he really sold in total. Claims are made about this one and that one selling more, but 15,000 keys sold for sure is the most we know about for any black dealer. Waterhead B...
The project will bring at least 178 permanent jobs to a neighborhood where chronic unemployment provides a steady stream of recruits for murderous street gangs. It will replace a coal-fired power plant that spewed soot and sulfur dioxide into the neighborhood for nearly a century, and that’s been rotting away since closing in 2012. But to neighborhood activist Kim Wasserman, this e-commerce incursion into Little Village is still a prime example of environmental racism. 
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