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Radio Show.
Hosted by Michael Levine - one of the most
highly decorated DEA agents in that agency's history, and co-hosted
by Producer / Engineer Mark Marshall.
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of this site is the archive section. It contains audio from shows
dating back well over two years... front line testimony on government
& police corruption, the "war on drugs", and covert
operations worldwide.
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American
Gangster.
It's a nice story, but it's a lie.
Listen
(mp3 - 20mb)
In September 1975, Dominic
Amorosa personally led the federal prosecution of Frank Lucas -
a hardcore heroin kingpin - and 18 co-defendants.
Imagine his surprise when the film
American Gangster was released,
and it not only portrayed Lucas as some kind of antihero - but it showed
the arrest of Lucas as being accomplished by New Jersey law enforcement
authorities, when, in fact, it was it was DEA, together with the United
States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which
apprehended, prosecuted and tried Frank Lucas and his suppliers.
Further - American Gangster goes on to portray a vicious
and brutal search, indicates that the officers involved were associated
with New York City's Special Investigations Unit (which was admittedly
corrupt, but had long since been disbanded), that Frank Lucas smuggled
in heroin in the coffins of dead Vietnam G.I.s (see below
for an interesting personal note on this), and, finally, states that 3/4
of New York DEA agents were prosecuted for corruption as a result of Lucas'
testimony - none of which never happened.
These are but a few of the outright fabrications in American
Gangster. And Dominic Amorosa is but one of the folks who are not content
to sit back and watch it happen.
Tonight, Mike and Mark speak with yet another front-line
guest, to get the REAL story about the Frank Lucas investigation and prosecution
- and defend some honest law enforcement folks in the process.
About the Guest:
From 1972 through 1974, Dominic Amorosa was an Assistant
United States Attorney in the District of New Jersey where he prosecuted
numerous criminal cases.
From 1974 through September 1981, Mr. Amorosa was an Assistant
United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York where for
several years he was assigned to the Fraud Unit. He later became Chief
of the Narcotics Unit from 1979 to 1980 and Chief of the Organized Crime
Unit from 1980 to 1981.
From September 1981 to the present, Mr. Amorosa has been
in private practice specializing in complex litigation cases.
He also represents Gregory
Korniloff, a former New York City DEA Agent. Mr. Korniloff
was the case agent for DEA on Lucas' federal case and personally participated
in the search of Lucas' house conducted in January 1975 pursuant to a
valid federal search warrant, and the arrest of Lucas on that same day.
During this search $585,000.00 in currency was seized, which was later
physically introduced into evidence during Lucas' federal criminal trial
in the Southern District of New York in September 1975.
Links:
Dominic
Amorosa's Website
Dominic Amorosa's letter to NBC/Universal - HTML
- PDF
Sidenote:
 The
photo at right was taken of Mike Levine (back to camera) in 1970, in the
restaurant at the Siam Intercontinental Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.
Posing as an American "Mafioso", Mike negotiated for heroin from "Mr Geh"
(right), whose organization was the source
for all the heroin smuggled into the US in the body bags and body cavities
of our boys killed in Vietnam.
The case was finally killed by CIA, when, during a late night meeting
in the American Embassy, Mike was told that our nation had "other priorities."
For a few more archived undercover photos, click
here.
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