Episode #208
"Freeway" Rick Ross
Books mentioned
Dark Alliance
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Former Los Angeles drug distributor “Freeway” Rick Ross recounts his rise in the crack trade, his involvement in CIA-connected trafficking, and his arrest and decades-long prison sentence. He discusses learning to read in prison, overturning his wrongful life sentence, and issues involving police corruption, asset forfeiture, private prisons, and the war on drugs.
What they talked about
- Rick Ross name stolen by rappers
- CIA crack cocaine connection
- Illiteracy and tennis career
- Crack cooking and selling
- Freeway Task Force and police corruption
- Three strikes loophole and prison
- Prison violence and USP
- Social network and post-prison life
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