The Council

The Council was an association of seven African-American gangsters in Harlem , New York City .

The gang was formed by Leroy Barnes in the 1970s when Barnes was released after serving an extended prison term.

history

In prison, Barnes had met the high-ranking mobster Joseph Gallo ( Colombo family ), who brought him closer to the organizational form of the US Mafia . Another detainee at the time was Matthew Madonna - a drug dealer in the Lucchese family - who later remained the gang's contact and supplied them with drugs. In this way the gang acted as the extended arm of the mafia , but the collaboration was not free of conflict. The gang soon dominated the drug trade in Harlem, with business ties extending to Pennsylvania , western Arizona and Canada .

Chief Barnes was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1978; since, in his opinion, the gang members failed to keep their obligations to him, he became a key witness and Pentito . He provided a list of over 100 names, on the basis of which numerous arrests were made. Barnes was released early in 1985; the gang was broken by the mid-1980s.

Competing gangsters and gangs in Harlem were numerous; In particular, Frank Lucas , a follower of "Bumpy" Johnson - in contrast to the council - had managed to get heroin without going through the mafia.

In 2007, Leroy Barnes and Frank Lucas met for an interview for New York Magazine . The interviewer was Mark Jacobson. In 2008, Barnes was interviewed by Howard Stern on Stern's Sirius Satellite Radio Show.

Members

Leroy "Nicky" Barnes (1933–2012)
Guy Fisher (born 1947); lifelong prison sentence
Thomas "Gaps" Foreman
Joseph "Jazz" Hayden
Frank James
Ishmael Muhammed
Wallace Rice; lifelong prison sentence

Adaptations

In the first episode of the first season of the US documentary series Dangerous Gangs - first broadcast November 1, 2007 - the Council is particularly treated.

literature

Leroy "Nicky" Barnes and Tom Folsom : Mr. Untouchable: My Crimes and Punishments , Rugged Land, March 6, 2007, ISBN 1-59071-041-X

Individual evidence

↑ Howard Abadinsky: crime Organized , 9th ed .. edition, Wadsworth / Cengage Learning, Belmont, Calif. 2010, ISBN 978-0-495-59966-1 , p. 196.
↑ Ron Chepesiuk: The war on drugs: an international encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif. 1999, ISBN 978-0-87436-985-4 , p. 10.
↑ "Lords of Dopetown" New York Magazine , November 5th of 2007.
↑ SCHTICKING TO HER MAN The Howard Stern Show for January 31, 2008 . Howardstern.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2011.

[abadinsky-1] Howard Abadinsky: crime Organized , 9th ed .. edition, Wadsworth / Cengage Learning, Belmont, Calif. 2010, ISBN 978-0-495-59966-1 , p. 196.

[chepesiuk-2] Ron Chepesiuk: The war on drugs: an international encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif. 1999, ISBN 978-0-87436-985-4 , p. 10.

[nym2007-3] "Lords of Dopetown" New York Magazine , November 5th of 2007.

[4] SCHTICKING TO HER MAN The Howard Stern Show for January 31, 2008 . Howardstern.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2011.