You are both incorrect, to be charged with "trafficking" in the federal system, can be as little 5 grams or 500 grams, it would be an
841: Possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute
846: Conspiracy to distribute controlled substance
960: Importation of controlled substances
952: conspiracy to import controlled substances
Gonzalez was charged in a CCE, which is continuing criminal enterprise, which is the DEA version of the RICO, statute 848
it doesn't have to cross state lines, at all.
They may have the prerogative to charge you with trafficking for 5 grams but I never seen anybody on a trafficking rap for some small shyt...
In the county jails in Albany NY and Charlotte NC they house Fed and State inmates together (well, they did in '12 when I was in Alb and in '14-15 when I was in Charlotte), so I was able to see alota different cats with Fed joints...
When I was in Charlotte, the local police (CMPD) put a fed inquiry into the local FBI office to see if I was involved in a gun trafficking ring from Georgia to North Carolina. They declined to pick up my case for a lack of evidence, but I didn't find this out for several months and spent multiple days a week in the library trying to see the variety of possibilities they could charge me with (Feds)...
In a general sense I always took trafficking to just mean large loads of narcotics, not that it had to cross state lines, which is "interstate" trafficking...
If someone who isn’t your peoples snitches on you, they’re fair game imo.
Keep in mind I’m not an underworld criminal so my view holds no weight, but I’m just saying on principle I feel like if a business associate who isn’t your fam tells on you, all bets are off.
The Mexican plug snitched on him and didn’t snitch on his own plug, so he doesn’t owe him shyt imo. I know that violates the code and everything but I digress.
I don’t know if you watched Vlad’s interview with Johnny Alite, the Albanian Gambino family hitman. He said he never told and never got caught with anything, but Mafia cats told on him so he told back. He was like he’s not Italian and these Mafia dudes violated their own oath by ratting him out so he wasn’t gonna sit in jail for the rest of his life over it. I feel him, if that’s true. But I’m not a street guy so whatever.
I disagree but I get what you're saying...
There's holes in Geezy story and at any rate, the Feds didn't need Geezy to knock the "big" plug, the evidence of that is that they didn't even use his testimony (Geezy own words). And there's no proof that Geezy's statements to them brought Big Plug in or that Junior Plug didn't already implicate him...
Regardless, accepting responsibility for your actions to me is what you should do in his situation. Read his indictment, this nikka literally had years to quit and do something else with himself...
The John Alite series is one of Vlad's best series ever, alota that shyt was relatable. Alite a snitch too, the mistake these guys make is expecting other criminals like yourself to uphold morals and values, ESPECIALLY when you aren't "one of their own" like Alite wasn't. You typically learn this shyt at an early age if you jumped off the porch young like these guys say...
I will say, while I don't have the experience of shooting and/or killing 30 people, listening to him talk about some of his experiences is really familiar in my own mind's eye. Just like with running drugs, when you get used to reacting with violence it has no real effect on you in the moment, and once you've separated yourself from it as I have (and apparently he has), it isn't all that difficult to talk about...