Obama’s Latest Amnesty for Drug Dealers
Freeing drug dealers, terrorizing communities.
May 12, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
Charlie Brown used to run a fortified crack house in South Providence. Surveillance cameras kept an eye out for cops and a steel-reinforced door was built to keep them out. Brown had been dealing drugs for at least nine years. He had two previous drug convictions dating back to his twenties. His drug money was used to buy real estate, renovating and renting out the houses that he wasn’t using to sell drugs.
Despite all that, Brown’s lawyers tried to suggest that he lacked the “mental capacity” to understand his criminal case and suffered from lead poisoning. Mental capacity, often blamed on lead poisoning, is to modern criminal defense attorneys what phony claims of insanity used to be decades earlier.
But it didn’t work. Brown stayed in jail. Until Obama commuted his sentence.
Providence police Lt. Thomas Verdi had said, “These three defendants are notorious in Providence. This sends a message -- that these individuals who are dealing drugs and involved in violent crimes will be apprehended and face serious, serious prison sentences -- not locally, but in the federal system.”
He would have had better luck locally because Brown will be out next year. And he’ll be far from alone.
Artrez Nyroby Seymour
was part of The Organization, a group of crack dealers in Chicago Heights that modeled their operation after the movie New Jack City. The Organization operated
outside an elementary school whose children were never allowed out to play out of fear of its drug dealers.
Leonard Mason was part of a
drug trafficking network across multiple states which “used violence and intimidation to advance its cocaine business”. It sold drugs outside a school playground, three shootings were linked to the network and local
residents described hearing gunshots and being afraid to take their children out to play.
"It makes a difference that they are off the street," Rose Jones,
a local resident, commented.
But not for long. That was in 2008. Operation Bankshot was a 2 year investigation. Mason
was recorded on the phone discussing drug deals and setting a price of $22,000 for a kilogram of cocaine. Mason was caught with three kilograms of cocaine. In 2011, he
was finally sentenced to 20 years in prison.
But Obama has decided to let him go in 2016.
Gerardo Rivera was busted
smuggling $1.7 million worth of meth from Mexico by the border patrol. Despite being so obsessed with meth that he made it impossible to buy cough syrup without an ID, Obama decided to cut Rivera’s sentence in half. While law-abiding citizens can’t treat their cold without documentation, the man behind it all treats smuggling millions in meth like a minor offense.
Other beneficiaries of Obama’s pro-crime commutation policies include Steven Bernard Boyd, an associate of one of
Augusta’s major drug suppliers, Timothy "Tim Tim" Augustus, busted in the
breakup of a Hampton cocaine ring, Donald Brooks, who was
arrested when a drug ring operating across Georgia and Alabama was shut down, and
Corey Howard, an associate of notorious Indianapolis cocaine kingpin
Prentice Greer.
George Jones was part of a large cocaine distribution network in Raleigh moving two to three kilograms of crack every month. The organization’s drug dealers were armed.
Kenneth W. Kemp was the co-leader of a conspiracy to move 15 kilograms of cocaine a week around Norfolk.
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Obama’s Latest Amnesty for Drug Dealers
