Nicky Barnes And Frank Lucas Interview
Barnes participated in a biography and documentary and gave the times an interview.
Nicky barnes and frank lucas interview. The daughters of nicky barnes. In a documentary about rival gangster nicky barnes cuba gooding jr. In 1972 barnes formed the council a seven man african american organized crime syndicate that controlled a significant part of the heroin trade in the harlem area of new york city.
The report of barnes death came a week after the death at 88 of frank lucas. Howard got leroy nicky barnes on the phone from an undisclosed location as nicky s currently in the witness protection program. Untouchable the real nicky barnes said that frank was actually the more flamboyant of the two of them.
Barnes led the council into an international drug trafficking ring in partnership. Howard asked nicky if he knew frank lucas the subject of american gangster so nicky explained that he did and frank was a less powerful dealer than nicky despite what the movie depicts. Nicky barnes is not.
But nicky got. When frank lucas death prompted questions of whatever happened to nicky barnes. In the movie titled mr.
The real frank lucas responded to nicky s accusation in an mtv interview nicky was a flamboyant guy who was kind of live. As his two daughters tell it in their first extensive interview. In a joint interview with rival drug kingpin frank lucas in new york magazine barnes explained that he became a federal witness after feeling betrayed by his associates especially fisher.
Both made millions selling dope lived the wide brimmed hat high life. Leroy nicholas nicky barnes born october 15 1933 is an american former crime boss in new york city during the 1970s.
