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Failed ex-President Donald Trump has been indicted on felony charges for the third time this year. The latest indictment is the most significant with the most serious charges. It accuses Trump of conspiring with six other unnamed co-conspirators to illegally thwart the legitimate election of Joe Biden as President of the United States in 2020. Special prosecutor Jack Smith crafted the indictment to keep it focused on Trump and on provable allegations, with an eye toward a swift trial ahead of the 2024 election. Former deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal called it the most significant criminal indictment ever handed up in the United States. Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley called it a significant historic event.
White Boy Rick Wershe, recruited at age 14 to be an FBI drug informant, later spent over 30 years in prison. Now he’s suing the FBI and Detroit Police in a lawsuit with claims at odds with his sworn testimony at his parole hearing. This video explains.
The Detroit Free Press, Oralandar Brand-Williams, July 20, 2021 – Rick Wershe was an FBI informant at 14. Now he’s suing feds, Detroit police for child abuse (PDF)
‘White Boy,’ a true-crime documentary directed by Shawn Rech, tells us the fascinating story of Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe Jr., who gained tremendous notoriety in the 1980s as an alleged drug kingpin who was also an FBI informant. He was arrested for possession of cocaine when he was 17 years old and was sentenced to life without parole under the rather harsh 650-Lifer Law in Michigan. If you’re curious to know where he is now, we’ve got you covered. 1
Prisoner of War: The Story of White Boy Rick and the War on Drugs – Available from Amazon.com
The tale of a Detroit boy recruited by the FBI—at age 14—to be a paid informant against a politically-connected drug gang is so amazing it inspired a Hollywood film—White Boy Rick—starring Matthew McConaughey as the teen’s father.
What kind of father would take FBI cash to let his youngest child be an undercover operative in the murderous drug underworld? This book answers the question.
White Boy Rick became the Detroit FBI’s most productive drug informant of the ‘80s, but as the book explains, things went awry amid FBI misdeeds. Rick tried to become a cocaine wholesaler, got caught and has spent 30 years behind bars. He became a Prisoner of War: The War on Drugs. Rick Wershe is the central character in a wide-ranging exploration of the nearly half-century trillion-dollar policy failure known as the War on Drugs. It explains “testilying”, the widespread perjury felony committed by the police in pursuit of drug felonies, it examines CIA pressure to get charges dropped in a Detroit drug case and it shows how a basketball star’s drug death led to mass incarceration.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains the key demands that we must make of Congress’ new coronavirus relief package. The bill must:
— Contain COVID-19 — Extend $600/week in unemployment benefits — Provide rent relief and extend the federal eviction moratorium — Shore up state and local budgets — Prioritize public health and economic wellbeing over the national debt
This is the bare minimum of what our government must do to get us through this crisis.
The window to act is closing. Call your members of Congress before it’s too late: (202) 224-3121
