The Cornbread Mafia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cornbread Mafia write by James Higdon. This book was released on 2019-05-01. The Cornbread Mafia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon—whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration—takes readers back to the 1970s and ’80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked. How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail.
The Origins of the Cornbread Mafia
The Origins of the Cornbread Mafia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origins of the Cornbread Mafia write by Joe Keith Bickett. This book was released on 2016-08-24. The Origins of the Cornbread Mafia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "On a September night in 1978, Muhammad Ali would attempt to reclaim his title from Leon Spinks in one of the greatest heavyweight matches of all-times. That same night a crew of over twenty five country boys from in and around central Kentucky would also attempt to reclaim a huge marijuana field that had been seized by local law enforcement. This book, or as the author calls it, "A Memoir of Sorts" is a first-hand account of the events surrounding "The Origins of The Cornbread Mafia" and how it led to the biggest home grown marijuana operation in U.S. history."--Amazon.
Cornbread Mafia
Cornbread Mafia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cornbread Mafia write by Joe Keith Bickett. This book was released on 2018-08-12. Cornbread Mafia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cornbread Mafia, The Outlaws of Central Kentucky is author Joe Keith Bickett's sequel to his first book, The Origins of The Cornbread Mafia, A Memoir of Sorts. As the 1980s come onto the scene, the Cornbread Mafia is faced with new obstacles from the Federal Government in order to keep their marijuana business flourishing. President Ronald Regan declares his "War on Drugs" and with it comes the Comprehensive Crime Control Act and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which significantly increase federal penalties and mandatory minimum sentences for those caught in the cultivation and distribution of marijuana. The stakes just got much higher for the Cornbread crew. Despite the looming threat from the Feds, along with the side-effects from the heavy use of cocaine by many of the members, the Cornbread Mafia expands their operations in the 80s into several Midwestern states and continues to smuggle, cultivate and distribute marijuana. In this memoir, Bickett reveals a Federal criminal justice system that, from his perspective, is willing to go far beyond the bounds of law and ethics to bust a bunch of pot farmers from Middle America. Joe Keith Bickett, along with Bobby Joe Shewmaker, Johnny Boone, Tommy Lee, Jimmy Bickett, Fred Elder and several others who requested to remain anonymous, tell the unbelievable and sometimes humorous stories of their experiences in the marijuana business through the 1980s and how they all became a part of the largest marijuana cartel in US history. This collaboration of several participants of the Cornbread Mafia is the true story of The Cornbread Mafia, the Outlaws of Central Kentucky.
The Cornbread Mafia
The Cornbread Mafia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cornbread Mafia write by James Higdon (III.). This book was released on 2014-05-10. The Cornbread Mafia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, a band of Kentucky farmers descended from Prohibition-era moonshiners versus the War on Drugs.
Cornbread Mafia The Quest For Freedom
Cornbread Mafia The Quest For Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cornbread Mafia The Quest For Freedom write by Joe Keith Bickett. This book was released on 2022-10-04. Cornbread Mafia The Quest For Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of "The Origins Of The Cornbread Mafia" and "Cornbread Mafia, The Outlaws of Central Kentucky", comes Joe Keith Bickett's third book, "Cornbread Mafia, The Quest For Freedom, A Prisoner's Memoir". After becoming the largest domestic marijuana cartel in U.S. History, the federal government convicted Bickett and many more Kentucky men and women and sentenced them to harsh sentences for their roles as members of the famed Cornbread Mafia. While many have heard the stories of the Cornbread Mafia's origins, its rise to fame and ultimate downfall, "Quest For Freedom" dives deep into the violent and murky world of the federal prison system where Bickett and many more were incarcerated for decades. Cornbread Mafia, The Quest For Freedom is a true and untold story of mass incarceration of marijuana offenders and others during the "War on Drugs" in the 1990s and beyond. Bickett details an unforgiving justice system as he and many other cannabis and drug offenders struggle for their freedom while in the "belly of the beast." After being convicted in the early 1990s as a member of the Cornbread Mafia, Bickett was sentenced to serve twenty-five, (25) years in federal prison along with his brother Jimmy who was sentenced to twenty (20) years. At the time, Johnny Boone, "The Godfather of Grass" was serving a twenty (20) year sentence for his role in the Cornbread Mafia. Bobby Joe Shewmaker was sentenced to thirty (30) years, Tommy Lee to twenty-one (21) years and many more members incarcerated for the cultivation and distribution of marijuana. Bickett's first-hand account, Cornbread Mafia, The Quest For Freedom, chronicles the members of the Cornbread Mafia's new lives behind the imposing and restricted walls of federal prison as they struggle-by any means possible--for that ultimate goal of freedom--once again.
