Defendants break code of silence
June 12, 2008 at 12:35 pm by Mara Shalhoup in BMFTestimony in the federal cocaine conspiracy trial of alleged Black Mafia Family member Fleming “Ill” Daniels continued today. So far, three witnesses with intimate knowledge of the crew have broken BMF’s once-ironclad code of silence.
All three witnesses have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in other indictments. William “Doc” Marshall, the chief executive officer of the crime ring, which was run like a corporation, recalled buying $400,000 worth of cocaine from BMF at a time. On one of those occasions, he testified, Daniels was picking up cocaine, too. BMF higher-ups sold the coke to high-level distributors out of a stash house they operated in Buckhead, Marshall told the jury.
He also described how he helped Daniels obtain a $150,000 convertible Ferrari Modena in the name of a straw purchaser.
The other witnesses, Marshall’s half-brother Karream Sheard and one of Daniels’ alleged cocaine customers, Glenn “Gino” Hamilton, also testified.
The government is expected to call more ex-members of the storied drug crew, whose motto was “Death Before Dishonor,” this afternoon.
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