Histoires de Gangsters Leroy Nicholas Nicky Barnes
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00:02 - Nicky Barnes was the biggest heroin dealer in the country.
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00:08 I had a real big reputation, a real big time.
00:10 I was getting a real big buck.
00:13 - His heroin was the cheapest heroin on the market,
00:15 but that's the one that was the best.
00:17 He's raking in millions.
00:20 - Nicky and his people killed people
00:22 as they needed to kill people.
00:24 It was a matter of doing business.
00:26 He was just as ruthless as he had to be.
00:29 He was a big business guy,
00:30 surrounded by gorgeous showbiz girls.
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00:35 - Nicky took seven top heroin dealers in Harlem
00:38 and set up a big black mafia.
00:40 Nicky was the black Al Capone of Harlem.
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01:15 - Barnes kept getting invoiced about heroin.
01:25 She said it was not a good heroin.
01:27 It was giving people high.
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01:41 - They shot him until he was close to his shirt
01:57 and he was going to die.
01:59 You know, by attacking an Italian,
02:00 that's a declaration of war against the mafia.
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02:07 - Now I know how easy it is
02:15 to take somebody's life
02:17 and how easy it is to think that's prestigious to do it.
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14:29 - The black culture was his calling.
14:53 He was a big shop guy.
14:55 He was the big guy.
14:57 The women around him were gorgeous.
14:59 He was the hobo type.
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15:04 - We went to the Cope boat.
15:09 We had dinner.
15:10 You know, we did some cocaine,
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15:53 - I started thinking about how I might get
15:57 a group of guys that could insulate me.
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20:44 - On Fifth Avenue, you know,
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20:56 He's got the money to burn.
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41:11 - We relied on him to give us instructions
41:25 and then we would then conduct surveillance
41:28 or other forms of surveillance
41:30 to see what they were doing.
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41:38 - I said, I have bad news for you.
41:57 Shemekah was very badly killed.
41:59 Barnes was very devastated.
42:01 He cried.
42:02 He immediately said that his death
42:04 was a message to his attention.
42:06 - This is a sign to make Nikki Barnes understand
42:09 that it's best to stop selling to the federal government.
42:12 - But Nikki continues.
42:14 In the following year,
42:17 he helped to set up fake deals
42:19 with DEA agents and syndicates
42:21 so that the authorities could collect
42:23 evidence against the council.
42:25 On March 10, 1983,
42:27 Guy Fischer and four other members of the council
42:30 were sentenced to death.
42:32 When the news spread,
42:36 some former associates of Nikki were stunned
42:38 to learn that the king of Harlem
42:40 had killed his oldest accomplices.
42:42 - I was in the yard,
42:48 in Louisburg, in Pennsylvania,
42:50 when I heard the news.
42:54 I refused to believe it.
42:57 When the news was made official in the press,
43:00 a lot of people were shocked.
43:02 Two years later,
43:06 Nikki went to the bar to testify
43:08 against his former blood brothers.
43:10 During his testimony,
43:13 Nikki was overwhelmed with emotion
43:15 and burst into tears.
43:17 - He was publicly
43:19 helping the authorities to prosecute
43:23 his old friends,
43:25 his best friends in the world.
43:27 And he was the other side of the barrier.
43:29 The jury declares the members of the council,
43:37 Frank James, Wally Rice,
43:39 Ishmael Mohamed and Guy Fischer,
43:41 guilty of conducting criminal activities.
43:44 They all have a life sentence
43:48 without a conditional possibility.
43:50 For the next 13 years,
43:53 Nikki continues to be the master card
43:55 of the authorities.
43:57 In 1985,
43:59 dressed in a hood and black clothes
44:01 to ensure his protection,
44:03 Nikki appears as a witness
44:05 before a presidential commission
44:07 investigating the organized crime.
44:09 He testifies in about twenty trials
44:11 which are sold by the conviction
44:13 of almost 50 dealers,
44:15 more or less important than his former empire.
44:17 In exchange for his collaboration,
44:19 prosecutors ask a federal judge
44:21 to release Nikki.
44:23 The judge acquiesces
44:28 and in 1998, after 21 years in prison,
44:30 Nikki Barnes joins at 66 years old
44:32 the witness protection program.
44:34 Mister Untouchable,
44:40 former boss of the largest heroin traffic in America,
44:42 now lives incognito
44:44 in a suburb.
44:46 He has a new name,
44:48 a normal job,
44:50 he earns daily
44:52 and lives modestly from his salary.
44:54 I enjoy the freedom to change my life.
44:57 Nikki Barnes is
45:00 the average American mister now.
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