The Rayful Edmond Story
Rayful Edmond III (born November 26, 1964) is an American former drug trafficker in Washington, D. C. in the 1980s. Edmond is largely credited with introducing crack cocaine into the Washington, D. C. area during the crack epidemic, resulting in an escalating crime rate in the city which became known as the murder capital of the United States. Edmond was alleged to have moved large amounts of cocaine. In an indictment involving two of Edmond s associates, it was said that they bought between 1, 000 and 2, 000 kilos per week in 1992 from the TrujilloBlanco brothers, who were associated with the Medellin cartel, and sold the drugs to Washington area wholesalers. He was known to have spent some 457, 619 in an exclusive Georgetown store (Linea Pitti, specializing in Italian men s clothing) owned by Charles Wynn who was later convicted on 34 counts of money laundering. Edmond s estimated revenue was approximately 300 million annually. In one year, Edmond s organization, which employed
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