The gang’s wealth exceeded $2 billion at its peak. Members spent less time threatening rivals than meeting in attorneys’ ...
The Last Kilo' by T.J. English Navigating these attitudes was a primary concern when I began researching The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire that Seduced America (out Dec. 3 from ...
Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta grew up in Florida after their families fled Fidel Castro’s communist regime in Cuba. The two friends then built one of America’s biggest cocaine empires ...
In 1967, the Falcon family fled Cuba during the revolution when Willy was just eleven, settling in ‘Little Havana’ in Miami. Within a few years, he would be hustling when the emerging cocaine ...
Augusto Guillermo “Willy” Falcon tapped into this country’s cocaine boom around the time Al Pacino was becoming Tony Montana in “Scarface” and “Miami Vice” was becoming a hit series ...