She has a bit, "Drugs and New York" on Sirius XM radio, on one of the comedy channels
She says she could tell that Delorean was into cocaine, because the horn on his DMC 12 didn't beep beep, it went Toot Toot
and the tires, they were snow tires
Ok... it sounded a hell of a lot funnier when Joan told it.
But, hey, what was going on with that whole thing about Delorean and cocaine? Turns out, the US government set out to trap him. He wasn't doing shit with drugs, the government was!
In order to seem tough on drugs, the govt agencies had to get headlines, and instead of going after actual drug lords, king pins, cartels, and anyone in Florida with money and a white powdery nose, they went for people that didn't shoot back, didn't own judges and congressmen, etc. They tried to bag business men in trouble
Enter stage right, John Delorean, designer of the GTO and Firebird, etc. 17 million dollars over budget, in debt, whatever... because the DMC 12 cost twice what a Corvette did... and no one needed it.
He was building them in Ireland, great for the local economy, but it made transporting them to the USA a bit expensive.
So, some schmuck in the USA busted for cocaine, gets a deal with the US govt who wanted recognizeable names and celebs, hears how desperate Delorean is, and strings him along. Delorean gets suspicious, tells his car company lawyer, even writes a "in case they kill or kidnap me and I go missing" letter to his lawyer when he meets with the criminal, who threatens to kill his daughter if he backs out.
The criminal brings out a suitcase, says it's full of cocaine, and his Columbian connections want Delorean to launder money, and make money, with fake stock certificates. Enter stage left, FBI agent with a "your under arrest for cocaine trafficing"
Then at the trial, the prosecution was all effed up, and evidence was tampered with, destroyed to make Delorean's innocence unproveable, etc, 47 minutes of the FBI's tapes were blanked out. A DEA agent had mentioned to a prosecution witness, before all this went down, that HE was going to bag Delorean, as he read the Wall Street Journal paper about Delorean's financial problems. Another witness, an FBI agent, destroyed his notes, (destruction of evidence) who, at the court room, was berated by his FBI boss for effing up the case... and this was caught on microphones of the press, in a room next to the courtroom. Oops!
August 1984, the jury returns a verdict, not guilty by reason of clear government entrapment
http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-in-1984-carmaker-john-delorean-acquitted-of-cocaine-smuggling-charges-by-reason-of-entrapment/
She says she could tell that Delorean was into cocaine, because the horn on his DMC 12 didn't beep beep, it went Toot Toot
and the tires, they were snow tires
Ok... it sounded a hell of a lot funnier when Joan told it.
But, hey, what was going on with that whole thing about Delorean and cocaine? Turns out, the US government set out to trap him. He wasn't doing shit with drugs, the government was!
In order to seem tough on drugs, the govt agencies had to get headlines, and instead of going after actual drug lords, king pins, cartels, and anyone in Florida with money and a white powdery nose, they went for people that didn't shoot back, didn't own judges and congressmen, etc. They tried to bag business men in trouble
Enter stage right, John Delorean, designer of the GTO and Firebird, etc. 17 million dollars over budget, in debt, whatever... because the DMC 12 cost twice what a Corvette did... and no one needed it.
He was building them in Ireland, great for the local economy, but it made transporting them to the USA a bit expensive.
So, some schmuck in the USA busted for cocaine, gets a deal with the US govt who wanted recognizeable names and celebs, hears how desperate Delorean is, and strings him along. Delorean gets suspicious, tells his car company lawyer, even writes a "in case they kill or kidnap me and I go missing" letter to his lawyer when he meets with the criminal, who threatens to kill his daughter if he backs out.
The criminal brings out a suitcase, says it's full of cocaine, and his Columbian connections want Delorean to launder money, and make money, with fake stock certificates. Enter stage left, FBI agent with a "your under arrest for cocaine trafficing"
Then at the trial, the prosecution was all effed up, and evidence was tampered with, destroyed to make Delorean's innocence unproveable, etc, 47 minutes of the FBI's tapes were blanked out. A DEA agent had mentioned to a prosecution witness, before all this went down, that HE was going to bag Delorean, as he read the Wall Street Journal paper about Delorean's financial problems. Another witness, an FBI agent, destroyed his notes, (destruction of evidence) who, at the court room, was berated by his FBI boss for effing up the case... and this was caught on microphones of the press, in a room next to the courtroom. Oops!
August 1984, the jury returns a verdict, not guilty by reason of clear government entrapment
http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-in-1984-carmaker-john-delorean-acquitted-of-cocaine-smuggling-charges-by-reason-of-entrapment/
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