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George Jung Released From Prison

  • 03-06-2014 11:29pm
    #1
    DazMarz
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    George Jung (who's life was immortalised in the 2001 film Blow, starring Johnny Depp as Jung) has been released from Fort Dix Federal Correctional Facility, New Jersey, after serving 20 years of a 60-year sentence. In 1994, he had been arrested in possession of over 790kg of cocaine.

    Known as "Boston George", Jung was one of the biggest players in the drug trade in the United States from the 1960's up to the 1990's, starting off with dealing in marijuana before graduating to smuggling cocaine into the States from the Medellín Cartel in Colombia. Jung was a smuggler for Pablo Escobar in his prime.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung


Comments

  • #2
    Mr. Incognito
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    Now he's George Old


  • #3
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    DazMarz wrote: »
    In 1994, he had been arrested in possession of over 790kg of cocaine.

    That was alot to have stuffed up the derriere.


  • #4
    desultory
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    Serious business man. To climb to the heights of what he did considering where he came from was nothing short of impressive. Good to see him released :)


  • #5
    Bipolar Joe
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    desultory wrote: »
    Serious business man. To climb to the heights of what he did considering where he came from was nothing short of impressive. Good to see him released :)

    There's a fair amount of wealthy drug dealers here in Ireland. It's great, isn't it?


  • #6
    desultory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 340 ✭✭desultory


    Bipolar Joe wrote: »
    There's a fair amount of wealthy drug dealers here in Ireland. It's great, isn't it?

    None that have ever reached his height. None that ever will either.
    Why would it be great anyway!? :confused:


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  • #7
    Bipolar Joe
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    desultory wrote: »
    None that have ever reached his height. None that ever will either.
    Why would it be great anyway!? :confused:

    I was being sarcastic.


  • #8
    ardle1
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    No human should have to spend 20 years behind bars for any reason.... apart from murder and a few other heinous crimes when not under the influence off drink or drugs!


  • #9
    Riddle101
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    ardle1 wrote: »
    No human should have to spend 20 years behind bars for any reason.... apart from murder and a few other heinous crimes when not under the influence off drink or drugs!

    20 years is a fair amount of time to spend in prison I would say, at least in George Jung's case. As far as drug trafficking/smuggling goes, I think 20 years is good enough. Although maybe 60 years was over doing it, but 20 is fine.


  • #10
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Now he's George Old
    No he's still a Jung man.


  • #11
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Hopefully he sorts things out with the daughter before he gets caught again


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  • #12
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    I know the movie was dramatised and all that but i did feel sorry for the guy at the end when
    he looks round the room at all his old mates and realises they all screwed him over and he was screwed


  • #13
    desultory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 340 ✭✭desultory


    Bipolar Joe wrote: »
    I was being sarcastic.

    I don't know why you quoted me in that case.


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