 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter We're gonna bring you some big big breaking black mafia family news For the for the first time in a decade we have a BMF case That involves The number two overall from the organization from its founding Chad J. Bo Brown The underboss of the black mafia family has been out of prison on the original Black mafia family bust. He did 11 years. He's been out for about six years and He might be going back to prison Last week. He was the headlining defendant in a big Fraud and narcotics case that came out of federal court in st. Louis 35 people were indicted now. Let's be very clear J. Bo was not indicted on any drug counts Even though he's the number one defendant in the case. He he has been indicted on bank fraud as well as IRS fraud related to false paperwork that he filed trying to get a PPP loan, but I can't overestimate What a big deal this is in the world of black mafia family in the world of the American narcotics trade BMF, you know, was the pinnacle the biggest urban narcotics organization in American history The whole Group was dismantled in 2005 via the operation Motor City mafia bust took down over a hundred BMF members including all the leaders For for those that might not know BMF started in Detroit in 1990 and then by the dawning of the new millennium had expanded Around the country. They were the biggest wholesale narcotics biggest wholesale cocaine Distributors in America from the late 90s until the bus in 2005 They had established satellite crews in two dozen major cities. Their hubs were Detroit Atlanta LA and st. Louis and J. Bo was the founding member of the st. Louis group He knew the Flannery brothers who were Detroiters from a very early age and Detroit and st. Louis kind of came together to birth what became black mafia family and You know Jbo other than Big Meach and his brother Southwest T It doesn't get more high profile in the world of BMF than Chad Brown aka Jbo Jbo stands for junior boss He was the number two in charge. He ran the organization on a daily basis All the logistics all of the go-betweens for for Meach and his lieutenants for Terry and his lieutenants were all going through Jbo young GZ who you know Kind of invented the The trap rap scene inspired by BMF was allegedly a part of BMF has a song that came out about eight years ago called Jbo and with the The chorus being ball like Jbo. I like the ball like Jbo. So, you know, he's somebody that's firmly entrenched in pop culture And I said it's been out for about six years and then this case just came down and I think it speaks to the fact that even though BMF as the Fully virtually vertically integrated group this monolith of a drug organization, even though The roof caved in in 2005 Over the last 18 years you have remnants of BMF That still exists and a lot of those remnants Are from the major original BMF hubs So here in Detroit in Atlanta and then in Jbo's neck of the woods in st. Louis and the last BMF bus came down in around 2014. I believe and was a st. Louis Cell or you know subunit of BMF that was that had a had averted arrest in the 2005 bus and continued on in their drug trafficking activities in Coordination it looks like with with Big Meach in prison. That's come out in the last, you know, six months. So big news in terms of the criminal justice system and the black mafia family some smaller news related to BMF you had the release of One of the final members of BMF that still locked up in the operation Motor City Mafia bus case that came down in The fall of 05 Paul PJ Buford. He was recently released from prison after 15 years He was Southwest T's right-hand man top lieutenant out in LA in the latter stages of that BMF BMF rain, but you know kind of came on the scene we're talking about PJ Buford as The head of security for bad boy records and a personal bodyguard to puppy combs P. Diddy Sean P. Diddy combs We've talked here on the og pod We've talked to a number of law enforcement that have confirmed to us that they were being told by informants that Black mafia family gave Puffy combs the seed money or some of the seed money to start bad boy records The iconic bad boy records biggie Smalls mace faith Evans 112 etc. So Paul Buford was right in the middle of that and then one of Puffy's first cousins Papa D. Daryl Taylor was a lieutenant in in BMF as well. So two people directly connected to Buffy and Bad boy records were in the Black Mafia family PJ Buford is out of prison now And the only two people from that original BMF bus that are still there are big Meach who has an update of 2028 and then the number three in charge Fleming ill Daniels who's doing a second-degree murder case in state prison out of Georgia and then last bit of news to report Some some sad news RIP to Slick Rick McFarland He was a JV member of Black Mafia family a group of kind of teenagers guys in the early 20s that were Gophers and protégés of the kind of the OG BMF Big Meats Terry Jbo Etc. Slick Rick McFarland Went down in the operation Motor City Mafia bust. He was a young guy at that time I think he was only about 22 23 as opposed to the OG guys that were in their mid 30s He did about ten years in prison came out in 16 and only a couple weeks after slick Rick McFarland came out of prison He was murdered in a December 2016 Drug world homicide that really had nothing to do with him. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time one of his close friends Robert Eddins who was a former NFL player played for the Buffalo Bills came from Detroit a high school ball at Detroit Crockett was an all Midwestern athletic conference defensive end at Ball State Then played with the Buffalo Bills after he had a cup of coffee in the NFL came back to Detroit and jumped into the drug game screwed over one of his connects didn't pay a $250,000 debt and His partner and his supply source from from down south came up to Detroit and murdered him Slick Rick was just visiting Robert Eddins at the time And got caught in the crossfire Michael Griffin and Mariano Garcia who are the Culprits who murdered slick Rick McFarland were recently sentenced just in the last couple weeks sentenced to prison Griffin's gonna do 30 years Garcia's gonna do 25 They both pleaded guilty to the case But they had no idea that slick Rick McFarland was a flenary Brothers lieutenant or at any ties to black mafia family. That's really one of two Murders of BMF lieutenants that have happened over the last You know five six years that had nothing to do with BMF affairs Which makes sense because BMF was not a very violent group But slick Rick McFarland and then one of the OG BMF Christopher pig triplet Was murdered and kind of an up from I understand a beef over a woman a couple years ago So RIP pig RIP slick Rick Slick Rick's murders are going to be going to prison for the foreseeable future PJ Buford is out of prison in a halfway house out in Long Beach, California and then Jbo Brown back in the headlines Under arrest again under indictment for the from the feds. We'll see what happens over these next couple months We'll always give you the the most Recent breaking news when it comes to black mafia family and all organized crime in America whether we're talking about African-Americans Italians Bikers Irish Jewish. 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