 All right, welcome into the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host, Scott Bernstein, along with my co-host, partner of crime, the doctor, Jimmy Guzolato. And we're gonna do a real quick hitter edition right now, three to five minutes on Richard Wipeway-Rick-Warshie, another subject that I've spent quite a bit of time researching, reporting on, writing about. I was involved in the Hollywood film, Wipeway-Rick, back in 2018 with Matthew McConaughey. I was also involved in the documentary on Wipeway-Rick called, White Boy, that's on Netflix right now. And news came out related to his $100 million lawsuit that he filed against the city of Detroit, Detroit police department, FBI and US attorney's office for the southeastern Michigan district, seeking damages from his two years undercover as a teenager for a federal drug task force back in the 80s, working some of Detroit's most notorious African-American drug gangs. He was recruited out of eighth grade and paid to go be a drug mole. Did 33 years in prison and now was looking to get some type of restitution or reparations. And because of the statute of limitations, federal judge this week tossed the case out in the court system for about two years. Jimmy, any thoughts? Well, the statute of limitations, I mean, I'm not a lawyer obviously, but isn't that unfair considering he was in prison? Like he wasn't really able to muster this kind of- Yeah, the scroll, you know, money. Right. Yeah, to me, it was kind of a Hail Mary from the jump. I think there was some immunity issues in terms of suing the government. I think there would be an issue with the fact that he got paid. He was paid, not just paid, but paid handsomely. He made I think over $40,000 in two years back at a time when a DPD officer was only making 15K a year. He made more than an average Detroit police department officer as a 14 and 15 year old working undercover for them. Now there are tons of moral and ethical implications there about why this would be allowed, but it was. It seems like there should be some accountability. Yes. But according to the judge this week, he had until 2006 to bring this case and he brought it in 2021 to your point. I don't think he had the resources back in 2006 to bring a case. Right. So that definitely cuts against him. For people that might not know, you know, white boy Rick was a phenomenon in Detroit in the late 80s, a teenager, a white teenager in an all black Detroit underworld wearing mint coats and gold chains and running around with the mayor's niece was the right hand man to a very infamous drug lord, Johnny Curry, and was a guy that was sitting front court all the piston games, VIP at all the clubs, Miami Vice 21 Jump Street did shows inspired by him and he was only 16, 17 years old, you know, the media. Media love that. He went viral before anybody knew what it meant to go viral. Yeah, it was a big deal. And then he got locked up in 1988 based on just a traffic stop. He had broken off his relationship with the government a couple of months before that wasn't on the payroll anymore, but he knew too much. And it got locked up in 1988 as an 18 year old didn't get out until he was in his fifties. But he's not going to be seen any money right now that he was seeking a hundred million dollars and it's been thrown out. He's got his own weed business that I think is doing pretty well a legal cannabis called the eighth. Does he have any other legal recourse after this? After it's tossed out? I don't believe so. Any other way like he can? I think this is the end of the line in terms of seeking that type of accountability. Because I understand the argument that he was compensated but I'd back to your point about ethically and maybe this doesn't matter legally but certainly ethically he was a teenager. Like, I mean, it seems to me like he shouldn't be held to the same standards of accountability. There's a lot to unpack. We'll try to maybe do a full episode on this case at some point. We have an audio episode on it by the way people can listen to. So, we just wanted to give you that information. White boy Rick, a hundred million dollar lawsuit, a hundred million dollar lawsuit tossed out of court this week won't be able to get damages for his 33 years in prison after working for the government right out of eighth grade. And, you know, it's unfortunate but that's just the way it happens. And Jimmy, we'll see you on another long form episode soon. For Jimmy Bucciolato and Benny behind the glass I'm Scott Bernstein, OGPod out.