He Says Government Glorifies Drug Dealing
April 24, 1997|By Matt O'Connor, Tribune Staff Writer.
Wallace "Gator" Bradley, longtime confidant to Gangster Disciple leader Larry Hoover, charged Wednesday that the government set out in its case against Hoover to glorify him as a multimillionaire in order to entice young black people into a life of drug-dealing.
Bradley first leveled the accusation in an article in the Chicago Defender, prompting Assistant U.S. Atty. Ronald Safer to press him for an explanation at the end of a combative cross-examination.
"I believe Mr. Safer is trying to give the impression that an individual can go to the penitentiary for 23 years and become a multimillionaire," Bradley told jurors at Hoover's trial on drug conspiracy charges.
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