He got charged with the King Pin Statue because the value of drugs sold was over $1B. King Pin conviction is minimum 25 to life
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He wasn't ina traditional sense though, he just offered a marketplace without having any control of the tentacles of whatever people were doing.
Probably upset the CIA and their cocaine sales but Tom Cruise amiright?
He got a cut from every sale. Sounds like a drug dealer to the prosecutor.