Wallace Rice (gangster)

Wallace Rice (gangster)

Wallace Rice is a gangster that was part of the 1970s heroin trade in Harlem, New York. Rice was one of the seven members of, The Council that included infamous, Mr Untouchable Leroy "Nicky" Barnes as its leader.cite web |date=1984-10-15|url = http://www.altlaw.org/v1/cases/554294|title = UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Kenneth THOMAS, Guy Thomas Fisher, Ishmael Muhammed, Frank Alphonse James, Thomas Forman, Wallace Rice, James Wheelings, Elmer Thomas Morris, Jr., Defendants-Appellants. — 757 F.2d 1359 |format = HTML |publisher = altlaw| accessdate = 2008-03-15 | last= |quote=According to the proof at trial, all the defendants and several co-conspirators (including Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, James Fisher and Joseph Hayden) were associated in a huge narcotics ring run by a governing body called the "Council." In existence for 12 years--from 1972 to 1983--the Council purchased bulk quantities of pure heroin. Its members were Barnes, Hayden, James, Guy Fisher, Rice, Muhammed and Forman. ]

The Council

The Council included seven people:

*Leroy "Nicky" Barnes
*Joseph "Jazz" Hayden
*Wallace Rice
*Thomas "Gaps" Foreman
*Ishmael Muhammed
*Frank James
*Guy Fisher

Downfall

Wallace Rice was arrested and charged with crimes as a result of testimony from Leroy Barnes. According to Leroy Barnes, while in prison, he discovered that his assets were not being taken care of, The Council stopped paying his attorneys' fees, and one of his fellow council members, Guy Fisher, was having an affair with his mistress/girfriend."Telling Tales;Mad, mad Leroy Barnes," TIME Magazine, January 30, 1984, p.16] cite web |date=March 15, 1999|url = http://www.ganglandnews.com/column118.htm|title = Barnes Free At Last|format = HTML |publisher = ganglandnews| accessdate = 2008-03-12 | last=Jerry Capeci |quote=] The Council had a rule that no council member would sleep with another council member's wife. In response, Barnes became an informant. He forwarded a list of 109 names, five of whom were council members, along with his wife's name, implicating them all in illegal activities related to the heroin trade. Barnes helped to indict 44 other traffickers, 16 of whom were ultimately convicted. In this testimony, he implicated himself in eight murders.

External links

*imdb title|id=1086340|title=Mr. Untouchable (2007) film about The Council

References


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