The bare bones of a nationwide drug-trafficking organization, including the business partner of a Hollywood filmmaker with ties to City Hall (“The Company You Keep,” Mobtown Beat, Sept. 10), have been described by federal prosecutors in a series of hearings over the past two weeks. The case, which started with three defendants, now has...
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Five More Indicted in Drug Conspiracy of Hollywood in a Bottle Co-Founder
The Hollywood Connection: Federal Drug Indictment Snares City Hall Filmmaker’s Business Partner
On Aug. 28 a federal grand jury in Maryland indicted three men on drug-trafficking charges, including a business partner of Los Angeles-based filmmaker Lavern Whitt, producer of a documentary about the four women who hold the highest elected offices in Baltimore City. Whitt is also the founder of Hollywood in a Bottle, an educational...
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Tillman Properties Raided by Feds
Milton Tillman Jr. in a 2006 booking photo Court documents relating to the recent federal raids of properties associated with politically wired Baltimore bailbondsman Milton Tillman Jr., and his son, Milton Tillman III, became available today. Seven affidavits supporting the search warrants, posted here, were sworn out on Aug. 14 by U.S. Internal Revenue...
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Phillip Robinson Winkfield came up for arraignment on drugs and weapons charges in Baltimore City Circuit Court on June 30, when he met his adversary: the chief of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office narcotics division, Antonio Gioia. Such high-level handling of Winkfield’s case by the city’s top drug prosecutor highlights not so much...
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