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Higdon's book reports that assistant US Attorney Cleve Gambill said at the June 1989 press conference: "The organization is a highly motivated, well financed group of marijuana growers from Kentucky who are responsible for growing this vast amount of marijuana [and who] call themselves the Cornbread Mafia.".
John Robert “Johnny” Boone, who once ran a multi-state marijuana-growing operation known as the Cornbread Mafia, has died at age 80. ... In the 1989 article, authorities described farms bought ...
But while secrets around the Cornbread Mafia will forever be rooted in Marion County, there is now one undeniable fact about its most high-profile resident. ... The Courier Journal wrote in 1989 ...
John Robert “Johnny” Boone, 80. Boone, who once ran a multi-state marijuana-growing operation known as the Cornbread Mafia, died June 14 at Village of Lebanon. He was known to some as the ...
In the 1980s, Boone was a leader in the Cornbread Mafia, a drug organization in Kentucky dubbed the "largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history". [3] During his time in the organization, he helped set up marijuana farms in his home state of Kentucky as well as surrounding states in the Midwest including Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas.
Cornbread Mafia seizure: Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (investigator) 10 Midwest states, based in Kentucky: 1989: 182 tons (364,000 pounds) valued at $350 million: Over 70 individuals indicted operating 29 farms, [5] [6] [7] called by federal prosecutors the "largest domestic marijuana producing organization in the nation." [8 ...
Opinion: Cornbread Mafia leader Johnny Boone grew lots of pot and was convicted three times. But he died a beloved icon in Central Kentucky. Gerth: How Johnny Boone went from convicted drug ...
In the wake of the 1989 arrest of the Cornbread Mafia by the Western Kentucky OCDETF, [6] the task force was created in July 1990 by executive order from then Kentucky Governor Wallace Wilkinson. [7] with the backing of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. [8]