Frank Lucas
publication date: Thursday, February 7, 2008 (part of Round XXXIII)
category: Crime
clue: If you bought heroin in New York around 1970, you bought it from this gangster.
explanation: Hughes was a major drug trafficker and the subject of the film American Gangster. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Justin Woods, Denise Sawicki, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, Mike Rothstein, Steve Dunn, Amy Austin, Aaron Shurtleff, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Tony Peters, Sarah Kyle, Walter Chesser, Shawn Brandt, Greg Bair, Jim Kraus, Allison Bair, Sam Boyarsky, Jesse Vengrove, and Eric Wallhagen
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