The Webb Story and the Efforts to Rebut It Webb focused on three figures. One was "Freeway Ricky" Ross, a black dealer who introduced L.A. and other cities to crack. A second was Daniel Bland๓n, a Nicaraguan who not only supplied Ross (and others) with his cocaine, but developed the concept of creating a mass market for crack. The third was Norwin Meneses, the head of the "Frogman" connection importing cocaine for Bland๓n. Webb charged that both Meneses and Bland๓n met regularly with Contra leaders, and by supplying them with drug earnings gained protection from law enforcement. (Bland๓n, by turning in Ross, ended up on the DEA payroll; Ross, the black, ended up with a life sentence. Meneses was eventually convicted for trafficking, but in Nicaragua, never in the United States.) These allegations ....

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