Netflix - Cocaine Cowboys The Kings of Miami (2021) Part 5 Femme Fatale

Two childhood friends go from high school dropouts to the most powerful drug kingpins in Miami in this true story of a crime saga that spanned decades. In a Netflix docuseries, the story of 'The Kings of Miami' brings in a complex web of crime, corruption and wealth. Before Breaking Bad, Narcos and all the other thrillers, telenovelas and docuseries about traffickers in Netflix, there was Cocaine Cowboys. Director Billy Corben's lucid and sensational 2006 documentary about the Miami drug trade during the 80s became a cult classic and a foundational reference point for all the narco-content that came after. The wild, frenetic film was an underground sensation in hoods across America and made pop-culture icons out of cocaine traffickers like murderous drug queenpin Griselda Blanco. It also created an empire of its own. The film was followed by “Cocaine Cowboys 2 Hustlin' with the Godmother” in 2008, which focused on small-time coke dealer Charles Cosby as he broke into the Oakland, Calif., scene. Then there was “Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded” in 2014 containing new interviews and exclusive footage to the original documentary digging deeper into the war stories of law enforcement, lawyers, journalists, smugglers and assassins. Fifteen years after the release of his original film comes Corben's Cocaine Cowboys The Kings of Miami - a six-part saga on the South Florida traffickers indicted in one of the largest drug cases in U.S. history. Alleged to be the chief U.S. distributors for two of Colombia's biggest cartels, Cuban exiles Augusto “Willy” Falcon and Salvador “Sal” Magluta were accused of smuggling over 75 tons of cocaine into the U.S. from the Colombian cities of Medellin and Cali with their own planes and boats in the 1980s. The high school friends built a reputed 2 billion USD empire that made Willy and Sal, aka “Los Muchachos,” two of Miami's biggest celebrities. While law enforcement plotted their takedown, the world champion powerboat racers managed to skillfully outrun and outmaneuver prosecution for decades before the chase finally came to an end. Featuring colorful interviews with those closest to them, their defense team, and the Feds tasked with taking them down, the series paints a vivid portrait of the last of Miami's “Cocaine Cowboys”.

Part 5 Femme Fatale

Sal takes uncharacteristically desperate measures in the face of new federal charges, an unearthed paper trail and increasing pressure on a confidant. Sal has his day in court — again — Willy decides to go his own way. Facing a surefire prosecutorial case against them, Sal and Willy had their lawyers publish a veritable “hit list” of federal witnesses, many of whom were quickly assassinated. Moreover, despite having their narcotics assets frozen, they found a means of circumventing the law and using those illicit funds to pay for their expensive council. Understanding that wasn't enough to secure their exoneration, they then also bribed three jurors to swing the verdict in their favor—a scandal that compelled prosecutors to carry on a subsequent investigation to indict the jurors and use them against Sal and Willy.

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