Sounds like he was a one man Air America back in the day........LOL
Reminds me of a rich kid in his late teens I knew back in the late 60's here in Denver. His rich parents bought him pilot lessons when he was 16.
By the time he was 19 he had the free use of a twin engine prop plane, used occasionally by his employer, with full instrumentation, and ILS capability. He would go down to somewhere deep in Mexico, load up with grass, and fly it up to a small dirt airstrip on the Mexican side of the border and drop it off, then fly back to Denver with an empty plane. He was making a ton of money.......
Then, somehow, one day, he accidentally flew the plane into a dirt airstrip on the U.S. side of the border. WHAM.......he was caught by U.S. treasury department?, easily found guilty of drug smuggling, and put into prison. His very wealthy parents got the best legal representation money could buy, who somehow "convinced" a different federal appellate judge to grant an appeal, and to give him a years probation......At 18, it was my first exposure to the "two class legal system" here in the U.S.
A little later in my life, I watched Michael Wise, CEO of Silverado Savings and Loan here in Denver. He scammed the banking system and was able to walk away, scott free, and leave the U.S. Taxpayers with a two BILLION dollar bailout of Silverado. He was prudent to put Neal Bush on his board of directors. It was a slam dunk case for the prosecutors, with the a ton of evidence, enough to send him to Leavenworth for decades..... His lawyers succeeded in "somehow" bringing in a judge from Texas for the trial. And, on the morning of the first day of the trial, the judge threw the case out, on a tiny, fictional technicality. For "some" reason the prosecution didn't re-try the case against him. He and all his rich cronies who had also made fortunes from the criminally corrupt CEO of Silverado Savings, cried all the way to another bank.......
A few years later, he set up shop in Aspen, and designed another corrupt scam to attract many wealthy investors in Aspen and bilk millions out of them. He was arrested, and sent to Leavenworth immediately. The moral I learned once again was screwing the common people, the taxpayers, was okay and rewarded handsomely, but screw the wealthy....watch out.....LOLOLOLOL.
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