“We did it, all right…ha, ha, ha… Who the hell is gonna look in a dead soldier’s coffin? Ha ha ha. . . .We had him make up 28 copies of the government coffins . . . except we fixed them up with false bottoms, big enough to load up with six, maybe eight kilos . . . It had to be snug. You couldn’t have shit sliding around. Ike was very smart, because he made sure we used heavy guys’ coffins. He didn’t put them in no skinny guy’s . . .” Frank Lucas, 2000.

Now, the man played by Denzel Washington in the blockbuster “American Gangster” speaks with Jacky Jasper about his past, his present and his future.

“I was like on top of the world,” says Lucas. “I wanted to be rich.”

And that’s exactly what he became – rich. But, (more…)