26 foot Seahawk closed deck race boat hull

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26 seahawk race boat offshore legend - $2500 (miami fl)
77112

Needs work and motors. Great lines and great
Rough water boat built for Sal Magluta and Willy Falcon
A true Miami legend great project boat will run 85 with 2 300
Call 305 492 2976
•Location: miami fl
•do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers


Posting ID: 4220444787

http://miami.craigslist.org/mdc/boa/4220444787.html

[Offshore Ginger]

Just curious ........................who the hell is serious news ......name ........

[Ratickle]

Different people, no single one.

[Ratickle]

I wonder what year the boat would be?

[Ratickle]

Monday, June 16, 2003

Story last updated at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, June 16, 2003
Miami drug kingpin pleads guilty, to get 20-year sentence


By CATHERINE WILSON
Associated Press Writer



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MIAMI - A reputed drug kingpin from Miami's era of cocaine cowboys pleaded guilty Monday to money laundering, ending a 14-year saga of investigations into fast-boat cocaine smuggling, witness hits, jury bribery and drug profits stashed as cash.

Willy Falcon agreed to serve the maximum 20-year prison term for the money laundering conspiracy charge and will forfeit $1 million restitution. Jury and witness tampering charges will be dropped at sentencing in July.

Falcon and partner Sal Magluta, who lost at trial and is serving a life sentence, reputedly made a $2 billion profit on 78 tons of smuggled cocaine while turning Miami into the drug capital of the world in the 1980s.

Falcon, 47, has completed a firearms sentence and was being held without bail for trial July 14. He has about 13 1/2 years left on the sentence he will get in July because of years spent awaiting trial. The judge concluded he likely would have faced up to 25 years if convicted of two key charges at trial.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz accepted the plea after initially expressing strong reservations about both the sentence and the forfeiture, saying they seemed too short and too low.

"Is there a clear message that when you do the crime, you do the time?" she asked. Near the end of the three-hour hearing, she said, "The court probably does not grasp this plea with great enthusiasm but is accepting it with a very rational analysis."

Outside court, lead prosecutor Michael "Pat" Sullivan said, "Falcon and Magluta were not allowed to walk away."

The childhood friends were known in Colombian drug circles simply as "The Boys," the Miami end of a burgeoning drug pipeline that helped popularize cocaine and transform it into a high-volume business from coast to coast.

The two Miami high school dropouts who gained fame as powerboat racers _one installment of the "Miami Vice" television series featured smugglers using offshore boat racing as a cover - were acquitted of federal drug charges in 1996. It turned that they had the help of two bribed jurors: the foreman, who was sent to prison, and a mystery woman who has never been prosecuted.

Prosecutors said Magluta engineered the jury tampering, not Falcon.

"We are convinced he was well aware of it, but he wasn't the one driving it," Sullivan said.

"I really see a runaway train with Mr. Magluta as the conductor and Mr. Falcon way back," defense attorney Jeffrey Weiner said.

Falcon waved to his parents and three children leaving court. His relatives had no comment.

The drug arrests of Falcon and Magluta in 1991 followed years of cat-and-mouse encounters with the law. They have spent much of their imprisonment in solitary confinement. For Falcon, that included time spent shackled hand and foot to a bed.

After skipping out on a 14-month sentence for a 1979 state drug conviction, authorities said the partners began smuggling cocaine by air to the Florida Keys and a Hendry County ranch starting in 1980.

Falcon told the judge his last legitimate job was in 1980 working for his father-in-law's perfume liquidation company.

Speedboats started carrying cocaine from the Bahamas to Florida in the early 1980s. A California smuggling arm based at a Marina del Rey luxury condo was launched around the same time, and the pair disappeared when they were due at a Los Angeles court hearing in 1987.

Magluta, 48, was indicted in 1999 as the more ruthless of the two, accused of ordering hits on three witnesses, including a lawyer shot dead in his office. He was cleared of those charges at his trial last August, but ended up with a life sentence for bribing jurors and laundering drug money. More than $6 million in stashed cash has been unearthed in an attic and a back yard.

Falcon has completed a 10-year sentence for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm at the time of his arrest. His wife was killed while walking out of a beauty salon in 1992 in an attack blamed on street thugs.

Falcon and Magluta were blamed for the downfall of a U.S. attorney, who reportedly drowned his sorrows over the 1996 courtroom loss of the high-profile drug case at an adult nightclub before the jury bribery scheme came to light.

Prosecutors responded with a sweeping attack on anyone associated with Falcon, Magluta and their drug organization and won more than three dozen convictions.

Prosecutors are still pursuing charges against Falcon's fugitive brother and two Colombians targeted with extradition. Magluta's father and son face sentencing in September on related charges.

As a Cuban citizen, Falcon has no guarantee he will go free when he completes his sentence. He may be detained by immigration authorities, or he could face deportation if the United States and Cuba change their policies.

"We will do whatever it takes, no matter how long it takes, to protect our system of justice," said U.S. Attorney Marcos Jimenez. "Willy Falcon is finally being brought to justice, just like Sal Magluta was brought to justice."


http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/061603/D7RN3PQO0.html

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http://www.biography.com/tv/gangsters-americas-most-evil/episodes/los-muchachos-augusto-falcon-and-salvador-magluta

[Ratickle]

I wonder if the trailer is included?

[Ratickle]

Some of what I've dug up:

The 26' Seahawk is from an old Lionmar mold (Lionel Martinez/ Hialeah), still digging on this.
Seahawk bought the molds and re-marketed the boats in the early 80's.