FRANK LUCAS OF AMERICAN GANGSTER GETS THE LAST LAUGH
Many of us were entertained by the movie American Gangster this weekend, but did you realize that the movie is stuffing the wallet of the druglord Frank Lucas, who was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie? The Harlem heroin dealer was convicted before there was a law banning criminals from profiting from their crimes. So far Lucas has pocketed at last $800,000 from the movie and a sequal is being discussed. Ironically the film glamorizes Lucas as a family oriented brilliant businessman with a “code of honor” surrounded by “dirty” cops. In actuality, Lucas was far from an honorable man – he manipulated his relatives into working for him, callously put out a contract on his own brother, couldn’t read and could barely count. Even Lucas admits “only 20 % of the film is true.”