Ron Chepesiuk
Ron Chepesiuk, a Rock Hill, S.C., freelance journalist, has been reporting on
international drug trafficking since 1987. He is the author of Hard
Target; The U.S.'s War on International Drug Trafficking, 1992-1997 (McFarland,
1998) and
The War on Drugs: An International Encyclopedia, ABC--CLIO,
1999), which contains a forward by former Colombian President (1998-2002),
Andres Pastrana Arango. He is the author of 16 other books and more than 2,700
articles that have appeared in such publications as USA Today, The
National Review, New York Times Syndicate and Woman's World. In
2003, Chepesiuk was a Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at Chittagong
University in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
New:
The Raid in Teaneck, the prologue from
Ron Chepesiuk
and Anthony Gonzalez's upcoming book, Superfly: The True Untold Story
of Frank Lucas, American Gangster. (A major movie about Lucas entitled American Gangster and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe will be
in theaters beginning Nov. 2, 2007.) The book investigates Lucas's life and
criminal career and the claims to fame the movie makes about him. This includes Lucas's relationship with legendary
Harlem gangster Bumpy Johnson, his connection to La Cosa Nostra, the money he
made in the drug trade and the development of the Asian drug pipeline. Lucas's
life as a government informant is also examined. Beginning Oct. 25, 2007,
Superfly can be purchased from the web site
franklucasamericangangster.com. A documentary is also available.
New:
The Chicago Outfit
Makes Its Move: An excerpt from the upcoming book Black Gangsters of
Chicago
(9/07/07).
This chapter chronicles how The Outfit, Chicago's
powerful white mafia, moved to take over the lucrative policy racket in the
Windy City's so-called Black Belt in the 1940s.
The Investigation Begins.
(6/20/07)
An excerpt
from Ron Chepesiuk's Drug Lords: the Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel,
chronicling how the longest running and most important investigation in DEA
history began. Originally published in 2005 in paperback by Milo Books, the
book has been expanded and updated to include information about the
successful completion of the Cali Cartel takedown. It will be available for
purchase this July (2007). For background see Crime Magazine's
The Fall of
the Cali Cartel by Ron Chepesiuk.
Black Caesar
(2/20/07).
An excerpt from Chepesiuk's new book Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York
City's Most Famous Neighborhood, depicting the rise of drug king Frank
Matthews and his jumping bail in 1973.
The Fall of the Cali Cartel(10/21/2006).
The
sentencing of Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela brought down the world's
most successful drug cartel, but did little if anything to halt the flow of
drugs to the United States.
The Labs That Made It Snow, is the prologue to the upcoming book
The Bullet or the
Bribe: Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel by Ron Chepesiuk, the story
of the rise of the powerful Cali Cartel and the long and often frustrating
campaign that U.S. and international law enforcement waged to take it down. The
book details the cartel's rise to international prominence and the lifestyles of
its godfathers, its efforts to buy Colombia, its death struggle with legendary
Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, its brilliant strategy to portray
itself as the kinder, gentler drug cartel from Colombia, and the mistakes that
ultimately led to the crumbling of its well-oiled organization. The book will be
published by Praeger, a member of the Greenwood Publishing Group,
in the fall of 2003.
Click here
for the Greenwood Publishing Group's page on
The Bullet or the Bribe:
Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel by Ron Chepesiuk.
