Title: 'Versace on my sneaks' and COVID-19 in jail: Gifford rap star YNW Melly's life behind bars
Headings: 'Versace on my sneaks' and COVID-19 in jail: Gifford rap star YNW Melly's life behind bars
'Versace on my sneaks' and COVID-19 in jail: Gifford rap star YNW Melly's life behind bars
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The jail only allows in-person visits with attorneys, law enforcement and religious ministers. Among Demons' nearly 170 visits in the past year, two included encounters with a prison minister, David Morgenstern, who in years past had ties to the Trafficante crime family known as the Tampa Mafia. Popularized in the 1997 film Donnie Brasco, starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino, the Trafficante crime family for decades was the main mob family operating in Florida and Cuba. Its founding members were expelled permanently after the Cuban Revolution of Fidel Castro, which cracked down on the island's casino-centric, criminal underbelly. Donnie Brasco: Extended Cut
Federal prosecutors charged Morgenstern and his twin brother Fred Morgenstern as members of the Trafficante Family's network, alleging they were largely involved in its money laundering and investment schemes, which funneled dozens of millions of dollars to banks overseas in the Bahamas and Europe. Both spent time in prison. "I pled guilty to money laundering," Morgenstern said. " I was involved in a scheme down here where illegal gambling proceeds were laundered through check cashing stores and laundered through South Carolina." He said he'd "paid (his) debt to society," and said without the guilty plea he would've likely spent 50 to 60 years behind bars.