He didnt advertise the fact, but Jimmy was helping to pay for the huge cost overrun on Lees new office. I decided to disappear over to the Hilton for a while. When Clark Hughes returned to Caesars about nine that evening, Lee had almost exhausted his credit limit. This didnt seem to disturb Wood any more than it had Guinn, who used to cackle, I can sentence them a lot faster than they can reverse them. Nor did Wood protest when they started calling him Maximum John. He couldnt have flushed it down the toilet faster than the way he gambled it and lost it, she said. A few hours later, the 38-year-old attorney, stunned and bewildered, found himself being transferred to the county jail, handcuffed to Georgie Taylor, who was a legend in local drug circles (he had made a million before he was eighteen) and who happened to be Jo Annies nephew. Joe Chagra also went to prison for his role in the assassination. Lee who was called F. His office and home telephone records as far back as 1970 had been subpoenaed, and so had his income tax records. Who do you think you are? The pit boss had heard the spiel many times and smiled patronizingly as he personally counted out the stacks of $500 chips. Stricklin hadnt yet met Lee Chagra, but he knew Chagras reputation. If they had, they would have seen the small, trembling figure of the prosecutor crouched in a fetal position below the dashboard, dazed, bleeding from the shards of splintered glass, shaky as a bowl of gelatinbut otherwise unharmed. Lee Chagras funeral was a microcosm of all the extremes in his life. On the night before he was murdered, Lee Chagra returned home to El Paso flushed with the euphoria a gambler feels when he believes his luck is changing. Early in the fall someone had broken into Mickey Espers law offices and attempted to haul off a safe. With Redd Fox. With the help of their principled mother before her tragic death, and haunted by the shadow of their father, Dirty Darlings is a portrait of courage as three women attempt to re-assemble the shattered pieces of their lives. Worse even then the chain reaction of disasters in 1977: the crash of one of his brother Jimmys drug smuggling planes in Colombia, Jimmys botched foray to rescue the pilot, Lees frantic scramble to rescue Jimmy, his running courtroom battle with federal prosecutor James Kerr and Judge John Wood. [9] The story surrounding the assassination of Judge Wood was profiled in an episode of City Confidential. Crimes against persons are treated with extreme gravity, but crimes against the economy are treated with a wink and a smile. I think Jerry Johnson told us whatever he thought we wanted to hear, DEA agent J.T. In fact, the only evidence that Lee expected things to improve was his new office complex. Gambling and women, said Lees old friend and fellow lawyer Clark Hughes. Lets go downstairs and give them one they can write home about. Clark said he would dress and meet Lee in the casino. He was up and down all his lifestruggling. Christa remembers the family being on food stamps after her dad went to jail. James Kerr was devoting almost all of his time to his organized-crime investigation. [31][32], In a deal with the federal government, Jimmy Chagra admitted to his role in the murder of Judge Wood and the attempted murder of Assistant United States Attorney James Kerr. Lees finances were in shambles, but he still had plenty of credit in Las Vegas. Yet he could risk the familys last penny on a roll of the dice. With the pointer fully retracted, Lee approached the jury box, smiling. Rumors persisted that while Stricklin was doing time at La Tuna, Lee arranged to destroy records that would have established Lees complicity in a number of smuggling operations. Composed of, and by, organized crime. As he said the words, Lee extended the pointer to its full length. The Indian brushed a strand of limp hair over his bald spot as he walked toward Lees car. I didnt trust Arabs. Do yourself a favor, one of the agents said. They were rivals in many ways.. It was apparent from the manner in which the furniture was rearranged and toppled about that the orgies were quite vigorous. And, of course, Jimmy Chagra. They went down there, they took pictures of everything And I was able to take that model and demolish their case. Kerr preferred playing Bach fugues in the dim light of the First Presbyterian Church and going to the symphony. I did not worry about a long-term jail sentence until Wood was killed, he said. He had several of the bracelets made for close friends and members of the family. The scam brought in more money than Lee had ever thought of making in his law practice. But let me add, he had a lot of enemies.. Ten smugglers, two airplanes, and four U-Haul trucks had been seized in the predawn trap. Before the case could be brought to trial, however, Jimmy eclipsed his brother in the headlines with a new and even more spectacular exploit. If Stricklin cooperated, they would work for his early release. They were making a career, or at least a crusade, of trying to prove that Lee Chagra, master criminal lawyer, was in fact master criminal. Here he is with Joe Namath. One weekend after the fiasco in Judge Woods courtroom, Lee Chagra did what he always did when he felt the world collapsing around himhe telephoned Clark Hughes and suggested a trip to Las Vegas. Jimmy Chagras first big score came in the summer of 75, when he orchestrated a shipment of more than 50,000 pounds of pot on a tramp steamer from Colombia to the Massachusetts coast, according to Dirty Dealing, a book about the Chagras published in 1984 by Austin author and journalist Gary Cartwright. On the trials 40th anniversary, Goodman and Chagras eldest daughter, Catherine, will look back at the case and what it meant for Goodman and the Chagra family.A book signing of Catherine Chagras Chagra: The King of Dope Drugs, Deceit and Dirty Darlings will follow this program.Member and Donor Exclusive: Enjoy a meet-and-greet with Oscar Goodman and Catherine Chagra at 6 p.m. prior to the program. Food, drinks, girlsanything one might fancy was there in a whisk. Joe was talking about resigning his partnership in the law firm. The silence was monumental. Catherine published a book about her life in 2015 titled Chagra: The King of Dope Drugs, Deceit and Dirty Darlings. She will be signing copies after the panel discussion. One time she wrote about sports. Yoseph let himself in the front entrance with the key that Lee had given him that morning. He called her into the bedroom. The nation was at war, not only in Viet Nam but in the streets, alleys, and barrios of America, where the menace of drugs was destroying the will to fight, or to work, or to do almost anything of traditional value. Drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra, accused of paying a hitman $250,000 to kill a federal judge, retained Las Vegas attorney Oscar Goodman to defend him. He helped develop Operation Intercept, a massive media event in which millions of U.S. citizens were stopped and searched at the border. In short order, Wood surpassed Guinns unenviable reputation as the most reversed judge in the district. In fact, the only indictments handed down by the racket-busters involved a Bandido who resisted arrest after FBI and DEA agents kicked down his door, a former manager of the Lamplighter Club, a city judge charged with fixing parking tickets, and bail bondsman Vic Apodaca, who was charged with income tax violations. Chagra, 39, a licensed professional gambler, was accused of paying Charles V. Harrelson $250,000 to kill the judge. He was living in a trailer camp in Mesa, Arizona. Sometimes Jimmy pretended he was Lee, signing his name Lee Chagra and repeating Lees stories as though they had happened to him. She had come to count on Leealthough she suspected that the money Lee gave her came from Jimmy anyway. Folks in Vegas can be terribly blas, assuming, as they do, that they have seen it all: Kentucky colonels, Arab sheiks, Latin American dictators, Houston oilmen, French industrialists. The bonds that he set in marijuana cases averaged $200,000. Her mom and sisters left witness protection and moved to Buda to be near Bastrop, where her father was being held. A short time later there was a knock, and Lee admitted two hookers to the room. Catherine Chagra and her two sisters, Cindy and Christa, were the darling daughters of Jimmy Chagra, the biggest pot dealer in the history of the U.S.A., and one of Until now. He was a fanatic about his family: he lavished gifts on his wife, his children, his mother, his sister. Marriage license #D875871, Marriage License Records, Las Vegas. The news that a task force of federal and state agents had seized a DC-4 with 17,000 pounds of top-grade Colombian marijuana in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on December 30 hit El Paso like a sonic boom. It was four years before most people recognized Jimmys achievement, but the operation was a landmark in marijuana trafficking. Goodman Kay McCulloch died, and with her death the raw material for the book went to the attic. And it was killing Lee. On May 29, 1979, the day that Jimmy was originally supposed to go on trial in Judge Woods court, John Wood was assassinated in the driveway outside his apartment. Not long after that, someone attempted to rob a high-stakes poker game at Jimmy Salomes house. To mark the 40th anniversary of the trial of drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra, who was accused of paying a hitman $250,000 to kill a federal judge John Wood, Oscar Offers may be subject to change without notice. A judge cant associate socially with a prosecutor the way Wood did with Kerr and still call em correctly, John Pinckney, the first U.S. attorney, had said. Now the government was trying to prove that Johnson had helped smuggle a pound of heroin out of Mexico. Stricklin was an enterprising and likable young man who had grown up in one of El Pasos better neighborhoods. Lee had been accused of a lot of things, but this was the first time anyone had ever accused him of representing himself and not his client. Some people though Lee Chagra didnt know how to quit, but that wasnt quite true. Kerr had been involved with pursuing Chagra for his drug dealings. While federal agents snapped photographs from the parking lot across the street, hundreds of mourners jammed St. Patricks. He had an affinity for cards and dice, for dope dealers and shady politicians, for cripples and nightclub singers, for dabblers in the black market and exponents of the quick buck. He was a mamas boy, always pouting and complaining. Heres What We Want at the Park. He was arrested without incident in front of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, his second home, where, according to Catherine, hed gone to seek facial reconstructive surgery. But the real bite of the law, the element that made it harsher than any other federal law on the booksharsher even than penalties for rape, murder, or kidnappingwas its inordinate range of sentences. I knew he was dying, Catherine Chagra said. Tom Foster writes about business, innovation, and creative people. The months of suspicion and hostile publicity almost wrecked Lees law career. It was fitting in a way that Lee should end up championing the drug dealers rights; his brother Jimmy was destined to join their ranks. There were at least twenty lawyers for the defense, but apparently the entire burden of prosecution fell on poor Kilcrease. Sib Abraham and some other old friends and members of the family were there. He just picked up the money and tossed it in a drawer. The case remains unsolved. I feel that it has all been terribly twisted. He said he would meet her at home in a couple of hours. To combat what he perceived as the inroads of organized crime, Boyd needed someone tough and relentless to take over the El Paso docket as federal prosecutor. Catherine is at work on a book called Dirty Darlings: A Story of Big Shots, Big Hair, Free Falling and a Texas-Sized Return to Grace. She has the tapes and the transcripts and is determined to get her version of the family story told. And when it came to squandering the profits, Lee was at the head of the line. Maybe it will get better, Vivian said. Minimum sentence was ten years, maximum was life. Chagra used one of his trademarks, a solid-gold retractable pointer, to demonstrate his case. Goodman punched holes in the governments case, and the jury acquitted Chagra. The lawyer mentioned that he sometimes looked down at the office complex that Lee was remodeling and experienced pangs of envy. The tragedy was that it was all unnecessary: before the Fifth Circuit had a chance to rule on the question of jeopardy, Jamie Boyd decided to drop the continuing criminal enterprise charges against Jack Stricklin. Chagra and Wood were on a collision course that was bound to end in catastrophe. As it turned out, he was right.. It was obvious that the prosecution and the DEA had problems coordinating their investigation. Former mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman is credited with the revitalization of downtown Las Vegas including The Smith Center for the Performing Arts and our very own The Mob Museum. Im the eagle! But Sandy noticed there were tears in his eyes. Those tapes, according to Catherine, were doctored and judged inadmissible.). In the court of John Wood, Chagra realized, that could be some distance. It took almost a year for all the money to work its way back to Jimmy and his partners. shaggy shag,' and he would gamble up to a million dollars," said Whats it all for? he said out loud, and Vivian could see the tears in his eyes and hear the catch in his voice. It wasnt just in hard-drug cases; Wood appeared to make no distinctions. Two of Chagras daughters, Christa and Catherine, now live in Smithville. She had bought the Lincoln limo because she wanted to give her husband something crazy after all these years.. [7] According to George Knapp writing for Las Vegas CityLife, he was "the undisputed marijuana kingpin of the Western world. Lee had never discussed with any of the staff the purpose of the apartment at the rear of the complex, but they knew he was having a regular evening affair with a stripper from the Lamplighter Club. Lee turned the channel selector to the camera over the alley entrance. When things were going poorly for himand they usually werehe could be amazingly rattlebrained and cruel. Over the next eight years Wood handed out the maximum sentence in almost every case. What investigation against him? He referred to all of his male friends as brother, and yet there was a time when he couldnt keep his hands off his real brothers wives and girlfriends. Though neither knew it, this was the last time the two old friends would ever go to Vegas together. I want to talk to you. Vivian was startled to see how much Jimmy looked like Lee, how he had grown out his moustache, how his hair was full and shaggy and touched now with streaks of gray. The media reported that the charges were dropped for lack of a speedy trial. Although Wood had devoted his career to civil law, there was no more ardent law-and-order advocate anywhere. Fold this five ways and stick it where the elves dont play, he said. In broken white letters, like shards of milk glass on velvet, it said FREEDOM. All rights reserved. By setting up the corporation for Jimmy, Lee had, for the first time, made himself vulnerable. Then suddenly the money was gone. Lee read the card and laughed. Lee had wanted to be a lawyer, and so, after some convincing, had the youngest of the boys, Joe. In fact, it was a condition of him taking the case. Coming as it did in the midst of his misery, Lees brilliant defense of the Ardmore bunch had to be his most satisfying victory. Everyone had assumed theyd made loveLee made a point of keeping her in his office long enough, then he flushed the toilet and gave her the money. Lee had already made a name for himself before he began taking drug defendants, but the string of cases that would make him one of El Pasos most famousor infamousfigures began in the early seventies when U.S. customs agents busted a smuggler from Tennessee named Tom Pitts and two other men who were attempting to bring six hundred pounds of marijuana across the Rio Grande. He may or may not have locked it. It was four years before we lost a case.. David Long? Lee said. He could be shamelessly sentimental and gentle as a whisper, and yet there was a macho fury inside that could make him turn on those closest to him. They didnt count all the bundles of cash in the tennis bag, but there was more money than either of them had ever seen in one place, something like $450,000. United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, "TRIAL ON JUDGE'S DEATH HEARS ONE JAILED BROTHER DEFAME THE OTHER (Published 1982)", "Jamiel A. 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He had known about Lees cocaine habit, but since Clark had been appointed a judge, Lee hadnt flaunted it. They say there was nothing Jimmy really wanted to be, but that wasnt entirely true. On five minutes notice, Caesars would dispatch a Learjet to fetch one or both of the Chagras. Almost every day Jimmy telephoned Lee from his new home in Las Vegas. It was becoming an obsession. He called himself a pacifist, and yet he was comfortable around violence. The family posted a $25,000 reward and announced that the freedom banner would hang until the killers were caught and the case was closed. [17][10], Chagra's downfall began in February 1979 when he was arrested on trafficking charges. Woods blunder was the last straw. He died from injuries resulting from an automobile accident that occurred on December 6, 1996. Lee despised Kerr, and Kerr had every reason to despise Lee. The Photo the Dallas Cowboys Never Wanted the Public to See, Welcome to Palo Pinto, Texass Next State Park, The Top 50 Texas BBQ Joints: 2021 Edition, Please Do Not Touch the Toxic Toupee, a.k.a. Id lay next to him and stroke his arm and hed say, Baby, I think I might go to hell. He didnt apologize for anything; he just said, I think Im going to hell. I said, You just have to ask God to forgive you, Daddy. I dont think he felt bad about the crimes. Each time he caught a narc in a lie, Lee made eye contact with various jurors, the corners of his mouth twitching with mirth as though he expected tiny okra plants to sprout from the witnesss nose at any moment. Loaves of Syrian bread were baking in the kitchen. Stricklin started peddling lids when they were still lidsan ounce of grass in a Prince Albert tin. When Lee pinned them down on the exact location from which they had watched the scene, several jurors snickered: not only was the position almost a mile from the field but a massive hill blocked the view. Lee laughed with pride. Dirty Darlings. However, his sister Patsy stated that he was not in the witness protection program at the time of his death. First, he made at least a dozen telephone calls. How come when Im winning you let me do anything I goddam please, but when I lose you wont let me out of the trap? he shouted in a voice that could be heard in the coffee shop on the opposite side of the casino. Drugs are currently in fashion, but over the years whiskey, cigarettes, perfume, Swiss watches, silver, kitchenware, and of course, laborers have been staples in the trade. A major law firm that always invited the top six UT law graduates to a spring gala invited only five in 1962. Pitts fancied himself a big-timer and concluded that Chagra must be pretty big himself if he was demanding thirty grand. For some unexplained reason, the three assailants (apparently there was a third behind the wheel) raced from the scene without bothering to walk five or six feet and make sure that Kerr was dead. 196 Something about a will, about some large estate in California? Patsy ran out the back entrance and toward the cathedral. Drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra, accused of paying a hitman $250,000 to kill a federal judge, retained Las Vegas attorney Oscar Goodman to defend him. Or for Lee Chagra. Prosecutors suspected Jimmy Chagra, and the FBI began meticulously putting its case together. He wanted everything his brother had, but he just didnt want to work for it. The idea originated with a friend of his, a highly decorated former Army helicopter pilot who was rumored to have Mafia connections, and with Jack Stricklin, who provided most of the technical expertise. The feds reasoned that Lee was the mastermind because Lee was so smart, and they became so preoccupied with this scenario that they failed to see the obvious irony: Lee was too smart to play that role. In his time, Lee had invested in a racehorse that ended up as dog meat, a pro golfer who never made the cut, a combination lock that served to secure nothing more than a long, bitter lawsuit, and a caper to corner the Colombian coffee bean market. Jamiel Chagra, known as Jimmy, was born in El Paso, Texas on December 7, 1944. Jimmy was born the middle son of a Lebanese rug merchant family. His mother was named Josephine, and his father Abdou Chagra. He had two brothers, Lee and Joseph, who were both attorneys involved with the legal defense of drug smugglers. Hughes, who assisted in the defense, thought that Lee won in his opening remarks to the jury. His grandfather had been an ironfisted sheriff of Bexar County when lawmen still fought off Apaches. 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