The Chepe Chasers were in the process of tracing Santacruz’s drug profits to secret holdings in Panama, Luxembourg and Monaco. He said he decorated the office of his 45-cents-an-hour job with discarded materials – including a vintage map to mark his world travels with push pins – but it was too nice, and a jealous prison official made him tear it all down. Now it was under siege by a half dozen heavily armed drug agents backed up by roughly 30 more law enforcement officials whose vests showed off an alphabet soup of government force: DEA, IRS, SFPD. Robinson listened to Clarke’s first-hand account of the designers’ lavish San Francisco mansion and salivated at the idea of raiding it. He hastily bought a copy of the issue and brought it out once he and Frank were alone. He flew home with a $25,000 retainer check signed by José Santacruz and described the adventure in his personal diary. Call it "Scarface" meets "The Birdcage," but it was serious business for authorities probing the limits of relatively new money laundering statutes. Upon hearing the verdict, Frank considered landmarks to throw himself off of and other methods of ending his misery. But to Alexander and Frank, it was a test of their love. “It’s about the freedom.". Fall off either direction, he explained, “and you’re going to get it.”. But Robinson still believes the interior designers got one over on the American government. “We wanted a clear record that the cartel operated in New York, operated at the scale we knew it operated – which was absolutely massive – and that there were persons in the U.S. who could be held accountable for cooperating with them,” Lerner said. Patricia Dempsey, an acquaintance of Alexander’s from Wisconsin, served as their housekeeper and office manager in exchange for room, board and a small salary. “He was still in love with Blarek.”. As project manager, Frank spent more time with Santacruz himself. The mustaches remain, though they've lost much of their color. Bloody Chapter Ends. On the other, the Ross Dress for Less crew, cops and government lawyers in off-the-rack suits. Alexander, now 78, and Frank, 71, have landed on an off-brand version of their pre-raid existence. “Radio Shack was one of their favorite places,” Robinson said. In fact, there had been $50,000 in the safety deposit box, and more than $600,000 in another one. In his diary, Frank confessed that collecting all that cash had him frazzled. “It is torture.”. Rojas had grown close to the designers during their work for Santacruz, even asking Alexander to father her child, according to court testimony. Alexander was allowed to keep an empty lot in The Hamptons in New York he purchased before he met Santacruz, valued at $305,186. Alexander and Frank in the mid-1980s had moved to a waterfront home in Tiburon, California, flying first class while their housekeeper Patricia drove across the country with their terrier and $225,000 from a safety deposit box. The Castaño brothers expected a stronger contribution to their cause from Chepe, and violently beat him before shooting him to death. On a Sunday afternoon in 1979, Alexander was bouncing along a country road outside the city of Cali in Colombia when he spotted a perfect specimen of contemporary architecture. “We were filling up the airplane almost,” that freight forwarder, Maria Elena Rojas, later testified. Even his deep-tissue masseuse weighed in, telling him that perhaps Amparo had become his muse. Lerner planned an ambitious indictment in which the designers would be charged under the RICO Act, a mob statute holding individuals culpable for the conspiracy of their gang as a whole. According to Frank, Robinson accused him of hiding the missing millions in their topiary and threatened to use a helicopter to lift up their statues in order to find the cash. In exchange for professional glory and economic freedom to create, they chose to live by the credo of the Cali drug cartel.”.

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