Thread by @blmohr

“The man at the center of a drug ring investigation that left a Pittsburgh FBI agent dead in 2008 is set to admit his guilt in a new drug ring that operated inside the U.S. prison system.” post-gazette.com/news/crime-cou…

Uhhh...fuck.
“Fed agents say the prison drug ring sneaked narcotics into the prisons by saturating bogus court docs & greeting cards w/ synthetic cannabinoids.
From there, inmates cut up the paper into small pieces for distribution among other inmates who swallowed or smoked it.”

“The inmates paid for the paper with money from their prison accounts. Agents monitoring those accounts discovered that funds were being transferred from customer accounts to the accounts of inmate dealers and then to conspirators on the outside.”

Friends and family.
“The ring had also sold large amounts of drugs outside of prison walls since 2017, dealing heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, painkillers and suboxone.”
...the ringleader was drug dealer Noah Landfried, whose conduit into the prison system was his brother Ross.”

Real estate.
“Prosecutors say another key player on the outside was Michel Cercone of Sewickley, a former real estate agent who according to wiretaps worked closely w/ Noah Landfried in preparing the paper to be sent into the prisons and also sold drugs in Western Pennsylvania.”