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105: Part 2: William Rodriguez Abadia is The Son of the Cali Cartel

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In our final installment from the 2023 Southern California Gang Conference, our guest is the son of one of the original founders of the Cali cartel. William Rodriguez Abadia took over for his father, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, after he was captured and extradited back to the United States to stand trial. In his absence, William survived an attempted assassination and continued the drug operations. This is a riveting insider account of what it was like to lead the largest drug organization in the world.

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

Huh?

0:30.0

Did what point you get involved in the actual drug operation?

0:46.0

Well, I never did drug, drug trafficking.

0:48.2

You never, never involved in any of that?

0:50.2

Never, never.

0:51.2

Because you're not gonna believe this, because I totally don't believe this, but the last

0:57.6

shipment that my father sent was in 96.

1:02.5

He sent a hundred kilos to Houston, and some toxic, toxic works, but they say that he

1:12.7

was sending 150...

1:13.7

A guy who sent 3 tons, 1500 tons of cocaine was sending 150 kilos, so that's something

1:21.8

doesn't add up, you see, but you know, and it's understandable, I'm not judging nobody.

1:28.4

Son, that totally is what I hear, what somebody wants to say, and that's what they want

1:34.1

to say, so they go for it, so.

1:37.0

But you, but I know during your session with Murf at the conference, you also mentioned

1:41.5

that you were handling a lot of the corruption and a lot of the bribery.

1:45.7

At what point did that start?

1:48.5

My father's capture, August 5 or 6 of 95?

1:53.2

So, I'm a lawyer, so I can go in prison, whatever I want, you know, to see that, so.

2:05.2

So he called me and said, hey, he was captured a Sunday, and he called me like Monday, and

2:12.7

told me, hey, son, I need to talk to you, so.

2:15.0

Now, when you go in as a lawyer, though, I don't know the way it is in Colombia, so tell

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