Talk:Max Mermelstein

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"Novel like"
We should have a tag for that. This is written like some non-fiction criminal account for a cable TV station. Drmies (talk) 16:59, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I have seen a few different sources describing "Rafa" in an over-the-top manner. Here is a WaPo article that could be used to re-write that section if someone is up to it. - Location (talk) 22:57, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Mermelstein's Role Inflated Roberts' Role Minimized
This article credits Mermelstein with much that was done by Jon Roberts...One has to read Robert's 'American Desperado' to understand that Mermelstein was really just a citizenship marriage to Ochoa's female relative in order to get Rafa in to Miami and connected to the Cocaine market...The real heavy lifter was Gambino/Lucchese mafia family member John Riccobono (AKA Jon Roberts) who was brought in to the cartel because of his advanced knowledge of criminal underground logistics, practices, and connections that enabled him to quickly ramp up cocaine smuggling from the Medellin Cartel in to a murderous multi billion dollar operation...In a short decade Roberts had smuggled at least 15 billion dollars of cocaine in to the US and was the main American manager for the Medellin Cartel who was responsible for most of the cocaine imported in to the US, and he had managed to do it completely off of the government's radar...It was actually Mermelstein who, because of his feeling of a need to prove himself vs Roberts, blundered in to a sting involving Delorean who was being surveilled by US drug agencies...Roberts was such a powerful player that he got pulled in to covert weapons smuggling to the Contras because of the compromise caused by Mermelstein that eventually toppled the Ochoa empire... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:6C3:4000:C5C0:55D3:2BB3:1672:2625 (talk) 08:36, 10 October 2021 (UTC)