Russell Brothers
Russell White Brothers, Jr. (born June 1937), is an American businessman in Nashville, Tennessee.
He was born into a prosperous and socially prominent family in Nashville, and had considerable advantages as far as education and upbringing. Despite this, his avocation as an airplane pilot turned to cocaine trafficking on a large scale. According to one judge, Brothers became "the giant among giants" in international smuggling. Brothers made his money by flying planes loaded with large amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the Bahamas, then transporting the cocaine by high-speed boats to south Florida and from there to Tennessee, and eventually to Canada. The millions of dollars in profits were directed to banks in Belgium, Gibraltar, Montreal, Panama, and Costa Rica. These funds were then reinvested locally in order to launder the money. Brothers testified that he would fly as much as 600 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to the Bahamas, then to Nashville, unload the bags into a van, then take them to his Belle Meade home. From there he would take the cocaine to his family's Williamson County farm, where Canadian purchasers would pick it up.
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