White Boy Rick, Youngest FBI Snitch, Released After 32 Years
THE THANKS HE GOTThe FBI recruited him as a paid informant on the drug world when he was just 14, and did nothing when he was jailed for a non-violent drug offense.
‘The Irishman’ Is a Big Lie. This Is What Happened to Hoffa.
FABRICATED ‘FACTS’Those who know the details of the Hoffa case can only wonder why Scorsese would invest so much in this questionable story.
‘White Boy Rick’ Whitewashes Real Story of FBI’s Teen Snitch
TRUST ME, I WAS THEREHollywood made an aspirational role for Matthew McConaughey, but the character in real life was an abuser who pimped out his 14-year-old son to the feds for money.
How the FBI Made a Teen Into Cocaine Legend ‘White Boy Rick’
FROM KID TO CRIMINALRichard Wershe Jr. was recruited as an informant at 14 and helped put away Detroit’s crooked cops and a relative of its tyrannical mayor. Then the law got payback.
The Cocaine Legend Who Busted Dirty Cops
VENDETTARichard Wershe was a teen informant for the FBI who helped lock up Detroit's most corrupt—then went to prison for life. Is a vendetta at work?