THE THANKS HE GOT
The 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.
FABRICATED ‘FACTS’
Those who know the details of the Hoffa case can only wonder why Scorsese would invest so much in this questionable story.
TRUST ME, I WAS THERE
Hollywood 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.
FROM KID TO CRIMINAL
Richard 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.
VENDETTA
Richard 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?
