Nicky Barnes aka "Mister Untouchable"
Drug Trafficker /Godfather
After Barnes cooperated with the government by working as an informant,
Rudolph Giuliani sought a reversal of Barnes' life sentence. Eventually, he was resentenced to 35 years and housed in a special Witness Security Unit at
Federal Correctional Institution in
Otisville, New York. By working in jail, he earned two months off and was released in August 1998.
He worked all the time ... He worked in the kitchen, in the dining area, separating the recycle stuff from the regular garbage. You name it he did it. He seemed obsessed.
— Prison official
In 2007, Barnes and his former competitor,
Frank Lucas, sat down with
New York magazine's
Mark Jacobsonfor an historic conversation between men who had not spoken to each other in three decades.
[7]
Now in his 80s, Barnes is part of the
United States Federal Witness Protection Program. He wrote his memoir,
Mr. Untouchable: My Crimes and Punishments, in 2007,
[8] and appears in a documentary about his gang life, also titled
Mr. Untouchable(2007).
[2][3] On January 31, 2008,
Howard Stern interviewed Barnes on Stern's
Sirius Satellite Radio show.
[9]
Barnes' name is mentioned in a scene in the 1995 Movie
Dead Presidents, the scene itself set in 1969.
In real life tho. Quite a few Drug Dealers are workin wit some of da Police.
Police got Bills too