Yup
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/february2010/blackmafia.aspx.
"Meech and Terry entered the market in a businesslike manner..they sat down with Atlanta major cocaine dealers and offered them a better price: 17,000 $ a kilo...they were able to undercut the competition cause they had access to such a vast supply"
BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
According to the transcripts....the Bricks were bought on consignment
the process was described in the BMF book as rather complex involving a network of labs and couriers across the nation:
"In the mid 1990s ..Terry and Meech were hooked up with a California Source ..who could plug them in witg a Mexican Connect who would supply them with Colombian Coke straight from Mexico.
Thanks to the Mexican connection..the Flenorys were able to move hundreds and occasionaly over one thousand bricks of cocaine a month.
There were two prices the brothers paid for cocaine...dependent on the payment plan...buying the kilos outright which was a BUY..or if they bought the bricks on CONSIGNMENT a pick up noq ..pay later arrangement..the price was upped..this deal was called a PUSH.
Regardless of the payment plan.the deal was for pure uncut cocaine.
And so the next stop for all the bricks was one of several labs that the brothers operated in Detroit..St. Louis...and Atlanta.
The labs were for processing ..workers had the task of breaking apart each kilo and removing 125 grams (an eighth of its tital weight)
The weight was.replaced or cut with a filler or comeback.
Both the cocaine and the filler and a liquid additive ned.Pro Scent was thrown into a food processor blended.
then workers used spatulas to spoon the mixture into a mold.
Finally a five ton hydraulic jack pressed the Kilo back together.
For every seven kilos cuz...blended and repressed..a new kilo would be formed out of grams thst had been removed.
ALL THE CUT KILOS WOULD BE 90 PERCENT PURE...
Sounds like a lot of work..but consider thst hundreds of kilos was being processed at each lab.
For every one thousand kilos cut...an additional 100 kilos were created!"
Pg 67
BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family