[zaxxon]

"She basically said, 'I'm going to get paid by the white boys,' " H.P. Thomas, the former security manager at the Platinum Club, said in an interview Friday. "I said, 'Whatever,' because no one takes her seriously."

Well, one person takes her seriously. Some toad-faced goof who thinks he's the reincarnation of Oliver effin Cromwell.

[CondorFlight]

It wouldn't surprise me to learn (purely IMHO, of course), that if there are major criminal figures (read, drug trafficers) residing in the Durham area, (because the climate of protection there is 'healthful' for their endeavors), that they pay off all in sight to maintain that climate;

and that those on the receving end of the money might include even persons farther up the food chain than just the locals in Durham.