This guy being a multimillionare, I'd wager better than even money that it was closer to 500 grams than 10 grams.
“Drug Clearing House, how may I help you today sir?”
Why? I don’t know how much he bought. They say it was some amount less than 500 grams. Five hundred grams would be an awful lot to have for personally use though, even if a guy was having an all weekend coke party and providing all the party supplies. Whether the guy was filthy rich or not that would be an awful lot of coke to have on hand. I still don’t see a really rich guy buying that little to sell though. Cocaine prices vary a lot, but about $1000 an ounce is pretty common in my area. I’m a criminal defense attorney and I’ve seen plenty of delivery cases where that’s what an ounce cost the confidential informant or undercover cops in my area. Kilo’s, a 1000 grams, will often go for around $15,000 to $20,000 in my area. I wouldn’t be surprised if a pound costs $10,000 or less where this guy is from. Grams maybe costs $60 or $80, and “eight balls” around $150, but he wouldn’t be messing with selling small amounts for a little extra pocket change when he has millions already. That just doesn’t make any sense. If I had to bet right now not knowing anything about the case other than that he had less than 500 grams, I’d bet it was closer to the neighborhood of a couple of ounces tops rather than in excess of a pound. He’s not going to have that many friends he’ll do coke with. He’s a politician and he’s got to keep that all hush hush. He might buy quantity though to save a buck because it gets cheaper and cheaper the more you buy, and a guy like this might also want to buy quantity to limit his contact with drug dealer types by buying enough to last. He doesn’t want to run out in the middle of a binge and have to go cruising in the seedy parts of town looking to score some more. That’s too risky.
Who knows what happened here? It would be interesting to learn some of the back story on all this. Maybe he was consorting with a bunch of strippers and liked to have lots of coke around to keep them happy. Maybe he was buying it to help him schmooze a bunch of coke snorting high roller campaign donors. We’ll probably never hear the whole story. But I bet we see him check himself into rehab.