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Yo what's good evil streets fam y'all know the deal we back at it again with another episode shout out to all my day ones the members and subscribers who stay locked in on the regular Real talk y'all the backbone of this whole operation the reason this channel keeps climbing Anyone trying to get their music brand or hustle promoted hit my line evil streets media at gmail.com and we can work something out. Much love to everyone who blessed the cash app too and if you trying to support the movement you can send it to evil streets TV on cash app every dollar gets pumped right back into the content Aight bet let's dive into this street chronicle When crack had New York in a chokehold Jamaica Queens was dead smack in the middle of the city's narcotics empire and them notorious 40 projects known on the streets as the 40p's was the absolute nerve center The spot officially called the South Jamaica houses stretched across 23 acres of low-rise three-story brick structures A monument to public housing that morphed into a war zone for survival and power One day 50 unmarked police whips pulled up near York College on Guy Brewer Boulevard a clear sign something major was about to pop off Under Inspector Martin O'Boyle's command the fleet launched a full-scale raid racing toward the 40 projects with one objective Shut down the powerful narcotics operations that transformed this community into a breeding ground for violence and suffering But them 40 projects wasn't just some random block in the dope game. This was a stronghold And sitting at the peak of the food chain was James Wall Corley street name Wall He wasn't just some corner boss. He was the landlord of the whole operation Running the profitable drug business inside the 40p's His bloodline the Corley's were treated like hood royalty in the neighborhood Demanding respect loyalty and pure fear When Wall Corley got knocked in May 2012 the police commissioner at the time Raymond Kelly called him the ghost a Handle that perfectly captured Corley's legend for dodging the law for damn near forever Running things out of South Jamaica Queens specifically the 40 projects Corley was a living myth Holding down his territory on the streets while staying two moves ahead of the badges The tale of Corley's downfall started with a string of narcotics sweeps that kicked off years before Documented in an October 26th 1988 piece in the Daily News This article laid out a crucial raid led by a fresh commander of the narcotics division Which represented the peak of efforts to destroy Queens most dominant drug syndicates Corley's organization was identified as the final one of what the commander called the four major gangs in Queens Among those taken down were the supreme team previously run by Kenneth supreme Magriff Which had controlled the local narcotics scene throughout the 1980s The November 24th 1987 bust of Magriff alongside 17 associates described as flunkies by the media left the crew in shambles Another one was Tony Montana's operation named after the legendary Scarface protagonist which had also been systematically hit by law enforcement Finally Lorenzo fat cat Nichols another notorious name in the Queens drug world watched his kingdom collapse during the same time period With Corley's arrest authorities viewed it as the conclusion of an era in Queens a symbolic finish to the crack epidemic that destroyed communities in the 1980s The probe into the four dominant drug syndicates in Queens the supreme team Tony Montana's crew fat cats operation and Wall Corley's gang was led by an aggressive new police squad called TNT Or the tactical narcotics team TNT was created with the main goal of flooding the streets with investigators and undercover agents their approach depended heavily on buy and bust tactics which went after low-level drug slingers After locking up these street-level workers the squad would squeeze out vital intel to hand off to federal Anti-drug units letting them go after the top-tier members of these drug organizations the New York mayor at the time Ed Koch would announce the TNT Offensive as his number one priority Despite the city dealing with budget cuts Koch made it obvious that the operation was critical even commanding Department heads to cut their budgets to get the necessary funding in 1988 he put up $32.9 million and in 1989 an even bigger amount of 83.1 million dollars to keep the initiative running the original TNT operation started in March 1988 focusing on the square mile zone of South Jamaica Queens the wave of law enforcement came as a direct answer to the execution style murder of rookie police officer Edward Byrne a Vicious incident that strengthened the city's dedication to wiping out the drug trade and bringing order back to struggling neighborhoods like South Jamaica Before James Wall Corley's arrest in 2012 He was often viewed as the untouchable figure who managed to slip through serious consequences when I say got away I mean Corley was the one out of the group of four major Queens drug kingpins who didn't catch a kingpin charge or a life bid This difference made his situation unique leading to his alias ghost a label that former police commissioner Raymond Kelly would drop to describe him Corley's skill at avoiding lengthy prison stretches and staying mostly off the grid contributed to this alias Some even say that the popular TV character ghost from the show power was loosely inspired by Corley Suggesting his mysterious and slippery nature in the drug underworld His family was heavily involved in the drug hustle with James Wall Corley's mother Sadie Corley catching the infamous tag Mama crack because of her participation in the narcotics business Authorities even recognized her position in the underworld stating she had put in time in the narcotics game as well James Wall Corley along with his brothers Darnell and Irvin built a notorious name in the 40p's a wild and dangerous hood in South Jamaica Queens during the chaotic 1980s Corley was also a key player in the infamous seven crowns a Queens crew composed of some of the boroughs most prominent drug traffickers By the time of his 1988 arrest law enforcement calculated that Corley was operating a $5 million a year enterprise Which would be the equivalent of over $13 million today I'm not exactly sure how much time James Wall Corley did for his 1988 drug related arrest But it wasn't long because he would find himself arrested again years later on a manslaughter charge The details of this charge were that Corley allegedly stomped someone out thinking the person to be a confidential informant For this he did roughly three years behind bars Despite Corley avoiding the harshest penalties in the aftermath of the Edward Byrne murder Which saw key figures like fat cat and papi mason taking the brunt of the fall the collateral damage from that homicide Would still echo through Southside Queens for years Many of the dealers from that period connected with the South Jamaica area would pay for their ties to the drug trade Some with their lives some with prison bids At the age of 51 after decades of dodging serious legal consequences James Wall Corley was finally caught His long history of drug related activities finally caught up with him when he Along with 45 others was arrested in a 15-month investigation by the NYPD and Queens DA's office called Operation Southside During the press conference about the arrest authorities pointed out Corley's cleverness How he shifted from the drug trade days of the 1980s to more recent involvement allegedly supplying the Southside bloods However in a notable mistake police commissioner Raymond Kelly falsely stated during that press conference That the supreme team was responsible for the 1988 fatal shooting of officer Edward Byrne When in reality the shooting was carried out by a different group Despite this misinformation Kelly ended his remarks by saying that While Corley wasn't charged in the officer's murder Generations of police officers took some satisfaction in watching an associate linked to Byrne's killer finally face justice He was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance and police allegedly recovered cocaine 10 vials of a common cocaine additive 45 forged five dollar bills and various drug paraphernalia during a search of his residence authorities said 10 people who authorities claimed were members and associates of Corley's crew Were among those arrested investigators said Detective David Leonardi from the NYPD's Queens gang squad described a coded language the supreme alphabet allegedly used by Corley's group to quantify drugs and guns Police and prosecutors said members of a second drug gang called the Southside Bloods Which sold to customers in Baisley Gardens and other neighborhoods in Southeast Queens Were also targeted in the operation Southside investigation Authorities said 33 year old Alan Mitchell of South Jamaica Who was allegedly the drug supplier for the Southside Bloods Was arrested in January and charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance According to the Queens DA's office Mitchell whose street name is fat boy pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance in February And was sentenced to between one and a half and three years in prison Investigators said four other men arrested including one who allegedly was found in possession of two loaded guns Are also believed to have been integral to the operation's distribution network The takedown of Corley's organization represented more than just another drug bust in the annals of New York law enforcement It symbolized the final chapter of a generation that had built empires on the misery of communities already struggling with poverty and despair From the supreme team to fat cat Nichols to Tony Montana's crew and finally to James Wall Corley the evolution of these criminal enterprises and their systematic dismantling showed how patience investigative work and coordinated law enforcement could chip away at even the most entrenched criminal operations The streets of South Jamaica and the 40 projects would never quite recover from the chaos these men sowed but their eventual capture sent a clear message that in the end the law always catches up The ghost could run but he couldn't hide forever and that's the legacy of James Wall Corley a reminder that no matter how clever how connected or how untouchable a kingpin believes himself to be there's always a reckoning waiting on the other side Peace