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Just sounds like advanced capitalism to me
It’s been a while since we had a good Florida story, so let’s get a new one on the books.
Ronald Evans Senior is an enterprising Floridian. He and his wife would go to homeless shelters and recruit folks to work at the two migrant labor camps they owned. They would pay these new employees minimum wage (see, they’re not bad people - they complied with the wage laws!) to work out in potato and cabbage fields all day. At the end of a busy day toiling on the fields, the formerly addicted and homeless employees could then go shopping at the little commissary the couple set up.
Sounds like everything would’ve maybe been ok, but since this story comes from Florida, you know there’s something off. And in this case, that something would be the fact that the this little commissary was selling crack, cocaine, smokes and beer, all at marked up prices.
Seems reasonable to me. Nothing motivates workers more than highly-priced after-work drugs and hooch. But the state of Florida just had to come down on our enterprising entrepreneurial couple. Last August, Ronald was convicted of 57 (!) charges, including running a criminal enterprise and dealing drugs and contraband, and his wife was convicted of 49 charges of her own. Both of the labor camps have been forfeited to the government and the couple also owes the state over $1 million. Ronald was just sentenced to a nice little 30 year stint in the clink, and his wife is due for sentencing next month.
I bet Ronald will be able to put his contraband selling to quite a profitable turn in prison. I mean, sure, he’ll have to muscle in on whatever group is already doing such business, but it sounds like Ronald has been preparing for this endeavor his whole life. Good luck Ronny, good luck!
