The Debt Paid in Real Estate

A man who had served a prison term abroad for drug crimes says he then left the trade. A wiretap investigation into another trafficker recorded evidence that, prosecutors say, shows he came back: he took over that trafficker's drug debt, paid it off with real estate, and later helped move cocaine. He was arrested abroad and extradited. He says the prosecution is payback for his exposing a scheme in which a government informant sold traffickers fake cooperation deals, and complains the judge kept the jury from hearing about it.