Paul Lir Alexander
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Paul Lir Alexander A.K.A. El Parito Loco, Paulo Ferriera Rothstein was a Brazilian drug smuggler who shipped cocaine
Cocaine
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
while simultaneously helping the DEA
Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States...
bust other smugglers.
History
Paul Lir Alexander was born in the town of Laguna, Santa CatarinaLaguna, Santa Catarina
Laguna is a Brazilian city located in the southern state of Santa Catarina, 120 kilometers south of the state's capital, Florianópolis, and north east of Porto Alegre. Its coordinates are 28.48/28°28'57" S and the longitude is 48.779/48°46'51" W. In 2004, the population was 48,956 and the area was...
on July 27, 1956. His mother later married a railroad worker. The family moved to the suburb of Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
called Novo Hamburgo
Novo Hamburgo
Novo Hamburgo is a city in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.Its population is 237,044 . The city covers an area of 217 square kilometers, and the average temperature is 19°C, a mild one for the region...
. Paul attended high school in this town. He came an entrepreneur at an early age, selling ice creams on the beach in the summer and hot peanuts door to door during the winter. He married a woman named Claire or Clarese when he was 15 or 16 years old. When he was 17, he and his father had a violent physical fight, both were hospitalized. Paul agreed to join the Israeli Army to get out of Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
.
The people of Brasil know him as - "O barao da cocaina". The English translation of this phrase is - "The Baron of Cocaine"
In 1982 he was in Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
helping Lt. Col. Oliver North
Oliver North
Oliver Laurence North is a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, political commentator, host of War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel, a military historian, and a New York Times best-selling author....
during the Iran-Contra Affair
Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran–Contra affair , also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or Iran-Contra-Gate, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior Reagan administration officials and President Reagan secretly facilitated the sale of...
. He claimed that he was seduced into the drug dealing world there. He also made another statement later claiming he had been involved in drug dealing since 1979.
Xuxa
After Nicaragua Mossad assigned him to São PauloSão Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Brasil. His cover set up by Mossad was a "one girl talent agent office." In 1983 his only client was Maria da Graça Meneghel. Maria had been in Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
magazine's Brazilian edition in December 1982, which led to her being cast in the motion picture Amor Estranho Amor (Love Strange Love, IMDB page) in which she plays a prostitute
Prostitution
Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...
who seduces a 13 year old boy. Over the next four years he developed her into the rock and roll super star Xuxa
Xuxa
Xuxa , Maria da Graça "Xuxa" Meneghel, born March 27, 1963 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host...
.
During the mid to late 1980s. He bought a home in North Miami Beach and maintained close ties with the CIA. Around this time he divorced his first wife Claire and became involved with another woman named Erika, a dancer on television. Erica came from a poor family. Her father was a sergeant in the state of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
prison service. She later married Alexander and had two children with him Tiffany alexander and yosef matthew alexander.
One of his methods involved packing cocaine inside large electric transformers and shipping them to the United States. At the height of his wealth, Alexander had a $5 million dollar group of condominiums in the Barra da Tijuca
Tijuca
Tijuca is a neighbourhood of the Northern Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It comprises the region of Saens Peña and Afonso Pena squares. According to the 2000 Census, the district has close to 150,000 inhabitants...
section of Rio de Janeiro. He had a million dollar house in North Miami Beach. He had a Hawker Sidley corporate jet. He had a $25 million dollar mega yacht he kept docked in Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo is an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco....
. (He claimed that he was a good friend of Prince Ranier of Monaco.) He had a fleet of motor cars and a 64000 acres (259 km²) ranch in Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest in area, located in the western part of the country.Neighboring states are Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Tocantins, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul. It also borders Bolivia to the southwest...
, Brasil. His personal fortune was in the range of $100 million dollars. Before his arrest in April, 1993, Alexander was raising $350,000,000 to buy the Manchete television network
Rede Manchete
Rede Manchete was a television network from Brazil. It first aired on June 5, 1983 in Rio de Janeiro and simultaneously in other 5 Brazilian cities, like São Paulo on Rede Exclesior's old channel 9 frequency...
in Brazil.
Arrest
Paul Alexander served over twelve years in prison for drug dealing in the United States. While in prison undercover agent Jerry Speziale published his book, Without A Badge. The book detailed the activities and methods of how he and Alexander brought down some of the biggest drug lords, including Alexander himself. Alexander was enraged that his dirty laundry was now being published. Paul Alexander actually sued Speziale under the pretense that the book violated his privacy. From the lawsuit:- Speziale explains how he was able to infiltrate powerful drug distribution cartels and dupe them into believing that he was a trustworthy member of the illegal drug importing network. In fact, Speziale and the others involved in the undercover investigation would arrange for the shipments to be seized, and then attempt to foist off blame on other members of the importation network. This casting of blame was critical to the success of the undercover activities because the people found to be responsible for drug seizures were no longer trusted and were liable to be killed by the Colombian drug lords running the cocaine cartels. In his book, Speziale describes how Alexander’s sophistication and familiarity with the customs of these drug lords and the distribution network were critical to the success of the government’s undertakings.http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/1/9/144456/7843
In the end the courts ruled that Speziale’s book did not violate Alexander’s privacy, and the case was dismissed. Towards the end of his sentence, he came under investigation in March, 2005 on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Sheriff Jerry Speziale of Passaic County
Passaic County, New Jersey
Passaic County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 501,226. Its county seat is Paterson...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. His partner's Florida home was raided. No charges were filed. He was deported to Brasil in September, 2005. He is in jail in Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. He faces drug dealing charges with a maximum sentence of 25 years.
Since his time with the Brazilian Federal Police
Brazilian Federal Police
The Polícia Federal is the federal police force of Brazil subordinate to the Ministry of Justice, whose main assignments are the investigations of crimes against the Federal Government or its organs and companies, the combat of international drug trafficking and terrorism, and immigration and...
they claim that Alexander has directed major drug dealing operations between 1997-1999 while he was a Federal prison inmate. They allege that some 5 tons of cocaine was seized as well as 24 aircraft.
Alexander was eventually sentenced to a staggering 42 years in prison. (Such a prison sentence in Brasil is normally only reserved for serial killers. He was confined from 2005 until August of 2010 at Nelson Hungria Prison in Minas Gerais, Brasil. Alexander had a team of attorneys working on various appeals. He finally was granted permission to begin work release. On August 10, 2011 Paul Lir Alexander left the prison walls and went out for his day of court-approved work release. He never returned. Alexander had been in custody since April of 1993. After over 17 years in prison, one can only speculate on how good it felt to finally taste freedom.
As of November 19,2011, Alexander was still at large, He even maintains a Facebook page. There is a lot of speculation as to where Alexander went after he was released from prison. My first guess was Israel. He would not have been sent back to Brasil if discovered there. However my step son, Joao B. Santos, thinks that this is too obvious. He believes that Alexander is "hiding in plain sight" in Brasil. This is possible.
Paul Alexaner is the most interesting man that I have met in my entire life. I believe that he was a Mossad agent and I believe most of his story. The big mystery for me concerns the American authorities and Alexander. He ran a big drug ring from inside American Federal prisons and was never caught despite close monitoring of all of his communications. He also was literally involved in a murder conspiracy and never charged. For some reason the American authorities looked the other way. Why?