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Richard Wershe Jr. (Richard John Wershe Jr.) was born on 18 July, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., is a Former drug trafficker and FBI informant. Discover Richard Wershe Jr.'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?
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Richard John Wershe Jr. |
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54 years old |
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Cancer |
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18 July 1969 |
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18 July |
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Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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United States
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Richard Wershe Jr. Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Richard Wershe Jr. Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Richard Wershe Jr. worth at the age of 54 years old? Richard Wershe Jr.’s income source is mostly from being a successful Former. He is from United States. We have estimated Richard Wershe Jr.'s net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Richard Wershe Jr. (born July 18, 1969), known as "White Boy Rick", is an American former drug trafficker and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant.
The youngest known informant in the history of the FBI, Wershe became a confidential informant when he was 14 to 16 years old.
When he was 15, Wershe told the FBI that a major drug dealer had spoken of paying a bribe to Detroit detective inspector and subsequent city council president and mayoral candidate Gil Hill in order to quash the investigation into a 13-year-old boy's murder.
At the age of 17, Wershe was arrested for possession of 8 kg of cocaine and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
He was sentenced to life in prison in Michigan under the state's 650-Lifer Law, a drug statute passed in 1973 that penalized those found in possession of more than 650 g of cocaine or heroin with life imprisonment without parole.
They lived there during a period from the mid 1980s to early 1990s when Detroit and many other major American cities were gaining widespread reputations for crime and violence, largely due to an influx of cocaine and the emergence of the crack cocaine epidemic.
Wershe's father was also an FBI informant and first reported to the police and the federal agency alongside him before going solo.
The name "White Boy Rick" was not a street name that Wershe used himself, nor was it one he was ever called by those with whom he associated.
The name was instead given to him by reporters who covered his case.
When Wershe was 16 the FBI, having secured 20 convictions through his infiltration of a violent drug gang, ceased to employ him as an informant.
In 1987, at 17 years of age, Wershe was arrested for possessing cocaine in excess of 8 kg.
The law was overturned but he was rejected as a menace to society by the Michigan Parole Board in 2003, despite (or perhaps because of) having assisted the FBI in the 1990s with a sting unsuccessfully targeting Gil Hill and drawing in the relatives of influential city politicians.
In 2016, a notorious former Detroit hitman alleged Hill had once tried to commission the murder of Wershe.
Wershe and his working class family lived in a neighborhood on the east side of Detroit about 7 mi from the city center.
In 2017, justice campaigners publicized Wershe's case and he was subsequently paroled, but directly to a prison in Florida to serve another five years for an auto theft conviction from 2008.
Campaigners for Wershe have suggested to reporters that the length of his incarceration may have been connected to him having provided the FBI with information leading to the arrest of family members and associates of former Detroit mayor Coleman A. Young, as well as the allegation about Young's political Ally Hill.
Publicity about the case in 2017, by which time he had spent nearly three decades behind bars in Michigan as a nonviolent drug offender whose offense was committed when he was 17, led to him being paroled, but directly to US Marshals who took him to begin serving five years in Florida State Prison on a 2008 car theft ring conviction (crime committed behind bars).
White Boy, a documentary chronicling the case of Richard Wershe Jr., premiered on March 31, 2017, at the Freep Film Festival where it won the Audience Choice Award.
White Boy Rick, a film based on his life, was released on September 14, 2018.
Eminem plays Wershe on the TV show BMF.
While not the central focus, Wershe does appear on the show in a recurring capacity.
Bones (rapper) made a song called WhiteBoyRick.
In 2019, his application was denied by the Florida clemency board.
It began airing on the Starz network in 2019 and was picked up by Netflix in April 2021.
On July 20, 2020, Wershe was released from custody in Florida, having completed his sentence with credits for good behavior.
In July 2021, Wershe sued the FBI, saying in the lawsuit that: "Had I not been an informant for the task force, I would never have gotten involved with drug gangs or criminality of any sort", and that the FBI's actions amounted to child abuse.