There were two power couples at the helm - Before it was leg

Pete Wagner ran the boats for The Company and became one of its most memorable figures — loud, fearless, and fiercely loyal. He's gone now, but his story survives in his own recorded words, and in the people who loved and worked beside him.

Lynn was Don's partner when it al started in Flroida. He was the guy who arranged the freighters, who travled to Colombia and Asia. He is no longer alive but his stories live on through the rest of us.

Jimmy was the CFO - he arranged distribution, money movement, transportation logistics on land - acros America.

Jinny ran her own smuggling crew and her own boats before she ever fell in with The Company — a rare thing in a business built almost entirely by men. She went on to  build a legitimate business that later sold for more than $40 million.

Carol was Steinberg's fiancé' during the peak years, a preacher's granddaughter who left a churchgoing Hollywood, Florida family behind to run with him. She died young, on the run, and her story is carried forward today by the family and friends who loved her.

Joe was Steinberg's best friend, a bond that started before the start in the McDonald's parking lot and carried through prison and everything after. He's gone now, but the friendship is one of the throughlines of the whole story.

Glen led the organization's growth out of Arizona, a key artery in how product and people moved across the country. He was there for the buildout years, when the operation went from ambitious to enormous.

Cee-Weed was a Hare Krishna running with one of the largest marijuana smuggling operations in American history — exactly as unlikely as it sounds. He was part of the tight, nickname-only inner crew that made up the boat side of The Company.

Magida was a close friend and business partner who worked alongside Steinberg for years — boat deals, stash houses. He later wrote his own account of that world, Halfway to Bimini, and dedicated it to "my lifelong friend, Don Steinberg."

Diesel Joe made huge strides for the organizations growth bringing in freighters...Joe Metzger

CJ - known in the organization as "Cocaine Johnny" — was one of Steinberg's closesidekicks through the peak years of the operation. He appears throughout the DEA's own surveillance and informant reports, a fixture of the inner circle.

Dapper drove freighters and the operation's biggest yachts, the kind of runs that required nerve and precision in equal measure. The name was earned, not given.

Dapper drove freighters and the operation's biggest yachts, the kind of runs that required nerve and precision in equal measure. The name was earned, not given.

Dapper drove freighters and the operation's biggest yachts, the kind of runs that required nerve and precision in equal measure. The name was earned, not given.

Dapper drove freighters and the operation's biggest yachts, the kind of runs that required nerve and precision in equal measure. The name was earned, not given.

Shark Man ran boats alongside Pete Wagner, one of the crew's most trusted hands on the water. Decades later, the nickname still fits.

Rezab has known Steinberg since boyhood, long before any of this began. He's the one voice who can confirm the story before it was a story — who Don was before he became Bones.

English leased Steinberg the Learjets that moved people and product across the operation's reach. The two men grew closer in prison than they'd ever been on the outside, and stayed close long after.

Charlie flew for Steinberg as one of his pilots, part of the small circle trusted to move the organization's most valuable cargo. He's still around to tell it himself, in his own words.

Jim was the lawyer who maneuvered through the legal ins and outs for years. He was the lead attorney for everyone in the organization .

Michael was part of the early days in Chicago, he  ran the car loads that moved product from Arizona to Chicago, one of the organization's key overland routes. He stayed close to Steinberg through  it all  and remains one of his closest friends today.

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