Original British Dragon Founder Dies After Being Released from Federal Prison

The USA should have left him in Thailand, The USA doesn't extradite their countryman, not even murderers.

Shame on the the USA, what had Richard done to deserve this?? And now play the innocent?? Why not put him in Guantanamo Bay? For selling steroids, I have to puke..

..some info I got from his sollicitors..

He was released from prison early there a few weeks ago because he became so sick there with pneumonia and the USA didn't want to pay the hospital bill or have him die while they still held him. So he was still in the hospital afterward and didn't get better. His wife and daughter were there at the end. He will be cremated in the US.

What I've been hearing is that dea where getting physical with him for not co-operating , but not sure if thats true.

He is in for a short time because the prosecutor wanted him for 46 months, then credited his entire time in Thailand and the lawyer got some further time discounted. They were only interested in the conviction, not information. The lawyer made it pretty clear it was not a good idea to go to trial. The US had a deal that Ashley would return to testify, plus they have the confidential informant XXX, plus evidence from his computer. If he had gone to trial and had lost, the penalty would have been higher. He had no forfeiture to the US. The US tried in the beginning to get his assets, but the Thais returned everything. The US is satisfied to have a conviction on the books. Statistics!

Here is an update on Richard Crawley. He was extradited to the US at the beginning of the week. He pled guilty. With time served and time discounts, he is expected to be released in about 4 months and sent out of the US. I don't know if it will be to UK (as he is British - Ashley was deported to UK, I believe) or Thailand. I made a mistake. Richard likely will be sentenced in April or May and as I understand it now, the extra 4 months will be awarded then. What I am not sure about if they start now or at the time of sentencing. I am waiting for a clarification from the attorney.

Richard's 4 months in the US started this week, so he will be done in mid-July.

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Here is the video of Richard Crawley's arrest in March 2008:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaYC2RdFHA

YouTube - British Dragon Founder and Redicat Busted

Here is background info on the case:

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You are completely right Millard.

I'll write a complete article on Juicedmuscle about this case, I'll also publish the DEA documents stolen from Vienna (no one ever saw them exept "the inner circle"). The Austrian branch is arrested, both Richard and Mark death and Mihael scamming with AP. More info..

Basically what happened is when the Thai Police/DEA raided Ashley and Richards houses, they didn't find any steroids in Richards house, but they did in Ashley's.. as you may have read in the pattayamail articles, Richard was the main target of the raid as it described him as the 'boss' and Ashley as just someone who worked for him, this is true considering it was Richard that would buy the powder and manufacter the paper products that Ashley sold, in other words he would make as much money on each of Ashleys sales as Ashley did, and that was small potatoes compared to Richards distribution of British Dragon products which was his main business(as you know)..

So once they had them and they started extradition proceedings, R decided to fight extradition and Ashley decided to cooperate fully(particularly testifying against Richard).. I found odd R would fight it since the sentencing guidelines for steroids actually isn't that long-and fighting extradition takes A VERY LONG TIME-at least 2 years, as you probably know GYMACE (who didn't fight extradition) spent about 6 months in fed prison before being released; i believe there is a fed website where you can actually type in his name and see his release date.. BUT if you read the indictment for gymace which was also posted online you will find the answer -the feds wanted millions of dollars in fines from GA.. from what I've heard the feds will usually in these cases offer to drop the money laundering charges against the subject if he turns over the loot, sentencing guidelines for money laundering is 10 years, steroids is only 1 or 2 and you usually get out in 6 months if you behave..
this is why I believe Richard is fighting the extradition, if he can beat extradition he gets to keep his millions-which he has stashed from Britain to Bulgaria to Thailand; if he gets extradited than he'll be faced with the same predicament- 10 to 20 years or turn over the loot.. Ashley is stuck waiting with Richard because they have to be extradited together so he can testify against Richard..

You have no idea how pissed I am :mad: and I think everybody should be ..human rights.. my ass..only when it is convinient.. its money and power that makes the world go round

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I love my country and all the opportunity and freedoms we have, but this case is disturbing.

Lawmakers (that would be Congress) are more worried about what baseball player juiced than the were/are about the 2 wars we have been in, and the greatest recession since the Great Depression.

This case is despicable since our government basically killed this man.

I am usually not litigious, but I hope his wife and daughter sue the pants off the responsible parties.

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