Ex-Kansas City crime boss, jailhouse lawyer released early from federal prison Bill Lukitsch, The Kansas City Star
Jul. 2 Update: The story of Eddie Cox and the Black Mafia was covered in Kansas City news stories of the time. Read more about their rise and fall in the underworld here.
Eddie David Cox, an ex-Kansas City crime ring leader whose organization was briefly considered the top supplier of drugs and violence on the East Side, has been released early from prison on an order of compassionate release.
In mid-June, a federal judge granted a request seeking Cox s early release on a life sentence. Cox, 86, walked out a free man Thursday after spending the past 32 years behind bars, according to a legal representative who also did time with Cox in Leavenworth.
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