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by  Charlie LeDuff (Photo: Rebecca Cook) It was the social event of the season, Detroit's version of the Hamptons polo party. The second marriage of disgraced former mayor and ex-con Kwame Kilpatrick.  It was a ticket every self-respecting fast man would kill for -- a wedding at the Historic Little Rock Baptist Church and a reception at the Hotel St. Regis on West Grand Boulevard. There was Kilpatrick's contractor pal Bobby Ferguson, recently freed from prison, chatting last weekend near the crudites. And there stood the erstwhile teenage cocaine drug dealer ...

EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Curry on Giving White Boy Rick His Name (Flashback) VladTV 407 views   •  comments In this VladTV flashback, former Detroit kingpin Johnny Curry recounted giving Richard Wershe Jr. his street name, "White Boy Rick." Curry talked about how he met White Boy Rick through his father who'd sell guns to Curry's crew. However, Curry pointed out that he never worked directly with White Boy Rick.

Rick Wershe was an FBI informant at 14. Now he’s suing feds, Detroit police for child abuse View Comments On the one-year anniversary of his release from prison after 32 years, Richard Wershe Jr. filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing former FBI agents, ex-Detroit police officers and former federal prosecutors of child abuse in connection with his time as an informant when he was a teen. "I want this chapter in my life closed," said Wershe, a former FBI and Detroit police informant known as "White Boy Rick," as he was surrounded by his mother Darlene and other family members Tuesday. Wershe, 52...

Updated: July 20, 2021 04:40 PM Created: July 20, 2021 11:52 AM DETROIT (AP) - A Detroit-area man whose decades in prison for drug dealing and work as an informant inspired the movie "White Boy Rick" filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking $100 million, claiming he was coerced into assisting police while just a helpless teenager. Richard Wershe Jr., 52, served roughly 30 years in prison in Michigan before his release in 2017, followed by a few more years in a Florida prison for an unrelated crime. Wershe's lawsuit in federal court in Detroit alleges that his troubles in the 1980s...

by  Allan Lengel (Photo: Michael Lucido) Update, 7 p.m. Tuesday: Richard Wershe Jr. is suing former FBI agents, Detroit cops and federal prosecutors for allegedly using him illegally as an underage informant in the 1980s, and reneging on any deals to get him released from prison after his cooperation put drug dealers and bad cops behind bars. Wershe, 52,  announced the suit Tuesday at a news conference in downtown Detroit a year after his release from prison. He also fielded questions about adjusting to the outside world after serving more than 32 years for c...