đ„đšDEVELOPING: CEO of Jay-Z Roc Nation Desiree Perez was arrested in 1994 for possession of 35 kilos of cocaine with intent to distribute and again in 1998 for grand larceny and possession of a firearm which led to her becoming the feds âstar mole.â
The club manager, with close ties to Beyonce and Jay Z, has a âlot of powerâ inside rap mogulâs Roc Nation Sports which he husband Juan Perez (OG Juan) is now president of, she is a legitimate federal informant.
She and co-defendant Amaury Lopez faced at least 10 years in prison (Lopez was supposedly one of at least three men to marry Perez since the late 1980s). But Perez cooperated; in return for telling the DEA everything and âputting herself at substantial risk,â as one prosecutor put it she was sentenced to 30 months in a military-style boot camp program in 1995.
Many of the records in Perezâs case were sealed soon after her arrest. But one transcript from a June 11, 1996, court hearing obtained by The News shows the feds were pleased with their âstar mole.â
âThe defendant has really worked closely with these agents,â assistant U.S. Attorney Laurence Bardfeld told a judge that day, arguing to keep Perez out of jail.
Miami-based defense attorney Alan Ross told the judge that his client âwore a wire on no less than the four or five occasions when sheâs been down there in Puerto Rico.
âAnd I think the court knows from its experience that you just canât do anything more dangerous than wear a wire and go into an undercover meeting in Puerto Rico with a known violator, one whose (sic) suspected of or being investigated for a murder case down there.â
The transcript describes how a mutual âregard and respectâ developed between Perez and the DEA special agents she worked with to bust Colombians moving cocaine shipments of 50 to 100 kilograms.
In 2015, Dame Dash said he needed to have a âone-on-oneâ with Jay Z about the matter. Dash said the feds had been after him âfor yearsâ and had arrested some of his colleagues, including Kareem âBiggsâ Burke, who founded Roc-A-Fella with Dash and Jay Z in 1995. In 2012, Biggs was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to distribute more than 100 kilos of marijuana.
If any other rapper was surrounded by someone with these allegations they would lose their career and possibly their life but Jay-Z has been able to do anything because he existed in a world that ran on favoritism, a world that has cease to exist.