Note, also, that Pinckney never claimed the cabbage car story was true ........ but that it is folklore. Read........ embellishment. Folklore is always handy for that when the facts are just too boring. And there's no shortage of it down in the lowcountry where Pinckney lives.
SRH
Truth can be stranger than fiction, especially in the lowcountry:
On the western edge of the lowcountry lies the town of Jesup, Georgia. It spawned Roscoe Dean one of the most controversial politicians the state of Georgia ever endured, a character whose career could have been the template for Boss Hogg. Roscoe ran for governor and his “secret” masterplan for raising campaign funds centered around opening the coast of Georgia to drug smugglers. Roscoe was no master criminal or Walter White. When the Feds found out about his crooked scheme, a GBI agent posed as the representative of the marijuana cartels. At this time, smugglers utilized local shrimpers to off load tons of bales of marijuana in remote parts of the coast. The transfers of the weed to the shrimp boats was in international waters from mother ships. In order to show the “good faith” of the cartel, the agent showed Roscoe the good faith bribe money of $125,000.00. In reality, it was only $25,000, but the agent would go into the next room and bring out the $25,000 five times in different bags. As I said, Roscoe was no master criminal. At the motel meeting, Roscoe brought in an electronic bug detector in a brief case. As the room where transactions took place was audio and video “bugged”, the agent calmly took the detector from Roscoe’s hands, and told him it needed to be turned “on” before it could work, and the agent promptly turned it off. Winding back to the Silasse thread and visitors from Africa to the U.S. : During the campaign, Rosoce visited home and brought with him an Atlanta prostitute. He had instructed her not to say a word when introduced to friends and family. He introduced her as an “Egyptian Princess” who couldn’t speak a word of English. Roscoe ended up serving time in a Federal minimum security prison and only recently passed away. A friend who prosecuted Roscoe Dean told me highlights of the evidence and named his dog after Dean. My late Aussie was named Roscoe by a former owner. There were other hilarious incidents recorded, but not used as evidence, including hanky panky in a restaurant booth between the "Egyptian Princess" and Roscoe.
http://www.myajc.com/news/state--regiona...H20mgikdLRFVYM/
