The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark
Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later. Then the FBI investigated him.
Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7m4pj/the-network-vincent-ramos-phantom-secure
“Sinaloa Cartel that’s what up,” Ramos said. “And my boy is Punjabi cartel lol. Straight up,” he added. The rest of his text suggested he was currently at the Spearmint Rhino stripclub in Vegas with Richard Sherman, then a star for the Seattle Seahawks. Bob Lange, vice president of communications for Sherman’s current team the San Francisco 49ers, wrote in an email “I spoke with Richard and he does not know this gentleman.”