January 17, 2008
Fulfilled Expectations Department
American Gangsters
Some former DEA agents are annoyed by the movie American Gangster:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three former Drug Enforcement Administration agents filed a $55 million defamation lawsuit against the movie studio that made "American Gangster" on Wednesday, claiming it tarnished hundreds of reputations.
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The movie hurt the agents' reputations by falsely claiming in text at the end that a collaboration between Lucas and Roberts "led to the convictions of three-quarters of New York City's Drug Enforcement Agency" agents between 1973 and 1985, according to the suit, which seeks class action status.
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The lawsuit said the public believed the film's text referred to federal DEA agents, not police officers, and regardless, no New York police officers were convicted as a result of Lucas' cooperation.
The DEA agents' demands are about what you'd expect from drug warriors who confiscate people's cars when they find drug residue in the ash tray:
The suit seeks to stop the film's distribution or change the text at the end of the film and turn over all of its profits to a fund for federal DEA agents.
Once a legal gangster, always a legal gangster.
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