John Robert "Johnny" Boone, known as the Godfather of Grass for his role as the leader of the Cornbread Mafia, one of the nation’s largest domestic-producing marijuana syndicates, died Friday in ...

A Kentucky man known as the "Godfather of Grass" has died.Johnny Boone led the marijuana syndicate called the Cornbread Mafia.He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2018 for marijuana ...

It's the Italian word for "code of silence." And it's tattooed on the back of Kentucky's most notorious marijuana-growing ringleader. But while secrets around the Cornbread Mafia will forever be ...

In Kentucky, Cornbread Mafia leader Johnny Boone faces prison. Then-U.S. Attorney Joe Whittle said in 1989 that 182 tons of marijuana had been seized at 29 sites, including 25 farms outside Kentucky.

John Robert “Johnny” Boone, who once ran a multi-state marijuana-growing operation known as the Cornbread Mafia, has died at age 80. Boone died Friday night, Joe Keith Bickett wrote in a ...

Johnny Boone, the marijuana outlaw ... Known as the “Godfather of Grass,” Boone was a leader of what was dubbed the “Cornbread Mafia,” which federal prosecutors in 1989 called “the ...

FILE -- This undated composite photo shows Johnny Boone, the leader of Kentucky's so-called 'Cornbread Mafia' before his death in an assisted living facility on June 14, 2024.

One of George's former 'Cornbread' clients, Joe Keith Bickett, is now his law clerk. Bickett has published his own memoir, "The Origins of the Cornbread Mafia", recalling examples of derring-do that ...

LEBANON, Ky. (WAVE) - Johnny Boone, the man known as the ‘Godfather of Grass’ and as the leader of the marijuana syndicate called the Cornbread Mafia, has died. According to a Facebook post by the ...

NELSON COUNTY, Ky. — John Robert “Johnny” Boone, sometimes referred to as the “Godfather of Grass,” died last week at 80. Boone – a former leader of Kentucky’s “Cornbread Mafia ...

John Robert "Johnny" Boone, known as the Godfather of Grass for his role as the leader of the Cornbread Mafia, one of the nation’s largest domestic-producing marijuana syndicates, died Friday in ...

It's the Italian word for "code of silence." And it's tattooed on the back of Kentucky's most notorious marijuana-growing ringleader. But while secrets around the Cornbread Mafia will forever be ...