It's the Italian word for "code of silence." And it's tattooed on the back of Kentucky's most notorious marijuana-growing ringleader. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox ...

Johnny Boone, the leader of one of the largest domestic marijuana organizations dubbed the "Cornbread Mafia," pleaded guilty in Federal Court Tuesday. The 74-year-old Marion County farmer was ...

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 from central ... of Grass,” Boone was a leader of what was dubbed the “Cornbread Mafia,” which federal prosecutors in 1989 called “the largest domestic ...

but Johnny Boone has never been charged with that directly," former Courier-Journal and New York Times reporter James Higdon said. "He's never been charged with a violent crime. " Higdon's 2013 book, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE KENTUCKY MAN, KNOWN AS THE GODFATHER OF GRASS HAS DIED. JOHNNY BOONE LED THE INFAMOUS CORNBREAD MAFIA AND WAS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS BACK IN 2018 FOR MARIJUANA MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION.