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Pablo Escobar's partner ran his own island in the Bahamas. After 33 years in prison, he was asked how much money he walked out with: "Zero." In the video below, he tells DJ Vlad what he owns today, down to his watch. His name is Carlos Lehder. In the late 1970s he and Escobar built the Medellín Cartel, and Lehder found what made it rich: an island. He took over Norman's Cay, stretched its runway to 3,300 feet and guarded it with Dobermans. Planes landed there full of cocaine bound for America. He reportedly kept one kilo out of every four. But money like that doesn't stay hidden. After raids in the Bahamas, his bank accounts were frozen. In 1987 police found him on a farm in Colombia. Escobar's own hitman later claimed Escobar gave him up. A US judge gave him life without parole plus 135 years. So he testified against Panama's dictator, Manuel Noriega, and his sentence dropped to 55 years. He served 33 of them, 16 as a prison cook. When he walked out in June 2020, at 70, he had never held a cell phone. "Did you have money when you got out of prison after 33 years?" "Zero." In prison he owned one thing, a Chinese watch. His clothes, his shoes, "everything was owned by the American government." Today he rents a house and lives off his book. Everyone remembers the cartel bosses who died young. Lehder is what happens to the one who lived. So is zero the fair ending for the man who flooded America with cocaine, or did 33 years in a cell already pay for all of it?