The Tampa Bay Rays were purchased by former partners in Spear Leeds and Kellogg with the proceeds of fixing prices in Exchange Traded Funds, options, equities, and laundering drug money for the White, Millionaire, drug smugglers of Wall Street, such as Edwin Crooks, Louis Miceli, Robert VanCaneghan, members of the Board of the American Stock Exchange. "Morgenthau's Hypocrisy On Drug War," published in the physical edition of The Black Star News on 20 September 2009. Harvey Silverman, the Managing Director of Spear Leeds and Kellogg, was on the Board of the American Stock Exchange. Silverman knew about the money laundering and drug smuggling. Hi, Harvey! Robert Morgenthau and Arthur Levitt permitted these crimes.