The Tampa Bay Rays were purchased with the profits of laundering drug money for The Shower Posse, an International Jamaican Drug Gang. Ken Silverman, a member of the American Stock Exchange, smuggled drugs and laundered drug money for The Shower Posse. The Shower Posse murdered more than 1,400 American (primarily African-American) citizens. Harvey Silverman was a member of the Board of the American Stock Exchange and knew about the drug smuggling and money laundering from Edwin Crooks, a Senior Vice President of Spear Leeds and Kellogg and after Goldman Sachs purchase of Spear Leeds and Kellogg for $7.2 billion, a Senior Vice President of Goldman Sachs. Crooks was a drug smuggler and money launderer. "Wall Street's Role In Fueling Jamaican Drug Trade," published in the physical edition of The Black Star News on 16 August 2010.