He rose to prominence in the 1980s, spending lavishly and befriending athletes, as the city was wracked by murders tied to the drug trade. He later became an informant. By Isabella Kwai Rayful Edmond, ...

Rayful Edmond, a drug kingpin who stoked a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s and later cooperated with prosecutors to bring down cocaine traffickers years after he was sentenced ...