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Leonard Greene

‘The Wire’ creator David Simon pens leniency letter for dealer whose crew sold fatal drugs to actor Michael K. Williams

NEW YORK — “A man gotta have a code.”

Those were the infamous words of Omar Little, “The Wire” strongman created by writer and producer David Simon and brought to life by actor Michael K. Williams, who died from a fentanyl overdose in 2021.

Simon, who created the popular HBO series about Baltimore’s drug war, got his writing juices flowing again, this time in a leniency plea to a judge sentencing an accused dealer charged with selling the deadly drugs to Williams.

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