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The money made from cocaine in the 80s and early 90s was unbelievable. Refining a kilo of coke cost about $1,000 and about $4000 to smuggle into Miami. But the street value of a kilo in the Magic City was anywhere between $50 to $70,000. That's as astonishing 1000% profit margin. Murphy and Peña say they were bringing in five to seven shipments a day of 500 kilos each. So yea the money was stacking up so high that they had to find creative ways of getting it back to Escobar or Cali when they decided to swoop in and take the business right underneath his nose.