Akbar Pray

Biography

Akbar Pray (born Wayne B. Pray on March 22, 1948) is an American writer, columnist and convicted drug kingpin from Newark, New Jersey who was serving a life sentence in federal prison, imposed in 1990, before obtaining a "compassionate release" on September 30, 2024. Pray headed operations that distributed millions of dollars' worth of cocaine and marijuana into Essex County, New Jersey from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. The Pray organization called itself The Family, and consisted of more than 300 active members.

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