Tonesa “Toni” Welch thought she was “untouchable” before being sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for money laundering.
Toni became known as “the first lady” of the Black Mafia Family (BMF) because she was the longtime girlfriend of Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, who co-founded the drug trafficking and money laundering organization.
Toni spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife about the “glamorous life” she lived leading up to her 2005 arrest which resulted from her helping Terry launder his drug money. “You get cocky and you just think that you’re living life, you know?
I really thought that we were untouchable and you have those doubts sometimes and then it bypasses your head right away, like, ‘Okay, we got this, we’re bad,'”
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