What Happened to Barry Seal’s Money? Which Planes Did Barry Seal Use?

Frigon’s attorney, Roy Maughan Jr., of Baton Rouge, said Barry Seal’s estate was still under administration and that Deborah Seal and her children acted independently of the estate. By entering into an agreement with Universal, he said, they essentially stole money that belonged to the estate.

Barry Seal, a former commercial airline pilot, was indicted in 1984 for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 460 pounds of cocaine with a street value of nearly $170 million. He also was charged with causing several financial institutions not to report some currency transactions.

Barry Seal was fined as part of his plea deal and ordered to serve time at a halfway house, where drug traffickers tied to the Medellin Cartel in Colombia arranged for his slaying, prosecutors said.

At his peak, Seal earned as much as $500,000 per flight transporting shipments of cocaine from Colombia to the United States.