and one kilogram of cocaine. Best testified that Blount went on such buying trips every two weeks in 1996-1997 and that she often accompanied him. On those trips, they would acquire one-kilogram quantities of cocaine.

Fluitt, Lee, and Troy Streater sold cocaine on the street for Streater. As discussed in Part II.D.1. below, they would be given bundles of cocaine packages to sell; on busy days, Streater or Blount would come along and replenish their supplies. Troy Streater described street sales approaching or exceeding an average of a half-kilogram of cocaine per week.

The government also presented evidence that Streater maintained discipline among his workers and control for his organization in the Newhall/Lilac area through physical violence, threats, and intimidation. Fluitt, for example, testified that he was beaten by Streateror Blount on a number of occasions, sometimes for “messing up the money” and sometimes for refusing to sell cocaine. (Trial Transcript, November 17, 1999 (“Nov. 17 Tr.”), at 194, 199, 214-15; Trial Transcript, November 18, 1999 (“Nov. 18 Tr.”), at 30).

Bivens testified that he had sold cocaine for Streater in the late 1980s and had gone to prison as a result. After being released in early 1991, he and Streater had a falling-out over Streater's failure to provide Bivens's mother with money during Bivens's incarceration. Some two months later, Bivens began attempting to sell cocaine on his own in the Newhall/Lilac area. Shortly after he began, Streater appeared and warned him to “get off the corner.” (Trial Transcript, November 16, 1999 (“Nov. 16 Tr.”), at 98.) Two