NobleDrewAli
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Nikkas think all that gangsta shyt cool til it get real like this.
It’s a wrap for breh.
It’s a wrap for breh.
YFN Lucci named in RICO indictment
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revan
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Are the scouts in question also a violent criminal enterprise as the indictment alleges?
Peter Parker
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Well the real reason why RICO cases work so well is because so many of the lower level guys hit with those kind of numbers immediately turn states evidence and implicate people as members of those organizations/provide proof of their membership, it's an impossible thing to beat.
In order to beat it you basically have to prove that you're not a member which with fingers pointing at you and the way the feds gather evidence it's impossible. RICO for sure is dirty pool but the mob was playing dirty and winning/thumbing their nose at Uncle Sam and you can't go up against Uncle Sam so many times and keep winning, it's impossible they'll just change the rules to the game
I’m asking a rhetorical question. I’m not defending this as a way to let clear criminals off the hook but it’s just weird In the conventional sense. The feds basically have you dead to rights when they bring it out but it’s a fundamentally flawed prosecutorial tool IMO and gets really vague when you’re first introduced to it. The civil prosecution side of it is even sketchier cause the Feds lose often on that side.
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
$cam-U-Well_Jack$on
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Right. All it takes is someone saying that you're into sum'n, affiliated w/any organization or had your hands in various acts of criminality and without it being true or there being any direct proof of da validity of da claims, you can get slapped with conspiracy. Even by merely having knowledge and no direct involvement in illegal activity.
revan
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What do you mean?
RICO is a tool and like most tools it's up to the people using it to determine/demonstrate it's value.
For what it's worth I've seen it used mostly as it is intended.
Thing is theres been an effort to reform the law for decades cause its so broad.
But it just so happens by the time ti gets to that point people just kinda roll with it.
Devil Plisken…CMS
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staticshock
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He probably never outright claimed it but the neighborhood he’s from in Atlanta has a big blood set affiliated with SMM
Street gangs are criminal enterprises, which means they’re fair game for Rico charges.
You don’t have to wear suits to be a organized crime in the eyes of the state
You don’t have to wear suits to be a organized crime in the eyes of the state
livindajetlife
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Yeah I feel that I’m just saying for a nikka to be that deep in it and not rap about it he obviously wasn’t on no dumb shyt like a lot of other nikkas
Rapper YFN Lucci among a dozen charged in RICO indictment
KATE BRUMBACK
Tue, May 4, 2021, 10:30 PM·2 min read
FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2019, file photo, rapper YFN Lucci, whose real name is Rayshawn Bennett, attends the world premiere of the final season of Starz TV's "Power" in New York. Rapper YFN Lucci is among a dozen people charged in a wide-ranging indictment in Atlanta targeting alleged members of the Bloods gang. A Fulton County grand jury on Friday, April 30, 2021, handed up the 105-count indictment that resulted from a six-month investigation. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper YFN Lucci is among a dozen people charged in a wide-ranging indictment in Atlanta targeting alleged members of the Bloods gang.
A Fulton County grand jury on Friday handed up the 105-count indictment that resulted from a six-month investigation, Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton said at a news conference Tuesday. It includes racketeering, aggravated assault, murder, gun, armed robbery, property damage, theft and gang-related charges.
“We are serious about the violence in Atlanta," Hampton said. “We are serious about holding people accountable.”
The indictment alleges that each of the 12 people charged is associated with sub-groups of the national Bloods gang. It says they had connections and relationships to each other and accuses them of committing a wide variety of crimes to protect and enhance the gang’s reputation and to gain and maintain control of territory.
YFN Lucci, whose given name is Rayshawn Bennett, is charged with racketeering, violating the state’s anti-gang law, felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Atlanta police previously announced murder charges against Bennett in January, saying he was the driver in a December gang-related drive-by shooting that left one man dead. The felony murder charge in last week’s indictment is based on that incident.
“He’s not guilty of any crime that’s referenced in the previous charge and now in this indictment,” Bennett's lawyer Drew Findling said in a phone interview.
The indictment says one of the Atlanta gang sub-groups of the Bloods, known by the initials YFN, was “centered around” Bennett.
“The YFN studio located on West Peachtree Street in Atlanta is a central point for the group and a notorious stronghold. YFN has continued to attract additional associates as Bennett gained notoriety,” the indictment says.
“He’s absolutely not a gang member, and this indictment — neglectfully or purposely — fails to say that Mr. Bennett is a nationally and internationally recognized musical artist," Findling said.
Among Bennett's biggest hits is the 2016 song “Key to the Streets” featuring the Atlanta rap group Migos.
The indictment also cites social media postings by Bennett and others, as well as song lyrics, alleging they are proof of gang involvement and other criminal activity.
“To sit and analyze somebody’s social media account and to try to somehow find some evidence of a crime is ridiculous when people are just really expressing themselves through social media,” Findling said.