February 12, 2019
IT'S A RICO CASE:
DOJ Indicts Dozens of White Supremacists Accused of Violence and Drug Dealing on RICO Charges (Colin Kalmbacher, February 12th, 2019, Law & Crime)
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), 54 adherents of the New Aryan Empire (NAE) were charged with participation in a racketeering enterprise that plotted and engaged in attempted murder, solicitation of murder, kidnapping, maiming and conspiracy in service of "a wide-ranging drug-trafficking operation" which sought to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine."[L]aw enforcement officials investigated the NAE's methamphetamine trafficking organization," the press release noes. "During the coordinated federal and state investigation, law enforcement agents made 59 controlled purchases of methamphetamine, seizing more than 25 pounds of methamphetamine, as well as 69 firearms and more than $70,000 in drug proceeds."Law enforcement nicknamed their operation "To The Dirt," a sardonic reference to that NAE slogan which itself references the gang's overarching rule that members who join up are saddled with their gang affiliation for life.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 12, 2019 7:02 PM