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inanna

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Sat Jun 8, 2019, 03:54 PM Jun 2019

Feds announce massive bust of Aryan Brotherhood crime ring in California's prisons

Jun 8, 2019, 12:13 PM ET

"Aryan Brotherhood members have recruited new members, indoctrinated new associates, and rapidly asserted their dominance over the white inmate population throughout California."


Federal prosecutors Thursday announced a massive operation targeting one of California's most notorious white nationalist prison gangs, unsealing numerous racketeering charges against 16 alleged members and associates of the so-called "Aryan Brotherhood."

In a 143-page criminal complaint, an undercover DEA agent maps out an extensive organized crime network alleged to have orchestrated assassinations, weapons smuggling operations and drug trafficking across multiple states.

At the center of the investigation are two of the three alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood's leadership commission, Ronald Yandell, 56, and Daniel Troxell, 66. When the investigation started, both were already serving life sentences in prison for murder.

The court document, however, chronicles in detail through intercepted calls, texts and the undercover agent’s own recollections after infiltrating the outer circle of the gang -- how Yandell was allegedly able to coordinate drug deals and oversee murder plots while still behind bars.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/feds-announce-massive-bust-aryan-brotherhood-crime-ring/story?id=63559060

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Feds announce massive bust of Aryan Brotherhood crime ring in California's prisons (Original Post) inanna Jun 2019 OP
How can they do that to Kaiserguy Jun 2019 #1
and to think all they needed to do was to write tRump a love letter & all would be forgiven, nt yaesu Jun 2019 #2
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