@casanova2x Will DIE in Prison Unless THIS Happens...Former Fed Breaks down his RICO Case!
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We got a great episode for you guys tonight.
I'm going to break down the Casanova case and I'm going to walk you guys through everything.
This case has a lot of moving parts, guys.
And this is probably going to be the most extensive and how do I say this?
Thorough breakdown of this case.
And I'm going to give you guys the investigator's perspective on it because I've seen a bunch of breakdowns on it, but they didn't really give you guys like it's a lot of lawyers or like fans or whatever, which you know, some of them have some fantastic breakdowns.
But I'm going to give you guys a little bit more of a law enforcement's perspective on this because I used to do cases like this, guys.
So, all right.
So, real quick, intro and announcements.
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I'm still waiting on one piece of information.
He had his arraignment last week, January 4th, which is why I was delaying the show because I want to make sure I have all my ducks in a row before I break down his case.
I saw a lot of people break down his case, and how do I say this?
They're jumping the gun a little bit.
They're bringing out information that's like rumors and all this other stuff.
So I want to make sure I have all my facts straight.
You know what I mean?
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But the thing, like I said, is I want to make sure I have everything.
So at the arraignment that he just had, I'm waiting for that stuff to upload.
And I have someone helping me out to get docs.
So when those docs come out, I'm definitely going to, you know, break it down with y'all and give you guys all the game.
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But this one is fairly extensive.
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But, you know, I want to make sure I give you all this sauce.
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So without further ado, I've gotten a lot of requests for this case.
You guys have been asking me to break down this case for a long time, Casanova.
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Okay.
You guys have been asking me to break this case down for a while.
And, you know, obviously it's a high-profile case.
And, you know, but we're also going to break down because there's so many different elements here.
There's Casanova.
There's a gang.
There's racketeering.
There's the FBI.
There's his co-defendants.
There's wiretaps.
There's informants involved.
There's so many different things involved on this case, guys.
Um, but I got y'all.
So, let's start first and introduce you guys to who is Casanova.
All right, so let's go over a quick little uh thing here.
So, this is Casanova, guys.
All right, um, Caswell Sr., right?
And I'm gonna refer to him as Cas or Senior during the duration of this show.
But, um, Caswell Sr., aka Casanova, uh, as an American rapper in 2016, Casanova made his first original song, Don't Run.
He assigned to Rock Nation, which is owned by Jay-Z.
Um, in 2020, he was indicted on Rico charges alongside 17 other people due to various criminal activities, which his Bloods Gang, Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation, allegedly participated in.
Okay, um, and he was born and raised in Brooklyn, guys.
He actually is of Panamanian Haitian descent, and his mom, I don't know if you guys noticed, his mom actually was pretty successful.
She had money, he had like one of the biggest houses in Brooklyn.
Uh, so you know, it's not like he was you know coming up from the gutter and not really you know aware of what it was like to live a better life.
Um, his mom did do a very good job at providing for him, and as a matter of fact, in interviews, he's been on several interviews.
You guys probably might now that you guys saw his picture, you guys might recognize him.
He's been on Vlad, he's been on uh, what's the other one he was on?
A breakfast club, etc.
Nick Cannon's joint.
And he talks about how uh, he did um, he did a significant amount of time around seven years or so for burglary.
He got convicted of burglary twice, guys.
Um, he was robbing uh checks cash locations, um, and he actually like broke it down how he used to do it.
Like, he'd run in there with a shotgun, right?
And his boy would be in there with him, and he'd be like, Yo, give me the money, and then his boy would be like, No, just shoot him, just shoot him.
And then, you know, obviously, that's gonna have the clerk going, oh God, and then you know, he's like, No, no, I'm gonna go shoot him, they're just gonna give me the money.
And they ended up, you know, they would give him the money and he'd run out of there.
And one time, he stole about uh 7,500 bucks out of a check's cash spot, right?
And he steals the money, and he didn't really have a mask on.
And he ran to like an apartment where his girl was at with his boy, uh, and he had all the money.
And so, the cops like found out who it was, you know, and they started following him.
And they knocked on the door, and uh, they knocked on the door, and he was there with his girl.
She opened it up, and then they came in and they arrested him.
He ended up doing like six or seven years for that.
He took a plea deal and uh, you know, and ended up doing the time.
But while he was in prison, guys, he was uh cutting people, you know what I'm saying?
He got in a lot of fights, he was putting a hole for a lot of time.
He actually ended up doing another year in prison for basically for not behaving well, you know what I'm saying?
Like getting in fights, slashing people, giving people something called the buck fifty, which is a um, which is when you cut someone in the face to their lip in New York.
Uh, very that's the slang term for it, and and the prison system in New York City, uh, giving someone a buck fifty.
So he was doing all that, and I think he only got caught twice for getting uh for slicing someone, but he did it like six or seven times.
And he admitted to all this, guys, in public interviews, and we're going to talk about why this is important down the road, okay?
But that's a quick little overview of who he is from a um, you know, a personal standpoint, right?
So, so so, Casanova is a member of a gang, guys, called the Untouchable Guerrilla Stone Nation, which is a set of the bloods, okay?
And um, what we're gonna do is we're gonna go through.
So, I'm gonna break down who Casanova is, right?
Then I'm gonna break down the gang he's associated with.
I'm gonna break down the bloods and then break down the Gorilla Stone Nation because see how we're like working our way back.
Then we're gonna talk about uh Rico, then we're gonna talk about the actual charges and everything else like that.
So, this all makes sense.
Then we're gonna look at the indictment as well.
So, uh, first, let's break down who and quick before I get into this.
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We got um, I'll read some of these chats real quick, and then we're gonna get into the blood gang, guys.
So, grab yourself a drink, and we're gonna go down memory lane on this one with the history.
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Okay, so let's go over what the Gorilla Stone Nation is, okay?
So, but for you to understand what the Gorilla Stone Nation is, we're going to have to talk about the gangs, the United Blood Nation first, okay?
So, the UBN, United Blood Nation, also known as the East Coast Bloods, is a street and prison gang actively primarily in the New York metropolitan area.
The UBN is the easiest, is the East Coast faction of the California-based Blood Street Gang.
Their main source of income is the trafficking and sale of illegal drugs.
And I'm going to give you guys a quick little summary here.
But the history here of the UBN was formed on Rikers Island on July 16, 1993, when incarcerated leader Omar OG Mac Porty and Leonard OG Dedai McKenzie formed an alliance between several gangs, including the Nine Trade Gangsters, GKB, and Bloodstone villains, in order to protect members from the dominant Netas and Latin Kings.
The UBN was established as the New York branch of the California-based Bloods, which its members are loosely affiliated with.
And the gang spread along the East Coast as members were released from prison.
So let's talk a little bit more about OG Mac here, okay?
So we're going all into the lore now, okay?
So as y'all know, the Bloods are a famous criminal organization that started out in Los Angeles, right?
Minimize this real quick.
That started out in Los Angeles.
And it was originally designed, right, in the 60s or 70s to overcome the adversity that African Americans were experiencing in the United States.
It was like guys from the neighborhood sticking together, protecting each other, taking care of their communities, whatever.
But obviously, it evolved into that, into a criminal organization where they start selling dope, racketeering, extortion, violence, carjackings, anything that's going to make it.
It went from something positive to something that was negative to make money and generate money for the organization through illicit activities.
So OG Mac is actually from New York.
So OG living with his aunt and the Bronx, and he starts repping the blood stuff, right?
And he goes back and forth between his aunt and his family in California.
And he's slowly bringing the West Coast gang lifestyle to the East Coast.
And he gets locked up.
And for some of you guys that don't know, Rikers Island is an island, guys, where it has a prison.
It's right outside New York City.
You have to basically, you know, it's surrounded by water.
There's fences, you know, fences everywhere.
And it's a very tough jail, man.
They've been talking about closing Rikers down since I was a kid.
And in the prison system, guys, it's very racist.
And what I mean by that in the prison system, and this is how you guys are going to be able to understand everything.
So in the prison system, you stick with your color.
Okay.
The Latinos stick with the Latinos.
The whites stick with the whites.
The blacks stick with the blacks.
And back then, in the 90s, okay, the blacks were all disorganized.
They didn't have any real criminal gangs.
Like if you were from Brooklyn, you had your little set.
If you were from Bronx, you had your little gang, whatever it is.
But the Latinos were actually together, okay?
Especially the Latin Kings.
They were running the prison system in New York in the 90s.
So to be able to fight back, the black gangs, okay, formed the Bloods, which was led by OG Mac in the prison system.
And then it leaked its way out into the real world or into the free world, as they call it, okay?
But he was responsible for making the bringing the Bloods over to the East Coast, which is why OG Mac is important in this case, right?
So he brings the Bloods over in the prison system as a way to protect them from the Latin Kings.
And we'll do it.
Don't worry, guys, I'll do a show on gangs in general.
Because I actually did a very big Latin King case myself, so I'm very familiar with them as well.
And they're extremely organized.
So I'm not surprised that they had to, you know, formulate these gangs to be able to combat the Latino gangs in prison because the Latin Kings also have a very organized structure with Incas and forces and all that stuff.
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So you got the United Blood Nation, right?
Which was formed by OG Mac.
There were two main big sets from the UBN out of New York, okay, guys, which every other blood gang in New York City would kind of come from and splinter from.
There was the Gorilla Stone Nation, Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation, and then there was the Brims, okay?
Whoop Dee, you heard that before, right?
Okay.
So the Gorilla Stones and the Brims started fighting.
They had some issues with each other.
So they split it off and made their own sets.
And guys, a set is basically a set is basically like a group of guys that claim like one area.
They're still bloods, but they have their own set.
So they have a like, think of it as an organization within an established organization.
Okay.
They're still wearing the red rags.
They're still following the rules, et cetera.
And they're still collecting dues and all that other stuff.
But they're a set within the bloods.
So those two big factions splintered off.
All right.
That's where Whoopty comes from.
Whoopty is a brim term, gentlemen, which we'll talk about that on another show.
I could talk about the Brims because they've also gotten big indictments on them.
And here I got my little notes here that I'm looking at.
Okay.
So that's how most of the bloods that you see now in New York City started.
Started on Rikers Island.
OG Mac, and he created the United Blood Nation from the United Blood Nation.
The two big factions, Untouchable Gorilla Stones and the Brims, were formed and then splintered off and did their own thing.
Now, I also want to say here that, let's see here.
There was one other thing I was going to say.
Okay.
So now that we know who the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation is, right?
They're a gang.
They're a set within the Bloods organization.
Now we're going to talk about their leader, okay?
Which this is very important because you guys are going to see why.
So let me share a screen with you.
And before I go ahead and bring this up, let me make sure I'm not missing anything.
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Okay, guys.
So let's talk about the leader of the Guerrilla Stone Nation.
Okay.
And this is going to be pretty important stuff because then it's going to all make sense.
So let me share screen with y'all real fast.
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So this picture right here, okay, y'all can see.
And we're not going to play the video, but this is Casanova with a guy named Dick Wolf, okay, aka Dwight Reed, okay?
Dwight Reed is the leader of the Guerrilla Stone Nation blood set in New York City.
Okay.
He's originally from Harlem, and we're going to talk about him real quick, too.
But as you guys can see, here's a picture of the two.
So hold on.
Let me pull up his picture for y'all real fast.
And we're going to talk about this guy because this is also important.
So everything makes sense.
So here he is right here, guys, on the right.
Okay, this is Dick Wolf here, as you guys can see.
And also, I want to let y'all know that the original blood, OG Mac, is doing like a bunch of, I think he got convicted.
He got convicted of a bunch of racketeering charges.
The FBI didn't, just to give you a quick little summary on OG Mac, what happened with him.
FBI picked him up and started investigating him in the late 90s, early 2000s.
They arrested him, I think, in 2001.
9-11 happened, so the case got pushed back, and then they ended up bringing him.
He went to trial and he lost and he's in prison right now.
He's going to do the rest of his life in prison.
He got hit with everything from like murder and conspiracy to racketeering, extortion, drug trafficking, all that stuff, possession of firearms.
He got hit with all that stuff.
And he's in prison right now in Florence, Colorado, which is the most high-security federal prison in the United States.
So yeah, this is our boy right here, Dick Wolf.
Well, this thing's taking forever.
But yeah, that's him, as you guys can see.
Now, you guys are probably wondering, well, who the hell is this guy, a.k.a.
Dwight Reed?
Okay.
So this guy is, like I said, the leader of the Gorilla Stone Nation.
And he actually is in prison right now.
He got sentenced to 50 years for killing a guy.
And I'm going to show you guys this as well.
And of all things, he killed her.
Sorry, he's going to prison or he's in prison for a scuffle in Harlem for shooting a guy over a woman, which is a whole.
So let's go through this real quick.
New York Post.
An alleged gunman who cops believed the city's first killer to be hopped up on the club drug Molly was busted in Pennsylvania after chasing, crashing into a police car.
Sources told the post on Friday.
Dwight Reid 42 allegedly shot Calverin Wallace 33 in the head at point-blank rage in PJ's bar in Harlem on January 8th and then disappeared.
But he resurfaced in May when cops came in Harrisburg, pulled him over and noticed he had appeared drunk.
Reed, who has done three stints in prison on burglary and robbery convictions, allegedly sped off and cops gave chase.
So minutes later, wait, sorry, Reed, who was, oh yeah, minutes later, he allegedly crashed into a police cruiser and was arrested after a short foot chase.
So yeah, a quick little background on this.
So guys, he's at a club or no, he's at PJ's, which is a very famous spot in Harlem.
You know, you hear Cameron and all of them talk about it.
And this dude is talking to a girl that he knows.
He goes up to the girl, hey, you know this dude?
What's your problem?
Blah, blah, blah.
And they get in a little argument.
And then the dude gets an argument with him.
So he's like, all right, I got you.
So Dwight leaves the location, comes back with a gun, points it right at his head, and basically does the whole the Denzel Washington joint blue magic.
Kills him.
All right, shoots him right square, you know, point blank right in the head in front of everybody, okay?
Kills him.
Then he goes on to run down to Pennsylvania.
He's drinking and driving, right?
DUIs and all that other stuff.
He's all over the place, swerving all over the road and shit.
They're like, what the hell?
Like, what's wrong with this dude, right?
And hold on, give me one sec, guys.
So, so he's swerving all over the road in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
They pick him up for DUI.
NYPD gets information that he's down there in Harrisburg.
And they hadn't put out that he was wanted for murder yet.
But they just found out.
I forget how they found out.
They were doing like some records checks.
So they find out that he's down there.
So NYPD detectives snap him up while he's in court proceedings down there in Pennsylvania because he was living down there for a few months now under a different alias, whatever it may be.
So they grab him and they bring him back to New York.
Charge him with murder.
He ends up getting convicted, gets like 50 years.
So he was in the jail system, okay, when all this crap popped off with the Gorilla Stone Nation.
So I want to make that very clear.
So the leader guys in summation, Dick Wolf, aka Dwight Reed, who the indictment is pretty much named against, right?
Because he was the top guy, Gorilla Stone Nation.
He was in prison because he had shot and killed a man back in 2014 over a dispute over a woman.
Okay?
And he was on Molly when he did it.
And he ends up getting caught as a fugitive later on in Pennsylvania.
All right.
But while he's in prison, he still is running the gang.
Now, I'm going to show you guys some stuff here before we get into the actual charges.
So we went over who Casanova is.
We went over who are the, what is the United Blood Nation?
And then from there, we splinted it off.
What are the untouchable Gorilla Stones?
All right.
Now, here, I'm going to show you guys some stuff that is pretty important for you guys to see because I'm going to show you guys from the Fed's perspective how they were probably looking at all this.
Okay.
So it's very clear.
You guys can see that.
Here's Casanova's song, Set Trip.
And this was one of his biggest hits.
This came out after Don't Run.
And I'm not going to play the music, obviously, because I'm going to get hit with a copyright immediately.
But as you guys can see, here he is.
You know, they got the ape mask on.
He's there with a bunch of affiliates.
You see red bandanas everywhere.
Right?
This is an esteemed panel of gentlemen, clearly.
Right?
And in the song, he's talking about, you know, punch you in your face, motherfucker.
I'm not going to cheat out.
You know what I'm saying?
All this stuff.
All right.
So, but you can clearly see from the video.
Here we go.
Gang signs, right?
This one is a very common one for bloods.
Bandanas.
This is ape sign right here to make an A, right?
AK, the Gorilla Stone.
So, I mean, bro, if I was a case agent on this shit, I'd be like, all right, clearly this guy is a member of the gang.
And if you listen to the lyrics, he's saying a bunch of, you know, gang-affiliated codes, you know, who brought you home, et cetera, which is, you know, a term for who initiated you in, et cetera.
You know, I'm G-checking these fucking clowns.
You know, what set you rep, all this other stuff, right?
So that's just one.
Now, actually, this song is tough, though.
I ain't going to lie.
But I'm, again, I'm putting on my federal agent hat real quick, okay?
I'm taking my music fan hat off and I'm putting on a federal agent hat for y'all, right?
So if I'm the agent, this is what I'm looking at, all right?
So let's look at another video.
Let's see here.
If you guys are enjoying these breakdowns, give me a goddamn fire emoji in the chat, all right, while I pull up this other video for y'all because I'm giving y'all the Fed perspective here as we watch these music videos.
Because I'll tell you this, they're definitely watching.
I'll tell you that.
So, here's another one here, okay?
Class Murder, Big Ape, okay?
This is the anthem for these guys, by the way, guys.
All right, this song's tough too.
I ain't gonna lie, but as you can see, they're here in Harlem shooting it.
Bunch of bloods in the background, right?
Bandanas everywhere, red rags, okay?
Got the 2X chain, which is Casanova's brand, okay?
And Cass is obviously in the song, too.
And you can see a bunch of gang members all in the background.
Because, yo, real talk, when you have bangers like this, right, where it's a gang song, you, I always, like, if I was on this case, I'll be looking at the background.
The people that are going to be closest to him are going to be obviously gang affiliated.
You see, you've got the girls with the bandanas.
You know, as an investigator, that's what I'm looking at.
I want to know everyone that's around him in the circle that's closest to him, you know, as an investigator.
So, this is him, right?
And then Cass comes on, right?
More gang.
Look at his chain, by the way.
Here, check that.
If you guys can see, what does that look like?
Oh, it's an ape, right?
He's smart.
He doesn't have a red rag with him, right?
Because obviously now he's getting money a little bit.
So, he's not trying to, you know, be all out there like that, right?
This is what, a couple years after set tripping.
There we go.
Gang handshake.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, this is obviously, you know, we watch the videos like this all the time.
Like, okay, who are these people?
That's how you're going to look at it, right?
So, anyway, this is a good song, too.
Anyway, so stop sharing.
Then, I'll show you guys some more stuff, right?
So, you got a picture of him with Dick Wolf in prison, right?
And then you got all these music videos, right, where it's clear that he's affiliated, right?
Let's look at some more stuff.
Here's another one with Fetty Luciano.
Fetty Luciano, guys, is part of the G-Stone Crips, aka.
This is GS9.
This is Bobby Schmarta's people.
All right.
Here's a song he did with Casanova, right?
Bloods and Crips, you know, unifying and making some music, which is, you know, great thing.
You can see they're doing the throwing up the A's, right?
And then him with his guys, Fetty Luciano, they're walking around with Crips.
Okay?
That's something that New York Crips do all the time.
They actually walk around with canes, guys, and crutches.
They're Cripping for real.
Right?
That's a New York Crip thing that they do.
Well, it looks like one guy actually has his foot hurt.
But anyway, you guys get the point, right?
Now, oh, and by the way, let me break this down for y'all real quick because I know some of you guys are probably like, wait, whoa, wait, Maya, what the fuck?
Why are Crips and Bloods together in a music video?
What the hell's going on here?
So let me break this down for y'all real quick because New York Bloods and Crips are very different than West Coast Bloods and Crips, right?
So in New York, guys, it's common for Bloods, Crips, GDs, Gangster Disciples, all these guys to be friends with each other and all be from a different gang, but still kind of be like an umbrella group, okay?
Like that, that, like, New York is not like the West Coast where it's like, no, you only stick to your own and you don't fuck with nobody else.
You know, the West Coast still has that to some degree, but it's not as frowned upon in New York as it is on the West Coast, right?
Because in the West Coast, it's ingrained, man.
You're born into a Crip family.
Like, you're inheriting beefs from generations ago, etc.
But in New York, the Bloods and Crips, a lot of them are friends with each other based on where they're from.
Okay?
So it's not uncommon to have Crips and Bloods that are best friends that shoot at ops together, okay?
Or opposition.
Okay?
And I'll give you an example of this.
You look at like the Wu, right?
Rest in peace to Pop Smoke.
Right?
You look at the Wu.
That's an alliance, guys, of Crips, Bloods, some G, renegade GDs, et cetera.
And they all beef with like the Blicky Gang, 22G's in them, and Coach the Ghosts, you know, aka the Twirlers.
And even though the Wu has different gangs, it's one faction, one umbrella that goes after the Cho's, right, in this case, which is going to be mostly 90% GDs, all right, versus the Wu is Bloods and Crips.
In New York City, it's common for members of different gangs to be friends with each other and work with each other to align themselves to fight off ops.
Okay?
So that's why I want y'all to kind of understand that because I know some of you guys are probably watching that video.
Like, what the hell is going on here?
Why are they doing a music video together?
But that's how New York gang gangs work.
All right.
Let's see here.
Let me just read some of these things.
So just want y'all to understand the gang culture real quick as far as like how New York goes because it's much different than New York City, than California and LA.
All right, cool.
Y'all are enjoying this.
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
All right, so let's keep going.
Right?
So we went over Casanova, went over Dick Wolf, went over some of the music videos.
All right.
So cool.
So let's go over now what Rico is.
All right.
So we broke down who Casanova is, who the United Blood Nation are, who the Gorilla Stone, Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation are, Dick Wolf, right?
The leader.
Okay, oh, let's talk about why the feds took this case.
All right.
And then we're going to talk about Rico.
So let me break this down for y'all real fast.
The feds come in if the case is significant, right?
Because a lot of people ask me all the time, well, hey, well, what's the difference between the feds and the state, et cetera?
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So anyway, so why did the feds take this case?
So you guys got to understand that when it comes to federal cases, the feds only take cases that, number one, they're going to win and number two, benefit them with media exposure, with violent offenders, etc.
So, how do I say it?
I'm just going to have to be honest.
A lot of feds are cloud chasers.
I'm just going to say it.
All right.
Like, if you're a celebrity and you're committing crimes, right?
The feds are probably going to come after you because it's going to make headlines.
It's going to make the United States Attorney's Office look good.
It's going to, you know, you go get a promotion.
You're not going to get a promotion really because the feds are paid on a pay ban, but you're going to get respect in your office.
So like, you know, doing big cases is what distinguishes you as a good case agent, okay?
And if you could arrest a high-profile artist or a criminal, whatever it may be, or a big organization, that's considered a big W. So that's number one.
Why did the feds take this?
Well, obviously, you got a gang, right?
The Bloods, which we're going to talk about that in a second.
You got a rapper.
You got a big conspiracy spanning all across different state lines, prison system, et cetera, right?
This is not uncommon for the feds to go after gangs.
And then on top of that, they're in one of the worst districts to have a gang in, which is the Southern District of New York, okay, guys?
So the Southern District.
So you got, so there's two different things that you have to deal with when you're talking about federal prosecution.
You got the office and the agency.
Then you got the United States Attorney's Office.
Okay.
So the agency that did this case was the FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office, okay?
Ran this case.
Then the prosecuting office was the Southern District of New York, which is based in Manhattan.
Okay.
Now, FBI New York, very, you know, all the New York federal agencies' offices work really hard because it's a, you know, they're in a, they're in New York City.
There's a lot going on there, huge population, et cetera.
So it's very competitive in New York City between the FBI, Homeland Screen Investigations, us, which, you know, I resigned from, as you guys know, you know, IRS, et cetera, et cetera.
Every agency has a big field office in New York, and it's extremely competitive.
They're always fighting over targets, fighting over stats, fighting over arrests and seizures, etc.
So New York is where you've got to bring your A-game if you're an agent, you want to do big cases.
And then on top of that, the prosecutorial office there is extremely aggressive.
The Southern District of New York guys has put away some of the most heinous criminals, okay?
We're talking the big mob bosses, the big gangsters, the big Epstein, like any big case that comes out of New York, nine out of 10 times comes out of the Southern District of New York.
Not the Eastern District of New York, which is Brooklyn, but the Southern District of New York, which is based in Manhattan.
That's who got 6ix9ine.
That's who got John Gotti, all that stuff, all right?
So that's why the feds took this case because it was going to be high profile.
It's complex.
There's a lot of conspirators.
There's violence involved.
Also, guys, there was a murder During this investigation, which anytime there's like acts of violence where they can establish shootings, murders, et cetera, were committed on behalf of the organization, they're going to press on it.
Okay.
They're going to 100% go after that organization.
So, that is why the feds were interested in this.
Okay.
It's a big, sexy case, guys.
And like I've told y'all before, if it can make the U.S. Attorney's Office look good and it can make the agency look good, they're going to do it.
All right.
Now, let's talk about what the hell is RICO, okay?
So, RICO, guys, and I'm pulling this off of the Department of Justice site.
So, I'm going to read to you guys what RICO is, and I'm going to give you guys a perspective from an agent how it works.
All right.
RICO, guys, it is unlawful for anyone.
Well, actually, what does it stand for?
Right?
Let's see what it stands for first.
So, RICO stands for, excuse me, guys.
The Racketeer Influencer Corrupt Organization Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil clause of any action of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
RICO is enacted by Section 901 of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970.
So, that's what RICO is, right?
And you guys are probably wondering, well, what the hell, like, how did it come about?
Long story short, guys, and I talked about this on, I think, on the last episode.
RICO was created in the 70s, guys, because back in the 70s, public enemy number one for the FBI, right, was the mafia, La Cosa Nostra, all right?
Our little thing, as they would say, I think, in Italian, our thing.
And the issue was the guys, right, these mafia guys would get arrested, right?
But they wouldn't, I'll tell you guys a story first before I then we'll read through it.
These guys would get arrested and they could never pin anything on the guy that led to the hit, right?
So, like, if I'm, let's say, I'm, see, I already know I'm gonna get hit with the fucking when I make this joke.
How dare you!
So, let's say I'm Tony, okay?
Tony, hey, what's up?
And then, my man Gino, right?
Yeah, hey, Gino, forget about it, all right?
He tells me, hey, that guy owes me some money, give him some concrete slippers, okay?
Throw him in the water, in the water after.
Okay, cool.
So, I go, right, and I take Jimmy, right?
And I, and I throw, you know, I beat him up, right?
Hey, where's the money asshole?
Boom, boom, boom, you know, beat him up, me and three of my boys, right?
We beat his ass, throw him in a Hudson, right?
He's swimming with the fishes, right?
And I go back and I let my boss Gino know, hey, it's done.
We got the money, buddy.
Give him the money, right?
And then they arrest me and my team, right?
And I was the one that actually beat up the dude.
Another guy put the cement shoes on him, and another guy was just watching.
Another dude was a getaway driver, right?
So it used to be they would arrest us, and you know, only one of us would get hit for the murder, right?
The other guy's kind of like, yeah, well, you kind of were there, whatever, you know, it is what it is, blah, blah.
But now with Rico, not only are they going to hit me with the murder and everything else, they're going to hit us all with racketeering, okay?
Me, the getaway driver, the dude that was watching, the dude that was in the bathroom, whacking it, you know, because he didn't have time.
Oh, we're all going down for racketeering, all right?
He didn't even put the cement shoes on him.
He was just there in the bathroom somewhere.
We're all going to get hit with racketeering to include everyone in the chain that was involved in the organization to make that happen.
So what RICO effectively does is it gives you a blanket charge against the entire organization because they're committing crimes in furtherance of the organization.
So in this case, me giving them cement shoes because they didn't pay back a debt to the organization to send a message to increase our to increase our standing, right?
Our criminal standing.
That is all considered in furtherance of the organization.
So bam, we're all going to get hit with racketeering and murder and all that other stuff.
All right.
So that is how RICO laws worked.
And this was enacted in the 70s to get people to cooperate, to get people stiffer penalties, et cetera, because they would do stuff.
They wouldn't cooperate and they couldn't do nothing about it because they weren't able to attack the higher ups that were the ones calling the shots, like, hey, make them swim with the fishes.
Hey, beat his break as kneecaps.
You know what I'm saying?
They couldn't prove it.
So the higher-ups were always insulated and protected and didn't really go to jail.
All right.
Even though they were the ones calling the shots.
So finally, in the 70s, the FBI was able to use racketeering to go after the big mob bosses who were calling the shots.
And they were able to charge everyone so that people were like, damn, I ain't going to jail for life for this.
Fuck that.
I'm a snitch.
And then bang, people started turning.
People started turning, you know, cooperating with the government.
And bang, the FBI was able to start taking down the mafia because the mafia was literally public enemy number one for the FBI in the 70s, guys.
They were running shit.
All right.
Especially, you know, all over the place in Florida and the Northeast, New York, Rhode Island, California.
You know, they were all over the different crime families, which, if you guys want, I could do an episode on Italian organized crime for y'all as well.
Tony Stromboli.
Martin, as an Italian, I'm offended.
Sorry, bro.
Don't swim with the fishes.
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Question, Agent Gates.
How does one put fear into the prosecutor to avoid cases?
Not referring to that, but would feds go after a senator, son, wife, etc., if politics involved.
Yeah, no, no, no.
Public corruption is very real, guys.
The FBI does them all the time.
You know, matter of fact, if, if, you know, if anything, if you're a senator committing crimes, bro, the AUSA is going to be looking at you like Birdman, like, yeah, I'm going to definitely get a promo off of this shit.
I press, I indict a goddamn senator and make a sexy case.
I'm definitely going to get the come up, man.
So it's actually the contrary to what people think.
Like, they would want to prosecute those types of people because it's going to make headlines.
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All right, cool.
So now we know what RICO is.
So let's read through some of this stuff real fast.
And then we're going to get into the indictment.
And guys, do me a favor, like the video.
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So it is unlawful for anyone employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in or the activities of which affect interstate or foreign commerce to conduct or participate directly or indirectly in the conduct of such enterprises' affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.
Okay, and then they put the statutes.
The RICO Act, right, was passed by Congress with the declared purpose of seeking to eradicate organized crime in the United States, right?
And then they put all the statutes.
A violation of section 1962 requires one, conduct, two, of an enterprise, three, run through a pattern, four, of racketeering activity.
Okay.
A more expansive view holds that in order to be found guilty of violating the RICO statute, the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt, one, that the enterprise existed, two, that the enterprise affected interstate commerce, three, that the defendant was associated with or employed by the enterprise, and then number four, that the defendant engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity.
And number five, that the defendant conducted or participated in the conduct of the enterprise through the pattern of racketeering activity through the commission of at least two acts of racketeering activity as set forth in the indictment.
So let's rewind that.
Say that in English.
Basically, that's the government's broad way of saying, hey, asshole, if you're a part of any type of organization that is involved in criminal activity, all right, we're going to refer to it as the enterprise and anything you do for the betterment of said organization, right?
And whether it's to help you for your financial goals or increase your standing in the organization or to impart fear in other people, whatever it is, you will get hit with this charge.
All right.
And then here we go.
An enterprise is defined as including any individual partnership cooperation association or other legal entity and other union or group of individuals associated.
In fact, although not a legal entity, okay?
Many courts have noted that Congress mandated a liberal construction of the RICO statute in order to effectuate its remedial purposes by holding that the term enterprise has an expansive statutory definition.
English.
Hey, if you're a part of a gang, motherfucker, you're in an enterprise.
Okay, that's in plain English.
Basically, what's happening is you guys could tell it's extremely broad and fairly ambiguous as to what constitutes an enterprise, et cetera.
Okay?
And it was written like that on purpose.
And the reason why it's written like that is so that they can go ahead and hit you if you're part of a gang and they can prove that you're committing criminal activity in furtherance of the gang.
That's really all they got to do.
And then bang, they hit you with racketeering.
All right.
Which is what has me concerned with Casanova.
All right, guys.
Because they might not hit Cass with all the charges and make it stick, but they're going to get him on a couple of these, which we're going to talk about here in detail.
But that's why now y'all see why I was very adamant about breaking down the United Blood Nation, breaking down the untouchable Guerrilla Stone Nation, etc.
Because this paints the picture, guys.
What the prosecutor's office is going to do this.
And me, like if I was a case agent and I'm working with the prosecutor, I'm going to the prosecutor.
I'm showing him those music videos I just showed y'all with them running the red flags and, you know, and talking about we the big apes, all this other stuff.
I'm using all that to establish that he's a member of this sophisticated organized sophisticated criminal organization.
All right.
And I'm going to argue that he's using his position as a musician with worldwide reach to further the endeavors of said gang.
Every time he's saying big ape, red bandanas, blah, blah, blah, was good, blah, all that other stuff.
He's further, how do I say this?
He's increasing the gang's reputation abroad, everywhere.
So that's all they got to prove, guys.
Really?
That's all they got to prove, which is what has me concerned.
This is why.
So the thing with RICO, right?
And I'm going to tell y'all some sauce that nobody really talks about.
It's very difficult as an agent to bring a RICO case against people.
You have to be, number one, you have to establish that it's an enterprise, which in this case, obviously United Blood Nation, we already know they're a gang nationwide, fairly easy to establish, right?
If it was a smaller, unknown gang, it'd be a little bit tougher for you because then you have to establish that they're like, you know, they're sophisticated, organized, et cetera.
So, bam, that's easy.
Blood gang.
Okay, done, right?
And then, second, you have to put in paperwork, guys, right, to get your case designated as a RICO case through the United States Attorney's Office, the prosecution office.
It's got to go to the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. for approval, okay?
You can't get a RICO case just by saying, I want to make this a RICO.
Like, no, you have to put a formal request through your prosecutor, right, over to the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. They approve it as a RICO case.
Then you can start using RICO laws in your investigation.
All right.
Then you can designate it as a RICO case, which is fairly tough to do.
I ain't going to lie to y'all, man.
It's not easy to make it a RICO case.
You have to establish that it's an enterprise and all this other stuff that I told you guys.
However, once you're able to establish it as a RICO case, everything else falls in place and it's a lot easier from that point forward because now I don't really got to prove that you did shit.
All I got to prove is that you're committing criminal activity in furtherance of the gang.
Done.
That's what it is.
They do the work up front, get it approved as a RICO so that when they come in and they indict you and they hit you with that, you know, that true bill, you're going to do some time.
All right.
So that's a little insight right there as far as how it is to do a RICO case from the investigator's perspective.
It's extremely difficult to get it approved, but once you do, it's a wrap.
Because there, now you have this broad authority that I just read to you guys, which is basically in English, if you're a part of a gang and you do shit for the gang, we're going to come after you.
That's basically what it means in layman's terms, right?
So now that we know what RICO laws are, why they were created, et cetera, and we got the background.
See how I'm systematically breaking this down for y'all so you guys can understand the gravity of this.
We're going to talk about the actual charges, okay?
We're going to actually talk about, now we're going to go into Casanova's case, but I had to paint the picture with you guys.
And for some of y'all that are joining, number one, like the video.
Number two, quick little recap.
We talked about who's Casanova.
We talked about his criminal history, what burglary.
We talked about his initiation into the gang, the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation.
Then we talked about how the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation is a set of the bloods underneath the United Blood Nation.
We talked about the history of the United Blood Nation, how it started in New York City and Rikers Island with OG Mac.
Then we talked about who Dick Wolf is, who is the top target in this case.
He's the file title, right?
AKA Dwight Reed, the top blood.
We talked about his connection with Casanova, showed the pictures of them together.
And then we talked about why the feds even probably picked up this case.
I explained to you guys how, you know, big sexy cases of what the Southern District of New York wants to do.
Then we talked about what are RICO laws, how, and the history of how RICO laws came into play.
So now that we've got all this down, we're going to talk about the Department of Justice press release, okay?
So anytime someone's arrested, right, a big person, Department of Justice does a press release, all right?
And this is the press release that they did.
18 members of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation gang charged with racketeering murder, narcotics, firearms, and fraud offenses.
Now, guys, just want to let you know, anytime there's an arrest or whatever, like a big federal arrest, always go to the DOJ.gov website, all right?
Don't go to these other stupid blogs or whatever.
Always go here.
It's going to have a GOV in the title, right?
This is the official government website of the United States Attorney's Office.
And this one is for the Southern District of New York, okay?
Which I told you guys is one of the most aggressive prosecutorial offices in the country federally, okay?
So, so we go Audrey Strauss, the acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William V. Grady, Dutchess County District Attorney, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director in charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Thomas Pape, Chief of the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department, Dermont Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, Don Halmy, Chief of the Peace Scale Police Department, Thomas Gleason, Commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Public Safety, and Anthony J. Anucci, acting commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision,
okay, announced that the unsealing of a 16-count indictment charging 18 members of the untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation with committing various racketeering murder, narcotics, firearms, and fraud offenses.
Brandon Soto, aka Stax, is charged in connection with the September 21st, 2020 murder of a minor in Poughkeepsie.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Philip M. Haltburn.
Okay, so let's break that down in English for y'all real quick.
Now, if you guys want to see who the main investigative agency is, always look and see who is the first agency they mention.
Okay, so in this case, this guy who's the ASAC, right, assistant special agent in charge of the New York office, FBI.
So now we know FBI ran this case, right?
Don't believe it whenever they say some bullshit like joint investigation by blah, blah, blah.
Real talk, guys, here's the RP.
There is no such thing as a joint investigation.
There's always one lead agency, always one lead agency.
You might work closely with another agency, but at the end of the day, there's one main agency and there's one main case agent that calls the shots that when you sit there with the prosecutor and trial, the case agent six next to the prosecutor, okay?
So in this case, the FBI was a lead agency on here.
And then as you guys can see, they had a bunch of state and locals involved that were helping them out.
Because these crimes were all over the place.
And it's not uncommon, guys, for there to be something called a safe streets task force.
Okay.
And this is something that the FBI has in particular.
And what the Safe Streets Task Force is, guys, is it's a task force comprised of federal, state, and local law enforcement that sit together in one area and they specialize in violent crime, gangs, drug trafficking, et cetera.
And they're typically the ones that do these kinds of RICO gang cases, etc.
And then you got a bunch of state locals that sit on the task force with you.
Sometimes some feds here or there, depending on their relationship in that area, and they do these kinds of cases.
So I already know that when the FBI does a RICO case like this on gangs, it's 99% of the time they're Safe Streets Task Force.
But other agencies have their own gang task forces, like ATF has a gang task force.
Homeland Security Investigations has a gang task force.
A matter of fact, the Tekashi 69 case was done by the HSI gang task force in New York City, right?
And that case, I think, happened.
Yeah, that case happened before this one.
So I would not be surprised if the FBI and HSI did a little bit of fighting, you know, as far as like information goes, because you're going to have a lot of overlapping targets when you're dealing with like, you know, blood organizations, et cetera.
So whenever you read these press releases, guys, to figure out who the main agency was, whichever federal agency is labeled first is the one that did the case, all right?
So did it.
So here we go.
This is basically, and, you know, each of the, you know, the acting attorney makes a statement, right?
This always happens.
So now y'all know how to read these, these press releases, right?
So the U.S. attorney, the acting U.S. attorney goes ahead and makes an announcement.
Then the FBI Assistant Director Bam makes an announcement.
Then the Commissioner Dermot, you know, NYPD Commissioner.
Was this the assistant?
Let's see here.
Assistant Director.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, I'll read this one.
This is actually kind of funny.
Yeah.
So this guy's like the second in charge of the FBI.
It's not an assistant special agent in charge.
It's the assistant director made this announcement.
Wow, this must have been a big case for them then.
Yeah, let's see here.
Yeah, assistant director in charge.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Then yeah, this must have been really big for them to have the assistant do it.
Because normally it's the special agent in charge that goes to these press releases, who he runs the office.
So, okay, let me break the down hierarchies for you guys real fast.
Hold on.
So whether you're a part of the FBI, DEA, Homeland Security Investigations, ATF, Office of Inspector General, IRS, whatever, there's always something called a special agent in charge, guys, or the SAC, okay?
They pretty much run the office.
They're the top dog, but they're managerial.
You know what I'm saying?
They're not running around doing cases.
They just oversee everything.
Then underneath him is something called some agencies have it, some agencies don't.
I know for a fact, the FBI does not have this, but just for learning purposes, there's something called a deputy special agent in charge.
He's number two in command.
He's basically the SAC's right-hand man, and he's helping them with running the office, right?
Then underneath the deputy special agent in charge is something called assistant special agent in charge, right?
The assistant special agent in charge is, they basically like oversee different groups, okay?
Right?
And then underneath the assistant special agent in charge is something called a supervisor or a supervisory special agent, okay?
This is a GS14.
They're the ones that actually supervise a group and are like the first line of supervision, okay?
So I'll give you an example.
Me, right?
When I was working for HSI, I was the agent and I had a supervisor, my first-line supervisor, right?
Or supervisory special agents, they would say.
I was a 13.
He's a 14.
Anytime I need something done or whatever, like, hey, I need funding for a case.
Hey, I need to get my report approved.
Hey, you know, I need to get this pushed through management so that I can get funding.
Whatever it is, I want to travel any of that.
I push it to my first-line supervisor.
The first-line supervisor is basically the conduit between you, right, and the admin, right?
They're the ones helping you get your stuff done to run a case.
Because when you're doing big investigations like this, guys, it's very tough to do it.
You need help.
So your supervisor is supposed to help you, right?
And people in your group, other agents.
After the supervisor is that second-line supervisor, which I told y'all about, the assistant special agent in charge.
He typically is managing multiple groups, multiple supervisors who are managing multiple agents.
Then above the assistant special agent in charge is, like I said, the DSAC and then the SAC.
So that's how most hierarchies go in the federal government when it comes to federal agents and how they're managed, et cetera.
So, you know, that's basically the loose structure, depending on the agency.
Some agencies are small where, like, you know, the assistant special agent in charge might actually be out there doing surveillance with y'all.
But bigger agencies like FBI, HSI, et cetera, once you hit a supervisor level, you're not really, you don't carry cases anymore.
You're freaking, you know, you're managing.
So anyway, so y'all understand just the hierarchy.
So this guy's an assistant director.
So this dude probably isn't even in the office.
He's over probably in DC or something.
But anyway, he goes, as the indictment alleges the violence and drug activity committed by these gang members threaten the safety of our communities and place innocent lives at risk.
Their unabashed criminal behavior as alleged included the murder of a 15-year-old and even extended to defrauding programs meant for people suffering economic hardship due to the pandemic.
But thanks to the partnership and hard work of all law enforcement agencies involved in this investigation, we were able to stop this violent criminal organization and show that Gorilla Stone is actually not untouchable.
And they definitely made a tweet about that too, just so y'all know.
It probably took him, he probably wrote that speech up for like a month, like, oh, I can't wait to say this one.
This one's going to be lit.
So, okay, so let's see here.
And then these are just the statements from the other, you know, heads of these other agencies, guys.
So when they do these press releases, you know, it's, you know, they're all, you know, wearing, it's a dog and pony show.
You know what I'm saying?
And then here is the indictment against all the people.
As you guys can see, Dwight Reed is number one, a.k.a.
Dick Wolf.
He's the top guy, right?
And then 17 of the 18 defendants are in custody.
So Casanova, guys, when they push this out, Casanova was not in jail.
All right.
And then the case is being handled by the office office's White Plains Division and Violent and Organized Crime Unit, Assistant United States Attorney's Office.
So just like I told you, the FBI have a safe street task force.
The U.S. Attorney's Office typically has a violent organized crimes section, which is where these prosecutors are from that are doing this case.
So, and then here's all the defendants, all their charges.
God damn, football numbers coming in.
And then here's the indictment, okay, which I already have up.
You know what?
Let me, okay, let me go back to the chat real fast.
Okay.
Hope you guys are enjoying that.
I gave you a lot of sauce.
All right, let's on how the structure is going.
This is all public information, by the way, guys.
I ain't giving none of y'all like some classified information or nothing like that.
So this is all, you know, stuff that's out there.
It's just that I'm putting it in a nice, concise format for you guys so you can understand.
Okay, so let's see here.
Can you do the hush puppy case?
Very interesting one, considering he was in Dubai.
What do you think the outcome will be?
Oh, yeah, he's fried.
But I could do that case for y'all.
No problem.
Yeah, they got him for fraud.
G Complex 217, 10 bucks showing support for the new channel.
And guys, we're going to go over the indictment after this one.
Okay, so I'll read these chats and we'll get in.
Showing support for the new channel.
Off topic.
Thoughts on the Henry Ruggs DUI case?
Also, can I get a wrench to help out squad?
Okay, sir.
Let me see if I can give you a wrench.
Oh, it won't let me.
Damn it.
Okay.
Someone mod him up if they can.
And then, yeah, guys, hit up the likes, okay?
And then we got Elizabeth Holmes and the Capitol Riot on January for January 6th.
Yeah, I could talk about the Capital Riots.
I'll tell y'all this, man.
It's all misdemeanor charges.
So, I mean, it is what it is, but we could definitely break it down.
Robertson is shows fire fam.
Can I get a wrench?
Can someone give Robert Sonanis a wrench, please?
Let's see here.
I want to make sure I didn't miss any of y'all.
Tony Stromboli-Martin as an Italian.
I'm offended.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I read this one.
Okay, I think we're caught up.
Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
Yeah, don't worry, guys.
I'll do the 6'9 case as well.
The 6'9 case is very similar to this one.
You know, another gang Rico case.
This one, that one was done by Homeland Security Investigations.
This one was done by the FBI because you had the nine Trey Bloods on one, and then you had the Untouchable Gorilla Stones, which they're opposing.
They're almost kind of rivals.
You know what I'm saying?
They're both bloods, but they're a little bit of rivals, especially in New York.
But, all right, so let's go over this indictment, which when I looked at this joint, guys, I ain't gonna lie to you guys.
I was like, oh, Lord.
So let's pull it up right here from USDOJ.gov.
And actually, you know what?
First, let me teach you guys how to find an indictment.
I'm about to give y'all some sauce right now.
So let's say your favorite rapper gets arrested.
You want to read the case?
I got you guys right now.
This is how you do it, okay?
You're going to go over here.
Let me see if I can find it.
Bang.
You're going to go.
Nope, that's not it.
You know what?
Let me just open up a Google tab for y'all.
All right.
So you're going to go right here to pacer, right?gov.
Okay.
Public access to court electronic records.
All right.
This is for all federal cases.
Open that bad boy up, you know, find a case.
Nope.
Log in, right?
Pacer case locator.
And then bang, right?
You go in there, log into that bad boy.
Then you're in here.
Then you're going to go find cases and then bang.
Okay.
Well, actually, no, no, no.
Hold on.
You're going to go advanced case search.
Right?
And then you can just start typing in the region, right?
And in this case, it's New York, right?
Southern District of New York.
So we're going to go New York, bang, or sorry, New York Southern, right?
You got to know what district it's in.
New York Southern, right?
And then you're going to go.
See, if you have the case number, right, you could put in the case number, or you could put in the person's name as well, which gives you another thing.
I hate Pacer.
I'm not even going to lie to y'all.
It's very cumbersome.
It's not really that intuitive.
But case search.
Oh, look, I got my real name in there.
Oh, no.
But yeah, this is my account, by the way, guys.
This is my personal account.
So, anyway, that's how you find cases on PACER.
But anyway, let me.
But Pacer.gov is how you find it.
All right.
The Tupac Biggie cases when you can.
Yeah, that won't be tough.
I ain't going to lie to y'all.
So anyway, now y'all know how to find your own federal cases, but let's go back to the press release.
A lot of the times the press release will have it for you guys.
So let me pull this up real fast.
Let's go back to that press release I told you guys about 18 members.
Bang.
Let's pull out this indictment, right?
It's always at the bottom, guys.
All right.
So if you want to manually find a PACER.gov, if you want to find it, typically it's in the press release, especially if it's a big case.
Here's the case number: U.S. versus Dwight et al., which means, you know, and I think Latin, like him and everyone else.
Bam, here's the indictment.
All right.
Start breaking this bad boy down.
All right.
So as you guys can see, United States of the District, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, United States of America versus God damn everybody and their mom, right?
Okay.
You got Dick Wolf here, right?
The top guy.
And then typically, guys, it just works its way down.
So Dick Wolf was the top guy.
This dude, Christopher Erskine, was second in command, and then et cetera.
And then you got Casanova right here, I think, right around eight or nine, right?
And reading indictments is extremely redundant.
So I'm going to like, for the purposes of not putting you guys to sleep, I'm going to read, you know, the pertinent stuff, right?
So at all times relevant to this indictment, White Reed, aka Dick Wolf, Christopher Erskine, aka Beagle, Walter Luster, aka Shells, right?
And they just start listing out each of their names, right?
And their nicknames, right?
Caswell Sr., a.k.a.
Casanova.
So, boom.
So they put all their names in there.
And Brenine, Brene Thornton, aka Luxury, the defendants, and others known and unknown were members and associates of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation or the Enterprise.
Remember how I broke it down for you guys earlier?
Like enterprise is what they want to define you as when you're a gang organization so that they can prosecute you under RICO.
That's what this indictment is doing.
They're making the Gorilla Stone essentially known as an enterprise.
And for the purposes of this indictment, they're going to refer to them as enterprise.
You guys are going to see here in a second.
A criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in, among other activities, acts involving murder, robbery, fraud, and the distribution of controlled substances.
Gorilla Stone operated in and around Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and upstate New York.
Okay?
Gorilla Stone, including its leadership, its membership, and its associates, constituted an enterprise as defined by Title 18, United States Code Section 1961, which we broke down, right?
That is a group of individuals associated, in fact, although not a legal entity, right?
The enterprise constituted an ongoing organization whose members function as a continuing unit for a common purpose of achieving the objectives of the enterprise.
At all times relevant to this indictment, the enterprise was engaged in and its activities affected interstate and foreign commerce.
Okay, so let me break that down.
That's really important, guys.
When the feds come in, nine out of ten times, interstate commerce has to be affected.
And that can be as little as you crossing a state line, you calling someone, you using text message, you using the internet.
That all is considered affecting interstate commerce.
Okay?
I'll give you guys an example.
So, as you guys know, I did a lot of cases when I was in Texas.
One of the charges I would always go after guys for was something called felon in possession.
Okay, felon in possession.
Here, let me close this out real fast.
Felon in possession, guys, is a charge where a convicted felon, you know, is a possession of firearm because you cannot own a firearm or possess a firearm once you're convicted felon in the United States federally, 18 USC 922G, okay?
Have it memorized like the back of my head.
And one of the elements is you need to establish to prosecute them federally under 18 USC 922 is you need to be able to establish that the firearm affects interstate commerce.
You guys want to know how easy that is?
All I got to do is seize the gun, give it to an ATF agent, aka Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, right?
They're in charge with dealing with, you know, all the gun crimes in the United States and like identifying firearms.
He gives me something called the Interstate Nexus Report.
And the Interstate Nexus report basically shows: let's say it's a Glock.
The spring was made in Massachusetts.
The barrel was made in Connecticut.
The grip was made in Georgia, etc.
That right there, the fact that that gun was made in different places of the United States and was shipped from somewhere else means it affected interstate commerce or foreign commerce.
Bang, now I can charge one felon in possession because he was in possession of a firearm that affected interstate commerce.
That's how easy it is to prove interstate commerce, gentlemen.
Okay?
All right.
So now y'all understand how easy it is to make that threshold.
So let's continue reading on with the indictment.
Y'all enjoying this?
Give me some fire emojis if you guys are enjoying this, man.
Let's see here.
Okay.
Let's go back to this indictment.
Cool.
So, where am I?
My bad, guys.
I got a lot in front of me right now.
So much.
Okay.
So we were right here at all times.
Second sentence, okay?
At all times relevant to this indictment, the enterprise engaged in and its activities affected interstate and foreign commerce, right?
Do I read and then they go over all the names?
We're just going to skip that shit.
The defendants participated in the enterprise and participated in unlawful and other activity in furtherance of the conduct of the enterprise's affairs.
All right.
So now we're on paragraph three.
Members and associates of Gorilla Stone engaged in a series of violent disputes with rivals of Gorilla Stone, including those within Gorilla Stone who they deem disloyal to the enterprise.
During these disputes, members and associates of Gorilla Stone committed murder, shootings, robberies, and assaults against their rivals and against fellow members of Gorilla Stone.
Okay.
Members and associates of Gorilla Stone sold crack cocaine, cocaine, and marijuana in and around Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Westchester County, and upstate New York.
Okay, see you guys how they're trying to establish that this is all affecting interstate commerce.
Members and associates of Grilla Stone committed and agreed, attempted, and threatened to commit acts of violence to protect and expand their narcotics business to protect fellow members and associates of the enterprise to otherwise promote the standing and reputation of Gorilla Stone amongst rival gangs and to promote the standing and reputation of members of Guerrilla Stone.
These acts of violence included acts involving murder, robbery, and assault intended to protect the enterprise's narcotics business and to retaliate against members of rival gangs who had encroached on the enterprise's narcotics business.
Let's put that in English.
Basically, when Casanova's in music videos saying, punch you in your face, motherfucker, knock your teeth out.
That's one thing, right?
It's music, right?
Protected under the First Amendment.
But if they see text messages and everything else where he's really punching people and knocking their teeth out in furtherance of the gang, which they do have, by the way, on his phone, then now they can establish you are committing criminal activity in furtherance of the gang.
And not only that, your music and your stature in itself promotes Guerrilla Stone.
Okay?
So see how this is very ambiguous and can be bad for Casanova.
So here we go.
And this, here's the thing with these recall laws, guys.
They're written this way.
It's a catch-all.
It's a catch-all.
Like, if you're a part of a criminal organization, this is designed to come after you.
That's why it's written this way.
All right.
And that's why I had to, like, I was very adamant about telling you guys about the United Blood Nation, the Gorilla Stone Bloods, et cetera, so that I can establish to you, this is what the government interprets, guys, as an enterprise.
All right.
The purpose of the enterprise included the following: preserving and protecting the power.
And now we're on line six here.
The power, territory, and profits of the enterprise through acts involving murder, other acts of violence, and threats of violence.
Promoting and enhancing the enterprise and the activities of its members and associates.
C, keeping victims and potential victims in fear of the enterprise and its members and associates through acts and threats of violence.
Providing assistance to members and associates who committed crimes for and behalf of the gang.
Enriching the members and associates of the enterprise through, among other things, robbery, wire fraud, and the distribution of sale of narcotics, including crack cocaine, cocaine, and marijuana.
Protecting the enterprise and its members and associates from detection and prosecution by law enforcement authorities through acts of intimidation and violence against potential witnesses to crimes committed by members of the enterprise.
Very broad, see guys.
And then means the methods of the enterprise.
Among the means and methods employed by the members and associates in conducting and participating in the conduct of the affairs of the enterprise were the following: A, members and associates of enterprise committed, conspired, attempted, and threatened to commit acts of violence, including acts involving murder to protect and expand the enterprise of criminal operations against rival gang members.
B, members and associates of enterprise use threats of violence and physical violence against other members and associates of the enterprise to enforce and maintain discipline within the enterprise.
C, members and associates of the enterprise committed, conspired, attempted, and threatened to commit acts of violence, including acts involving murder and robbery against rival gang members and other individuals.
And then, as you guys can see, it just keeps going down, right?
Just like, you know, members and associate that we're on E right now of the enterprise obtained, possessed, and used firearms.
So there's outlining everything.
Sometimes it's repetitive, but the reason why the government does that is that they catch you in everything.
Okay?
They're rewarding it a little bit, putting it back.
Like it's meant to be this way to be extremely broad to catch all kinds of racketeering activity.
All right.
Members and associates of the enterprise distributed control substances, including crack cocaine, cocaine, and marijuana.
Members and so, and then we're on G now.
Members and associates of the enterprise committed and conspired to commit wire fraud by fraudulently obtaining benefits from relief programs meant to assist small businesses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits and conspiring to fraudulently use funds related to a section 501 charitable organization operated by members and associates of the enterprise.
God damn!
In English, guys, wire fraud is one of the easiest charges to prove.
All I need to do is show that you committed some kind of criminal activity or some kind of fraud and you were paid for it through, let's say, let's say I sell you, right?
Let's say I sell you a stolen credit card, right?
I sell you the stolen credit card and you pay me, you send me $1,000 on cash app for the stolen credit card that you're going to go use at Saks 5th Avenue to buy a bunch of, oh no, Louis bags.
Now we're going to get hit with conspiracy, right?
Because there's two of us making an agreement and then an overt act because you went to Saks 5th Avenue to buy the bags.
And then on top of that, me accepting the money.
So we're also going to both get hit with wire fraud because I gave you a stolen credit card to facilitate a criminal act and you paid me through the internet, which is wire fraud.
Okay?
One of the easiest charges to prove with Uncle Sam.
That's why they're going to get them for wire fraud because they basically, what these guys did, just to sum it up for y'all, and I won't get too much into this, but members of the organization basically made a fake LLC, okay?
And they used it kind of as a shell company to get a bunch of unemployment and PPP benefits from the Department of Small Business Administration, right?
Get these loans.
They took the money and they used it to commit criminal activity.
So that's why they got hit with wire fraud because they lied on the applications to the U.S. government.
Those applications were sent in.
So right there, bam, that's going to constitute fraud.
Then on top of that, the United States sent them money, right, through wire, and they got it through fraud.
So bang, they get hit with wire fraud.
I think, if I'm not mistaken, it's 18 USC 1334 or something like that.
Which, if I'm right on that, then I'm a loser.
Anyway, so the racketeering conspiracy, okay, number eight.
And let me go back here real quick.
Take a quick little break, look at chats or whatever, because I'm going off right now.
You guys can't see?
All right, let me look here.
Sorry, guys, if I missed some of y'all or whatever.
Okay.
Let's see.
So you guys were saying you can't see.
All right, let me.
I'm going to share the screen here in a second and pull it back up.
But I was reading it to you guys, so don't worry about it.
And then we got, oh, Jabrizi in here.
Here too, your new channel support, Myron.
Thank you so much, Jabrizi.
I appreciate that, my friend.
Don't demonstrate.
All right.
So, my bad about that, guys.
So let me share the indictment real quick with y'all.
Okay, can y'all see that?
I think you guys should be able to see it now.
Yep, I think you guys can see it now.
All right, so I'm going to increase the size on it.
So what page was I on?
I was on the racketeering conspiracy.
The methods of the enterprise.
Purpose of the enterprise.
Right, we talked about.
So yeah, and then the enterprise.
And this is the superseding indictment here, guys, that I'm looking at, actually.
So, yeah, y'all can see it now, I think.
Hold on, let me make sure you guys are good in the chat.
Okay, there we go.
It's blurry?
No, it's not blurry.
Because I can see it right now myself, too.
And I apologize for that earlier, guys.
Let's see here.
But I did read it out verbatim for you guys.
So you're still going to get the sauce anyway.
You're still going to learn.
Murder and hated racketeering.
Okay, that was for the other shooting.
You know what?
No, let me pull up the other indictment real fast.
Because this is a superseding indictment.
So let me pull up the other one.
All right.
Can you guys stop sharing this one?
I'm going to share this one with you guys instead.
Bear with me here.
I got a lot of tabs open, guys.
Let's see.
This one.
Nope, I don't want this one.
Actually, is this one the right one?
Nope.
Let me close this tab.
I'm going to close all these tabs, guys.
Sorry.
All right.
So I'm going to clean some of these tabs here.
So, guys, go ahead.
If you have any questions, start throwing them in now.
Closing some of these tabs so you guys don't, so I don't confuse you guys.
This is the, you know what?
Get rid of this download.
That download.
All right.
Get rid of PACER.
All right.
So I'm cleaning this stuff up, guys, so I can much easier because I got like a million tabs here.
So I apologize for that.
Let me make sure.
Okay.
Hush puppy case.
I see that.
All right.
So I'm going to.
So you guys should be able to see this press release right now, right?
Boom.
Boom.
Okay.
God damn it.
Right.
So, bam.
So you guys can see that press release.
I'm going to move this tab over here.
God damn it.
Where's Chris when you need him, right?
Okay.
So you guys can still see it.
Okay.
So now I'm going to open up.
This is the indictment right here, okay?
All right.
So y'all are not able to see.
So let me hit stop sharing on this one.
And then I'm going to open it back up for y'all.
So you guys can actually see the thing.
Download.
Bam.
Okay.
All right.
Now we lit.
We lit lit now.
Okay.
So this is the indictment, as you guys were seeing earlier.
Let's scroll down through this.
Okay.
I covered a bunch of it already.
I read it verbatim for you guys, so you guys don't worry.
Even though you might have not been able to see it, you can hear it.
And I read it for y'all.
So let's see here.
We were.
Okay.
This is where we were.
Notice of special sentencing factors.
Okay.
Oh, no, no.
Nope.
We're going to go back up because I want you guys to see.
Okay, here we go.
The racketeering conspiracy, right?
So they're breaking it down, right?
So first we talked about the organization.
We put in the defendants.
We talked about how they were committing different types of crimes, murders, drug trafficking, et cetera, to benefit the organization.
Now they're going to go from at least in or about 2010 to the present in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere.
Dwight Reed and then all the defendants, right?
Right.
We're going to just skip this.
And others, known and unknown, being persons employed by and associated with the enterprise described in paragraphs one through seven of this indictment.
See, that's why they were putting all that stuff in the beginning, guys, so they can establish their enterprise, okay?
Namely, Gorilla Stone, which Enterprise engaged in, and the activities of which affected interstate and foreign commerce, knowingly combined, conspired, confederated, and agreed together and with each other to violate the racketeering laws of the United States to wit, section 1962C of the Title 18 United States Code.
And which, by the way, guys, Title 18 is criminal.
Okay?
To conduct and participate directly and indirectly in the conduct of the affairs of Gorilla Stone through a pattern of racketeering activity as that term is defined in Title 18, United States Code, consisting of, and then boom, multiple acts involving murder, chargeable under the following provisions of state law, right?
So the big thing with racketeering also, guys, is that they need to establish that the criminal laws that you're breaking also have a state statue attributed to them.
Does that make sense?
So in this case, New York obviously has a murder charge, right?
So what do they do?
They cite the murder charge in the state of New York to establish, hey, we're going to do this federally, all right?
And then multiple acts involving robbery, chargeable under the following provisions of the United States law, New York penal law, boom.
And then they put the sections, right?
Multiple acts indictable under Title 18, United States Code 1951, relating to interference with commerce, robbery, or extortion, okay?
Multiple acts indictable under 18, Title 18, United States Code, wire fraud.
Oh, I had it right.
Did I say 1334?
No, I said, no, I said 1334.
It's 1343.
Sorry, guys.
18 USC 1343.
I almost had it right.
Wire fraud.
I haven't done a wire fraud case in years.
Multiple acts indictable under 18 USC, Section 1028, fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents, authentication, features, and information, right?
Because, like I told y'all before, they lied about what they were doing with the PPP loans, et cetera.
And then multiple offenses involving the distribution of control substances, including cocaine-based in a form commonly known as crack, cocaine, cocaine, and marijuana in violation of laws of the United States, namely Title 21.
Remember, I told y'all last week, Title 21 is the drug laws of the United States.
And then it goes, paragraph, now we're on paragraph nine.
It was a part of the conspiracy that each defendant agreed that a conspirator would conspirator would commit at least two acts of racketeering activity in the conduct of the affairs of the enterprise.
All right.
And then they start talking about sentencing.
We don't need it to go over that.
That's whatever.
Right.
And then count two, travel act murder.
Honor about.
And so this right here is, this is, honestly, this is a big reason why the feds took this case was because of this murder.
So honor about September 21st, 2020.
And mind you guys, this murder has nothing to do with Casanova.
It has nothing to do with Casanova.
But look how it's in the indictment because it's all one organization.
This dude, Brandon Soto, a.k.a.
Stacks, is the murderer, but the whole gang is getting hit with this to some degree because of that they're a criminal gang, right?
The Gorilla Stone Nation.
So let's read this murder indictment real quick on this guy, or this paragraph, number 14.
Honor about September 21st, 2020, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, Brandon Soto, aka Stacks, the defendant, knowingly used a facility in interstate and foreign commerce with intent to commit a crime of violence, namely assault and murder to further an unlawful activity, namely the Gorilla Stone Business Enterprise,
which was involved in the distribution of control substances and with intent to promote, manage, establish, and carry on and facilitate the promotion, management, establishment, and carrying on of the unlawful activity, and therefore did perform a crime of violence to further the unlawful activity and did aid and abet the same.
And death related to which Soto drove a co-conspirator to Poughkeepsie, New York, where Soto died and abetted the assault and murder of minor victim one.
Okay?
So what is that in plain English?
He killed that boy and he killed him and made the gang have a higher esteem for doing it because this person that got killed probably was an op, probably owed them money, probably was shown to was done to show a message to convey don't fuck with Gorilla Stone, you know?
And the kid, I think, was about 15 years old.
But let me let you guys know because I know some of you guys are like, oh my God, he's a kid.
He's a kid.
Guys, in New York City, when it comes to gang violence, a lot of the shooters are kids.
A lot of the murderers are kids.
And the reason why is because they get less time.
So a lot of the OGs give them the guns.
They make them do the dirty work because they're not going to get as much time for violent crimes.
So a lot of the shooters in New York City, guys, are actually kids.
It's not uncommon for dudes 14, 15, 16, 17 to already have a few bodies.
You know, this is the world that we live in when it comes to the gang world in New York City.
All right.
So I know some of you guys are like, oh my God, he killed a kid.
Nine out of ten times, that kid was probably involved in some kind of criminal activity as well, which is why they went after him.
All right.
And then count three, attempted murder, attempted assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering.
So you guys get the point here, right?
Like, see how they're just like, they're attributing the entire, they're attributing a crime to the entire organization because he committed that murder in furtherance of the organization.
So bang, they're like kind of hitting them all with it in the same indictment.
Even though not everyone is necessarily getting hit with murder, they're all getting hit with racketeering.
All right.
Let's see here.
Yeah, we're only on page.
And this is a 32-page indictment, guys.
FYI.
See, there's different counts.
So let's go through the counts real quick and then we'll go into like the actual evidence against Casanova himself.
All right.
Assault with dangerous weapon and aid of racketeering, Austin, Washington, and Ingram, right?
So those are three people in the indictment.
And these three actually were, I read the case.
These three were in charge of like helping procure weapons for the gang.
Okay.
Then you got count six, Yusuf Fireman furtherance of the June 12, 2020 assault with a dangerous weapon, Austin, Washington, Ingram, right?
This was, I think, got in some road rage or whatever.
And then count seven, attempted murder and assault, attempted assault with a dangerous weapon and aid of racketeering, Thornton, right?
Put the person's name.
Then count eight.
Use the fireman in furtherance of the August 8, 2018 attempted murder and attempted assault with a dangerous weapon, Thornton, right?
That's another gang member.
And then Miami and assaulting with a dangerous weapon and Ada Racketeering Woods.
All right.
Then count 10.
Possession with attempt to distribute crack cocaine.
This is Austin.
Count 11.
Possession with attempt to distribute crack cocaine, Erskine, Austin, and Ingram, right?
Them working together.
And this is where they caught them on wiretaps talking about this stuff on the phone.
A lot of these guys.
A couple of these guys actually got wiretapped, guys.
Possession with attempts to distribute crack cocaine, Soto.
Then count 13, which everyone got hit with this one, narcotics conspiracy.
So I read this one because Castano was actually in this one.
Count 13.
So let's hit it.
Paragraph 36.
From at least in or about 2010, goddamn, up to and including the president in the Southern District in New York and elsewhere, Dwight Reed, a.k.a.
Dick Wolf, Christopher Erskine, a.k.a.
Beagle, etc.
And they put all their names, right?
And for this count, intentionally and knowingly did combine to conspire, confederate, and agree together with each other to violate the narcotics laws of the United States.
It was part of an object of the conspiracy that Dwight Reed, right?
And then all these other names, the defendants, others known, would and did distribute and possess with intent to distribute control substances in violation of Title 21, United States Code.
Just, okay, so let me, because I know some of you guys are probably like, well, hold on, Myra, hold on.
This dude, Dwight Reed, was in jail.
What are you talking about?
Possession with intent to distribute.
What are you talking about?
Guys, if they can establish that, even if you were never in position of the possession of the drugs, like physically holding it, but you were talking with other gang members, you know, coordinating the transport, sale, distribution, packaging, storage, et cetera, of drugs, they can hit you with drug conspiracy.
Even though you might have never seen the drugs, you might have never touched the drugs.
The fact that you were involved in facilitating and handling the distribution of the drugs, merely being involved in the conspiracy is enough, guys.
Okay?
So you never actually have to possess the drugs to get hit with possession.
All right?
Like, as far as physically possessing it.
Conspiracy, you can get hit with.
All right.
And in violation of Title 21, right?
So now we're on paragraph 38.
The control substances that Dwight Reed, then they put all these names here, right?
Conspired to distribute and possess with intent to distribute were 280 grams or more of mixtures and substances containing a detectable amount of cocaine base in a form commonly known as crack cocaine in violation of Title 21, right?
Five kilograms and more of mixtures and substances containing a detectable amount of cocaine in violation of Title 21.
100 kilograms or more of mixtures and substances involving a detectable amount of marijuana in violation of Title 21.
So you're probably wondering, why the hell are they saying the amount and everything else like that?
The reason why they're saying that, guys, is because when you indict someone, right, for drugs, like all you have to do is like, for the purposes of like getting them indicted, is prove that the drug is of a certain drug.
But when it comes to sentencing, right, you're going to get hit with the purity of the drug, okay?
I'll give you an example.
So I had a big meth case when I was in Texas, right?
And the method, the method that I was seizing was coming back like 98% pure because it was coming right from Mexico.
It was Mexican meth, super meth, not like the bullshit here in the United States where it's like, you know, shaking bacon orange or whatever.
This stuff was, we used to call it ice.
It was like see-through, clear, and it was very, very potent, okay?
Now, when we arrested the guy that was distributing this stuff, he got significantly more time because it was over 80%.
When a drug is over 80%, it's considered pure.
Okay?
And it was considered pure.
You get more time for that.
So that's why they're writing it in that way to show that, hey, it was 280 grams of a mixture, et cetera, because they can't deductively tell you what the purity is.
That's going to come in sentencing.
You know what I'm saying?
And they got to send the drugs over to the DEA lab or a state lab, whatever it is, so the drugs can be processed, get a purity level, and then bang, that's your piece of evidence that you bring with you to trial to show that the drugs were pure, which they get more time on, okay?
So that's why they're saying that.
That's why they're phrasing it that way in the indictment.
Man, I'm giving y'all a lot of heat right now.
Like the goddamn video.
Ain't nobody breaking down these indictments like I am, man.
We're the best out here.
I love y'all giving y'all this value.
You guys talking about, was it blue?
No, it was white meth, guys.
We call that ice.
It's very tough to get a blue 10 on methamphetamine in the movie.
I mean, sorry, like the show.
What's the craziest thing you've seen or heard while working as a Fed?
I have a bunch of crazy stories.
I will do an episode, guys, where I just do crazy stories.
Kaisen Kings, off topic, can I trust Obi And Brandon?
Probation for Instagram verification services.
What do you think, Myron?
Yo, Kaiser Kings, there's a lot of poses of Brandon, bro, so just be careful.
A lot of people are like using his name and trying to sell services.
So just make sure it's the real one.
Agent Doll was out of place and now, and this is Valley staying 5.0.
And now no jumper is spreading hate on Myron.
We got your back, Myron.
It is what it is, man.
Thank you so much for the support, bro.
Y'all know the truth.
That's all that matters.
And then we got boom, 10 bucks from Buy One BBO going free.
If two federal agencies are working two independent cases, that turns out to be part of the same conspiracy, which federal agency will have superiority to take over the case?
That's a really, really good question.
I'll answer that at the end.
Okay?
So remind me at the end to do that.
I'll answer that.
Actually, let me screenshot that shit real quick because that's actually a very good question.
Because I'll break this down for y'all.
And then who else had a question?
Let's see here.
Mike World, I heard the best thing to do to find out if someone is undercover.
I actually asked them for a weapon.
Usually they can't risk you using the gun for a crime.
Truth.
I never heard of that, man.
Never heard of that.
Can you do Dirk and King Vaughan case or possibly Megan and Torrey Lane's?
Yes, I will do those.
Those are state cases, so it's going to be a little bit more pain in the ass, but I can do them.
Guys, state cases are tough because I got to go and find the documents.
And a lot of states have extremely cumbersome databases to pull the stuff up.
Hell, I just showed y'all the federal one.
It was trash.
Could you imagine how the state one is?
Ever work with the CIA or NSA?
No comment.
Anyway, so let's continue on.
So we're at count 14 now, right?
So now that we talked about the drugs, right, that they were dealing with, you know, 100 kilos or more of weed, 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, 280 grams or more of crack cocaine.
And by the way, guys, crack cocaine, you know, you could get quite a bit of time for that one.
And then now, count 14, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Okay.
And then as you guys can see, seniors hid in this too.
All right.
This is 18 USC 924C.
Guys, this is probably one of the worst charges.
Okay.
If you commit, if you're committing a drug trafficking crime, right, and you're armed with a gun, this is what they got Push Icy on.
Okay.
They're going to hit you with something called 924C, which is five years mandatory minimum.
Okay.
And it can't run concurrent.
It runs consecutive, which means if I get hit with, let's say, murder for 20 years, right?
And then I also get hit with 924C, nine out of 10 times, that means I'm going to have to do 25 years bare minimum.
I'm going to get to 20 for the murder, and then I'm going to have to do the other five for the possession of a firearm while committing a drug trafficking offense because that charge typically, they don't let it run concurrently, which means they run it at the same time.
So you only do 20.
No, you're going to have to do that 20.
Then you're going to have to the extra five for that.
It doesn't run concurrently.
Okay.
So now we're on paragraph 39.
Between in or out about 2010 and November 2020 in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere.
And the reason why they wrote it that way, guys, is because they actually indicted the gang in November of 2020, right?
So they've been looking at these guys for 10 years, all right?
Or they have evidence that dates back to 10 years, okay?
Which is which is very problematic.
I told y'all when the feds come, they've been looking at you guys for a long time, bro.
So and then it starts naming the names in the southern district of New York and elsewhere.
Bam, they start naming all the people.
Skip that shit.
The defendants during in relation to a drug trafficking offense for which they may be prosecuted in court, United States, namely a narcotics trafficking conspiracy charge.
And Count 13 of this indictment knowingly did use and carry a firearm in furtherance of such drug trafficking crime, did possess a firearm, and did aid and abet the use, carrying, and possession of a firearm.
So basically the fact that they were trafficking drugs and a possession of firearms, bam, that's automatic other charge now, okay?
Count 15, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime, Santos.
Okay, he probably pulled a gun out while selling dope, dummy.
Now count 16, Austin and Austin and Outlaw, okay?
Which is aggravated identity theft.
Okay, so these guys, right, what they did was they lied, right?
And they got a bunch of COVID relief, like I told y'all before, under a fake LLC that Dick Wolf was managing, okay?
Let's see here.
And then now the forfeiture.
Yeah, so now they're talking about forfeiture allegations.
This is like taking their money away, right?
And the substitute assets provision.
Yeah, so this is now, this is like basically, and then bang.
Here's the acting United States attorney, right, who signed off on this thing.
And this is the four-person, because like I told y'all before, when you go to a grand jury, when you go get someone indicted, you know, the federal agent, he walks in with his prosecutor.
They swear you in.
Hey, is the testimony you're going to give true and correct to the best of your knowledge?
So help you, God, under the penalty of perjury.
Yes, I do.
And then you sit down.
The prosecutor asks you questions.
You answer questions on the case.
Sometimes you might come in with a PowerPoint if the case is complex to show the grand jury.
Grand jury reads, it listens to your case.
And then any questions?
No?
Okay.
They tell the agent to leave the grand jury room.
And then the AUSA sits there with the grand jurors.
They deliberate.
And then, you know, they return the true bill of indictment.
All right.
So, number one, give me some flame emojis right now.
Okay.
But wait, there's more.
Okay.
Now we went over the indictment, right?
So now we're going to go over.
Matter of fact, let me get another drink here.
Give me one sec.
Yo, Shawty, you there?
Okay.
Give me a sec.
All right.
So I'm going to hit the gym after this bad boy.
So, all right.
I'm glad you guys are enjoying this.
I'm really, really glad you guys are enjoying this.
And I apologize for not showing the screen last time, but don't worry.
Like, I read the indictment for y'all, so no, no worries.
Okay, so now we're going to go over the actual evidence, okay?
So let me pull this up real fast.
Give me one second.
And guys, while we wait for me to pull this bad boy up, please do me a favor, like the video, man.
Subscribe to the channel because I'm telling y'all right now, nobody is giving a breakdown on this like I am.
Nobody to this level.
All right.
Now we're going to actually go over the evidence against Casanova.
Y'all saw the indictment.
So, you know what?
Quick, let me do a quick little recap with y'all.
So here's a recap.
We started with who is Casanova?
We broke down his music career.
We talked about his criminal history, two robberies, et cetera.
Then we broke down what the United Blood Nation is, and then a subset of the United Blood Nation was the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation, right?
Then we talked about who the leader of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation is, aka Dick Wolf, okay?
Dwight Reed, who the indictment is, as you guys can see, he was the number one in the indictment, which means that was the main guy.
That's the top dog.
Okay.
We talked about Dick Wolf's past, how he went to jail for murder for killing a dude over a girl, which is pretty stupid.
But hey, you know, you make your own choices.
And then we talked about how he's running the game from behind bars.
Then we talked about why the feds would even be interested in a case like this, broke that down.
Then I broke down what RICO laws are and the history of the RICO laws, how they came to formation in the United States.
Then we talked about the United States Attorney's press release.
We read it line by line, kind of to show you guys who actually did the case, how it was done, etc.
Then we read the indictment.
We broke it down, right?
Why the government harps on it being considered an enterprise, blah, blah, blah.
Then we talked about the different charges in there, right?
Which I broke down for y'all, the racketeering, whatever.
Now we're going to look at the actual evidence against our boy Casanova.
And as I drink my second energy drink, which these drinks don't have that much caffeine, it's only like 120 grams is not.
So what we're going to do here, I'm going to share screen with y'all.
I wasn't playing around when I told you guys I'm going to give you the most thorough breakdown of this.
So this is from allhiphop.com.
They did a fantastic job.
Shout out to them of talking about some of the evidence in the case, right?
So, and I broke this down for y'all already, right?
Because I had already known about this stuff prior to this, you know, who the Gorilla Stones are and the bloods and everything just from my past experience.
Okay.
So we talked about Dwight Reed, aka Dick Wolf, and then these are all the people, right, that are named in this indictment.
This guy right here, Erskine, right, they actually tapped this dude's phone.
So they got quite a bit of conversations from him, right?
And when you're wiretapping the top guy, you're going to hear conversations of him with all the other people.
Okay.
So that's what the feds typically do: they try to wiretap a guy either right below the top guy or right around the top guy so that they can get the best conversations.
Okay.
So let's go and skip over to Casanova because I ain't going to lie to y'all.
All these other dudes are cooked.
I read the charges against them.
And yeah.
So anyway, here we go.
Senior is a rapper of some notoriety using his public platform.
He has amplified the message of the gang both through his music and social media profiles.
For example, he appeared on a gang anthem this summer, Big Ape, which I showed you guys a music video for that.
That was the fat dude where they were, you know, running around with the chains and the flags and stuff, which was generally, which has garnered over 1.8 million views on YouTube since June 3rd.
Defendants Lester Thomas and Brene Thornton, aka Luxury, all appear in the music video alongside Defendant Reed are mentioned in the song's lyrics.
Remember how I told y'all the feds are looking at the here.
You know what?
Let's pull up this music video again for y'all.
Right?
And I haven't even, guys, I'm reading this for the first time right now with you guys.
I didn't even read this crap yet.
So how I told you guys, like, you know, they're going to want to look at the music videos to identify people.
All right.
So, hold on, let me hold on one second.
Let me pause this thing, make sure the music's off.
Oh, close it first.
All right.
Sorry about that.
Okay.
So, and I'll play this again for y'all so you guys can see what I'm talking about here.
Because as a Fed, I'm looking at this stuff, right?
Here's the music video again for y'all.
Right?
So you guys can see, right?
They shot in Harlem.
Red rags.
You can see, I think luxury is that is that chick right there in the back with the all red right?
So I'm a fed.
I'm watching this music video.
You know, I'm bobbing my head like, hey, this shit lit.
But at the same time, I'm pausing.
Oh, wait, who this?
Right?
Well, who's that in the back?
You know, who's that?
Who's that?
Because like I told you guys before, you always want to look at the people right around the rapper.
Those people are typically like those are people who are typically like the higher ups in the gang.
You know what I'm saying?
Because they want to be seen.
Right?
Here, I'll give you guys an example of this, right?
So let's do this.
This is how they got 6'9, right?
You go, Billy, right?
Let's go through a quick little thing here, right?
See, I'm going to look at this video to give you guys an example of another blood music video, right?
Yo, get some fire emojis in the chat if y'all like this, man.
I'm going to show you guys how the feds look at these goddamn music videos, man.
Like the video, subscribe to the channel.
Ain't nobody else doing this, man.
So, this is another similar video.
The reason why I'm playing Billy is because this is also a blood anthem, okay?
And Billy, guys, is a slang term to refer to members of the Nine Trey Blood.
So, boom.
Look, right off rip, you see Takashi, you see Shodi, okay?
High-ranking blood members, Nine Trey, right?
Throwing up gang signs, right?
And a couple, boom, right here.
This guy right here, that's Mel Murder.
That's one of the top bloods in the United States, guys, on the East Coast.
All right, here he is in the music video.
So he's around verified killers.
You know what I'm saying?
So, me as an investigator, I'm looking at this like, okay, let's see who's who, right?
So, bang.
I could already see, you know, a couple people here that might be of interest, right?
If I was an investigator on this case, that was Mel Murder right there with the Dreds.
There's Kuda B right here.
Here, look.
This dude right here in the black, Kuda B, that's the dude that shot a Chief Keefe.
I think that's Mel Murder right there, or it might be somebody else.
Um, you can see Billy Seco somewhere in here as well, right?
Yeah, see, there he is right there.
There's Billy Seiko.
See, this is how the feds are looking at these music videos, guys.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, they're looking at, like, okay, who's around them?
Bang.
And he has, and that's the thing.
Like, remember, guys, before Takashi got arrested by the feds, like, people didn't really mess with him because he had verified, like, real street dudes with him, as you can, as you guys can see.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, that was no cap.
He was really with these guys.
All right.
So that was just an example of how the feds would look at a music video.
Right?
So, someone said, Dry Snitcher.
Did you not know?
Do you not know what I used to do for a living?
What?
So, anyway, but yeah, I'm breaking it down for y'all how the feds look at these music videos.
So, anyway, cool.
So, let's pull up, go back and show the information as far as Cass's thing.
Where did I put the...
Um, give me one sec here, guys.
I'm pulling up the article that we were just looking at.
Okay.
Bam.
All right, can y'all see that?
Okay, yeah, you guys can perfect.
All right, so so I wanted to show you guys like how they look at music videos, right?
So, big ape, which has generated over 1.8 million views on YouTube since June 3rd.
Defendants Lester Thomas and Brene Thornton, aka Luxury, all appear in the video, and alongside defendant Reed, are mentioned in the song's lyrics.
In addition, he has used his Instagram page to pay homage to the gang, posting the below photos demonstrating his allegiance to Gorilla Stone.
Guys, this is what the feds do.
I told y'all, see, they're showing the chain with the red bandana of apes.
Here he is with an eight picture behind him, right?
So, and here's the thing that you guys got to understand: what the government's going to do when they do this is when he tries to get bail, which they use this against him, okay?
So, he put up a $2.5 million bail, Casanova, to get out, right?
Pending this case.
They would not give it to him based on interviews and based on his social media affiliation with the gang.
Basically, what the prosecution did was they painted Casanova as a violent gang member, right, that still has ties to them.
And they actually used a portion of the Nick Cannon interview that he did, okay, where he says he's still ape.
All right, and this is the video right here, too.
If you guys want to see, I'll find it for y'all real fast.
I got y'all, man, right?
They actually played the clip.
Still ape Casanova.
All right.
This is the interview right here.
I'm going to share the screen with y'all real fast.
I'm not going to play it because we might get hit with a copyright or whatever, but where is, got a lot going on here.
Let me close some of these tabs.
guys oh let me oh remove Okay.
So this one I'm going to add.
So share screen again.
Bear with me here, guys.
God damn it.
Where is it?
Oh, right here.
Okay, I'm muting it to make sure I don't get hit with the goddamn copyright.
All right.
So, because a lot of these interviews, like, they'll be like, oh, you can't do that.
All right.
Boom.
So this is the interview, guys, where he says he's still ape right here.
All right.
He asked him, hey, what's going on?
Because Cass basically ambiguously says, hey, you know, I separated myself, but I'm still ape, blah, blah, blah.
And they actually used it against him to show that he was still affiliated, man.
So the feds will use, you know, your own statements against you on public record to establish certain things, especially if you're a member of a gang.
You know what I'm saying?
And that's all they have to do.
They're going to say, oh, he's a flight risk, whatever.
And they were able to argue that point.
I think they should have let him out on bond because he put out a lot of money.
He was wanted.
And then he actually turned himself into the police.
The FBI put out a tweet saying, hey, we're looking for Casanova, whatever.
He was in Atlanta at the time.
He actually surrendered.
So all these things show that he was not, you know, he was willing to cooperate, but at least like not cooperate as in like snitch, but cooperate as far as like turn himself in and he's not a flight risk.
That's what you have to establish a lot of times.
And they still didn't want to give him the bond because of this stuff, you know, which kind of sucks.
I mean, the judge, I think, was a little tough on that.
Like, you know, he's a musician.
Like, he ain't going to run nine out of ten times.
He surrendered when he was in Atlanta and could have ran.
So anyway, that's a whole other thing.
I think he should have been let out on bond, but, you know, they almost never let you out on bond when it comes to these racketeering cases.
So anyway, let's keep going.
So, all right, so now here we go.
In addition, he has used Instagram page.
Okay, so we talked about his IG.
Senior has closely coordinated his artistic endeavors to benefit the gang.
For example, over recorded prison calls, the government has learned that the defendant Reed shares in some of seniors' earnings.
Okay, this is problematic, guys.
This is very problematic.
What the government's going to argue is that by Cass putting money on his books and claiming ape, he is directly helping the gang as far as furthering their criminal enterprise because he's paying money, right, to the top guy in jail to make sure he's good, right?
Which that money is typically probably a lot of the times is held in like a pool, whatever it may be.
So the government, right, is going to use that against him to show that he is supporting the game because he's giving money to the top guy, all right?
Second, senior has also relied on Gorilla Stone members for protection.
And why are Intercept's defendant Luster is recorded admitting that senior has called upon him to provide protection and firearms, hammers, while senior was traveling across the country.
Now, why is this significant?
Well, as you guys know, Casanova is a convicted felon and he's in the limelight.
He can't have guns around him.
So he's got to have goons around him that could help him.
Because, you know, obviously, Gorilla Stone, even though they're a big national gang, right?
They have sets in North Carolina, Florida, et cetera.
They're still ops and there's still people that are going to try to check him.
So he's got to move differently.
And he's a felon, so he can't have a gun, right?
Senior's pending robbery charge, the underlying conduct for which was captured on high-quality surveillance video in New York Supreme Court, provides a concrete example of how he has relied on gangs on the gang for acts of violence.
So this one is another event that's kind of troublesome here.
In clear surveillance video, taken from a diner in Manhattan in August 2018, Senior is seen lunging across the table for a victim's cell phone.
A scuffle ensues, and eventually a fellow Gorilla Stone member, Bobby Williams, places a victim in a chokehold until the victim loses consciousness and is dropped to the floor.
Now, what is this more than likely?
Probably some, you know, an annoying fan taking pictures and shit.
Cass probably got annoyed.
Hey, delete that fucking picture.
Don't post that shit.
Because the thing is, guys, and this happens a lot when you're around rappers, I've noticed this when me and Fresh interviewed them.
If you take a picture with them a lot of times and they're in the streets, a lot of them say, nah, bro, don't post it yet because they don't want people knowing where they're at.
Okay?
And, you know, obviously we respect that.
But, you know, a lot of rappers, you know what I'm saying?
They don't want people knowing where they're at.
So the person probably took a picture, was going to post on Instagram and say, hey, what are you doing?
And they grabbed the phone and the person wouldn't want to give the phone and all that.
That's, hey, man, that's going to be considered like robbery, pretty much.
And the person just grabbed him in a chokehold and gave him that.
And you already know what time it is from there.
Okay?
Second, senior has also personally committed acts of violence.
In addition to his current open robbery charge, Senior has twice been convicted of robbery in the first degree.
In public interviews, he admitted stabbing inmates while incarcerated on those charges.
And the government has recovered photos from his iCloud account of several farms demonstrating his continued access to weapons.
Now, again, they're trying to use his past against him, which kind of sucks, but this is what happens a lot of the times, right?
When you have a violent past.
And he admitted on the Vlad interview that he was giving people's Buck 50 in jail, slicing them up, which is why I was mentioning that to you guys before.
Now, here's the other thing, too.
Now, this is where the government's weak.
I'm going to admit, I'm going to have to say that the government on this one is kind of weak.
The government got pictures on his iCloud, right?
Pictures of guns on his phone.
But in none of the pictures, at least to my knowledge, with the evidence they have now, none of the pictures depict Casanova actually holding the guns, which is good.
None of them actually show him holding the guns.
Further, his defense is making the argument that the guns were prop guns in promotion of his song, something like the grip.
Okay?
So that's good.
That's good.
That they don't actually have the guns and the defense is on top of that saying they're prop guns.
All right?
But all the other stuff is not good.
Now, in addition to publicly promoting the gang and glorifying its activity, Senior is also a drug supplier for Gorilla Stone.
Through direct Instagram messages and iMessages obtained through search warrants, the government has learned that senior uses gang members, including both Nea Austin and Brandon Soto.
Remember, guys, those are the people we read about in the indictment before, AK Stacks, to sell drugs throughout New York.
Austin, as described above, and Soto, as described directly below, are two of the gang's most violent members and prolific drug dealers.
Senior faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison, and because of his prior violent felony convictions, is a career offender under the guidelines.
Senior is charged in the following counts.
Racketeering, narcotics conspiracy, possession of farms to further instant narcotics, and conspiracy and aiding and abetting the same.
So, and we'll talk about the murder one too.
Don't worry.
They gave him a superseding indictment earlier this year, which that one's another crazy one.
Guys, by the way, like the video.
So, now what they also got him on for, guys, is for, so you guys are wondering, like, what do you mean by narcotics, whatever.
So, Casanova was selling weed, and he was using his guys basically to help push the weed for him.
Now, here's the thing: weed is illegal in some states, but here's the problem: it's not illegal federally, guys.
You know what I'm saying?
Which is why they're going after him.
And then, on top of that, you know, the pictures with the guns and everything else, they're going to try to make it seem spin it as if he's a violent drug trafficker that's a felon that is peddling weed through the internet.
And again, remember, guys, he's using Instagram, using Instagram to communicate with his people.
What does that do?
That affects interstate commerce because it's online.
Okay?
So, see, this is where the feds are coming from as far as showing that he's affecting interstate commerce with his criminal activity.
All right.
So, that's what they have against Casanova.
They have a bunch of text messages.
They have him, you know, paying money to Dick Wolf, supporting him, promoting the gang, etc.
Right?
And then, on top of that, right?
But wait, there's more.
On top of that, they also got this.
So, here's a visitor ID, guys.
So, as you guys can show, see here, Cass went to go visit Dick Wolf on November 25th, 2020.
About a week after this, he was indicted, by the way.
Or no, he was indicted right around this time.
They didn't arrest him until in December.
The feds, so they put a bug at the Auburn Correctional Facility to eavesdrop on visits between the United States Gorilla Stones leader, Dwight Reed, aka Dick Wolf, and other members of the gang.
During one visit, a co-defendant named Walter Schells Luster told Reed a story about how Casanova accidentally shot a gun during a poker game in New York.
Luster continued to blab and revealed Casanova was always carrying a gun while he was in the streets.
Oh, shit!
Oh, shit!
Oh, shit.
They also recorded Casanova's conversations during numerous prison calls with the gang's leader.
The feds bug Casanova's visit to prison when he visited United Guerrilla Stone leader Dick Wolf.
Man, bro.
This is not good.
Okay.
Yeah.
And this is like I told you guys before.
He turned himself in.
I think he was indicted on November 23rd, 2020.
And then he turned himself in December 4th because they put it out on Twitter.
And yeah.
So what does this mean, guys?
They bugged the place.
So we got to talk about electronic surveillance real fast.
Okay.
I'm going to break down the difference for this on y'all.
So you have reasonable expectation of privacy, right?
This is pretty much the standard when it comes to searches.
So if you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in something, I have to apply for a search warrant to be able to go through it and search it.
Okay.
So when it comes to jail, however, right?
If I'm in, I'm in, let's say I'm in prison and y'all want to call me and tell me my podcast sucks, right?
Or whatever.
When you call me or I call you, the line tells you this phone call is now being recorded.
Okay.
And then bang, beep.
And at that point, everything you say is recorded and the government has access to it.
All right.
They record all jail calls coming in and out of the prison because you don't have, as a prisoner, you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy because you're on government ground, okay?
Having these conversations.
So no warrant is needed for that, right?
You could literally just subpoena Bureau of Prisons and listen to the phone conversations on any inmate.
Okay?
The feds have access to that.
Now, second, you got something called a search warrant.
All right.
And what they did was they did search warrants on a lot of these people's phones.
And when they did search warrants on the phones, they were able to find evidence, text messages, communications, et cetera, that revealed that these people were involved in criminal activity, right?
When they seize the phones, to include the idiot that shot at somebody down here in Miami and got Casanova indicted on a superseding indictment for conspiracy to commit murder, right?
So that's a search warrant.
Then you got level three, which is the most invasive, which is something called a Title III intercept.
Okay.
And a Title III intercept, guys, is when they're listening to real-time information.
That's when they're listening to your phones.
That's when they're bugging your house.
That's when they're bugging your house, listening to your phone, and intercepting your text messages, whatever.
Anything that's like real-time communication, I'm intercepting it as it's occurring.
It's considered Title III.
All right.
And what they basically did was, is they bugged the jail.
Now, I'd be interested to see if it was a Title III or if they got consent.
Okay.
Because if you get consent, you only need one party's consent, which means they don't need a Title III.
But if you don't have anyone's consent, you're actually listening to both of them talk, then, you know, then that you need a Title III.
But if one person is consensing, let's say I got an informant or a witness or whatever, and they're cooperating with me in the government, I bug him.
He goes and has a conversation and then bang, I got that evidence.
But to me, it sounds like it was a Title III, which means they bugged the room up, which is very difficult to do.
They need to establish that there's conversations in there that are being done that are conducted with criminal acts, talking about criminal activity, whatever.
So long story short, I'm skeptical, guys.
I don't think it was a Title III.
I think someone's snitching.
That's what I personally to be able to bug a jail cell room.
I think someone was cooperating.
Someone, at least in the beginning, because there's no way you're going to be able to bug up a room without someone cooperating because I'm going to say this.
Let's see here.
I'm trying to think how I'm going to say this in a way that isn't, that's public information.
Let's see here.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're like, oh, shit, what's going to happen?
All I'm going to say is this, all right, is to be able to do Title III intercepts and listen to people's phone, you need to establish that the phone or the location where you're bugging or whatever is prone to criminal activity being discussed at.
Okay?
You need to prove it.
Whether it's an informant, it's a snitch, it's a cooperating witness, etc.
You need to be able to build probable cause that this instrument, whether it's a room, a phone, a fucking typewriter, email, whatever it is, you need to establish that it's being used for criminal activity.
So yeah, this is all public shit, guys, that I'm talking about.
So don't worry.
That's how they got, I think it was John Gotti.
They bugged up his room, right?
So they had an informant.
This is how they took down John Gotti.
They had a room that they would have all their meetings at, right?
And there was a girl that was privy to this thing, to these meetings.
So what she did was she went in there, she listened to what they were saying, and what she did was she went back to the FBI and told them, hey, this is what I heard in these conversations.
They're using this room to have communication.
The FBI applied for a Title III bug to bug that room up based on her information, right?
And then they put the bugs in there, and then they were able to hear the conversation.
So to get a Title III, you almost always need some kind of source in there to be able to establish for you that criminal activity is being, say, afoot.
Okay?
So that's how a lot of these Title III slash bugs work.
All right.
Let's see here.
And that's all public information, by the way.
Let's see here.
I'm just looking at my notes here, making sure that I got everything for y'all.
And then we broke down.
Oh, okay.
Now, last thing that we're going to talk about now, and then we're going to open it up for questions, was Casanova getting, he just got superseded and indicted for murder.
Okay?
Right?
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull this up for y'all.
I'm trying to get the pictures of the text message conversation for you guys.
But the general facts of the case are this.
He was down here at King of Diamonds here in Miami, Florida, with a dude.
I think his name is like JC.
And he was taking pictures with fans.
And some guy walked up to Cass and said, hey, wrong gang sign, like wrong sign.
You know what I'm saying?
And Cass responded, kind of like a G, hey, you want to die tonight?
And at that point, this dude, JC, starts shooting at the guy.
And he injured two people.
He shot twice and he injured two people.
And the guy sent text messages to another blood gang member saying, yo, I ended up killing two idiots yesterday or some shit like that.
We're in the news.
And then he found out that they didn't end up dying, but he was like, hey, I don't miss.
And he was kind of like bragging about the text messages, which is not the most intelligent thing you can do.
But let me see here.
Let me see here.
I'm trying to make sure that.
Okay, so, okay.
So I got some text messages here for you guys.
So, okay, let's go back real quick.
Let me share this stuff with you guys real fast of what the government has.
All right.
So here are some text messages, right?
That their government is going to use against Cass, right?
I'm under Dick Wolf, the GF of all apes.
Bang, this is 2019.
All right.
Establishes that he's part of the gang.
This is from Cass.
Two, first and foremost, hope the message reaches you all in good health, both mentally as well as physically as we approach the end of the summer.
We are having an end of the summer mandatory WOW BBQ basketball tournament on Saturday, August 22nd, starting at 3 p.m.
New Rochelle Flower City Park.
This is a mandatory event and must, and all must be in attendance.
Okay, guys, translation.
We're having a meeting.
You motherfuckers better show up.
We're going to talk about some business.
And if you don't, it's going to be a problem.
All must be in attendance.
All no shows will be taken as a direct act of disrespect and you will be wiped down immediately, aka violation, gang violation.
You'll get your ass whooped.
We're asking for all contributions to this event to be given to Donnie Love slash Shell's ASAP.
That's another person named in the indictment, aka gang dues.
We are not allowing any politics or violence, so please leave all that home or you will be felt with accordingly.
I think he means dealt with accordingly.
So please come in peace and ready to have a good time with your family with all that we have been through with the epidemic and summer of violence.
We need brotherly and sisterly love.
The 555th AV new Rochelle.
So bang.
What is this?
Guys, in code, this is him telling him we got a gang meeting.
All y'all got to show up.
Okay?
We refer to it as a barbecue.
Here we go.
Iron playing, sis.
I'm putting this ape shit map worldwide.
Big bro gun be happy when he sees it.
LOL, you got to send him a picture talking about Dick Wolf.
And then bang.
So these are some of the text messages that the government has showing his alliance to the gang.
Okay?
Which is not good.
Right?
Now, the other thing I'm going to do, I'm going to show y'all.
I'm trying to find the text messages for you guys as far as the murder.
Oh, let me show you guys some of these pictures that they're using as well.
So, you know what?
Here, let me just share this whole tab with y'all.
Because these guys did a really good job.
Shout out to all hip-hop.
They did a really good job of consolidating all the evidence in one place.
But I'll break it down.
So here you go.
Here's Casanova, right?
LA, marijuana, right?
Legal in California, but still legal federally, right?
It's advertising his marijuana stuff.
Here's some pictures he had on his phone.
Right?
The feds are going to use that, guys.
Hold on, let me move this over here.
This tab.
Can y'all see that?
Let me.
Hold on.
Let me open up.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Y'all can see.
Okay.
And then this is the 2.5 million bail package.
let me see if we can find the text here um oh yeah This is the visit record here that I showed y'all earlier.
Here are the pictures of the guns that the government is using.
Again, they don't show him holding the guns.
It's just his Instagram account, which is good.
And then Gripped Up is the name that is a song.
And his defense, actually, his defense attorney, Casanova's defense attorney, isn't bad.
He argued that this is all in promotion of a song, which is good.
And he argued they're prop guns.
Obviously, the government thinks otherwise, but the defense job isn't to prove it.
It's just to make cast a little bit of reasonable doubt.
That's all they got to do.
And then I'm trying to find the text messages, man, between him and this guy, which I'm going to pull these up.
So, guys, feel free to start asking some questions here.
I know I got like one in the queue right now.
Here, text message conversation.
Casanova murder conversation, right?
Murder text.
And the thing that sucks, and here's the thing.
He might be able to beat those text messages because the thing with those text messages is the other idiot did most of the talking, right?
Okay, so here we go.
So I'm going to share this screen with y'all real fast.
Let me move this tab over.
All right.
God damn it.
So I can show you guys what I'm working with here.
Right?
Okay, bang.
Okay.
Now it's enlarged.
All right, let's share screen here.
Thank you for bearing with me, by the way, guys.
All right.
So I'm going to enlarge this bad boy for y'all.
This is the guy.
He goes, killed a nigga last night.
SMH.
Some neighborhood Crip nigga.
We outside the strip club and Cass was taking pics with the niggas and Crip nigga going to grab his hand and say wrong sign, homie.
Cass asked him, you want to die tonight?
I, damn, it's blocked here.
I said, I went to my hip and I just booked.
Everyone got missing.
Onik started off and let another one got hit jit in the stomach.
Hashtag good aim.
And sorry, guys, I apologize for, I can't really read because all this, this hip-hop thing is freaking, it's blocking it.
Okay.
Oh, yeah, there we go.
Bam.
And bigger.
So he goes, Cass asked him, you want to die tonight?
He reached on his hip and I just booked him.
Everyone got missing.
Onix skirted off and I let another one go, hit JI in the stomach.
Hashtag good aim.
Yeah, I mean, at this point, you know what I'm saying?
It's just like, it's just comedy at this point, right?
So let me see if they had another thing.
Okay.
And then he goes.
It's on the news.
Two of them.
I only shot twice, meaning I ain't miss a shot.
Greatest shot in the world.
You trying to challenge me?
Guys, man.
Miami Club shooting.
My mom just showed me the clip.
That's a fact.
Back to KOD we go.
LOL.
King of Diamonds, which is where the shooting happened.
And then, bam, now is the new...
This is the new count right here.
I saw with a dangerous weapon and Ada racketeering Thomason Sr. at times relevant in this indictment.
Gorilla Stone is described in paragraph one through seven.
Remember how we were going through that indictment?
And this is the new charge that they got hit with, the superseding indictment, as far as using a weapon, you know, because he shot at a crip, right, that was trying to challenge Cass's authority, right?
Try to sun him and he got shot.
So the dude, the shooter, basically admitted to it on text message.
And yeah, that is definitely no bueno.
So, okay.
So, number one, like the video, guys, okay?
Number two, subscribe to the channel and also like the video because I don't think anyone else has given more of a breakdown than that.
Now, let me look at my notes, make sure I covered everything.
Let's see here.
Yep, he's definitely shouted.
Also, I want to let you guys know that Feddy Luciano video that I showed y'all.
Let me bring it back up one more time because remember, the government's using all of this right now, right?
So Freddy Lucino featuring Casanova, what we doing, right?
So I'm going to fast forward it because the government's going to use this too, probably, right?
Boom.
Hold on.
So let me share the screen with y'all.
Because this is what the government is going to do as well.
They're going to say, not only, because look, see, obviously, as you guys can see the music video, right?
Let me move this thing over to the side.
Right?
Open up.
Okay.
As y'all can see here in the music video, right?
Right?
He's here with the Crips, walking around with Kanes and everything, which we talked about before.
And like I explained to you guys earlier, in New York, it's very common for Bloods and Crips to be friends.
And, you know, they'll all be under like an umbrella gang.
You know what I'm saying?
But they're different gangs, if that makes sense.
Like the Wu, Pop Smoke, and his crew, there's Bloods and there's Crips in there aligned to go after the gangster disciples, a.k.a.
the Choes, right?
So in New York, it's very common for different gang members from different gangs to be under all one umbrella because they might be from the same housing project or whatever, right?
So here, they're going to say, obviously, this shows gang activity, right?
This shows gang affiliation.
Bang.
Red bandanas, all that other stuff.
That's pretty easy.
But look at this.
Oh, there for free Dick Wolf.
Okay?
I mean, what does that tell you?
You know what I'm saying?
Like, okay, Dick Wolf, leader of the untouchable Gorilla Stones, right?
And then they say free a couple other people.
These are all gang members, right?
Throwing up the C's.
Free Bobby.
This is before Bobby Shmurda got released, right, 2019.
And for y'all that don't know, Bobby Shimurta got hit with a state indictment case, state RICO indictment case for organized crime with the G-Stone Crips, which Freddy Luciano is a member of.
So, you know, all these people that they're saying free are verified gang members, right?
So the government is going to use this guy to establish that not only is a member of the gang, he answers to Dick Wolf.
His text messages show he's answers Dick Wolf.
I showed you guys a picture of him and Dick Wolf together.
Dick Wolf has already been identified as the top guy for the Gorilla Stone Nation.
They bugged his room when he was having meetings with different gang members.
The gang members spoke about criminal activity that Senior was involved in, a.k.a.
Casanova.
Like, see how this all paints a picture?
You know, he's in music videos with other Gorilla Stone members.
You know what I'm saying?
Talking about the gang, et cetera.
You can see the gang members in the music videos.
The feds use all this to establish that they are an enterprise and they're working with each other to increase the standing of the gang.
Okay?
Shooting at people in Miami that might check them.
All of this.
So this is what sucks about being involved in the game because now the feds can hit you with Rico, which is a broad stroke charge.
Hey, you remember the gang?
You did this.
That's considered racketeering.
Right?
Okay.
So we went over all the evidence.
I hope you guys enjoyed that.
Like the video.
2,300 of you guys in here right now.
I don't think anyone else is going to break down that case as extensively as I just did just now.
But I love doing it for you guys.
So my predictions, what's going to happen if Casanova doesn't cooperate with the government, there's a very high likelihood he's going to die in prison.
And the reason why is because they have very serious charges against him, guys.
Like very, very serious.
And just so y'all know, I'll show you guys exactly what they're hitting him with.
I'm going to share the screen with y'all.
All right.
As y'all can see, right?
Here he is, Caswell Sr., right?
Here's his attorney.
His attorney's actually pretty good.
I ain't going to lie.
I listened to him arguing some things.
But they're handing him a racketeering three counts, conspiracy, distributed control substance, violent crime, drugs, machine gun, conspiracy, distributed control substance, right?
The 924C, which I told y'all before about, right?
Possession of firewall committing a drug trafficking offense.
Assault, attempts to conspire, Miami assault, violent crimes, et cetera.
So he's facing a lot.
And here's his case docket, by the way, guys.
The indictments, memo of endorsement.
This is what you go on, when you go on PACER, this is how you look at the entire case, right?
Sentencing, submission, et cetera.
So if he takes this to trial, which I think he might try to do, there's a very high likelihood he's going to lose.
Because like I told you guys before, and that's why I made sure to systematically break down, this is Casanova, this is criminal history.
He's a part of this gang, which is a part of the United Blood Nation, which is considered an enterprise in the eyes of the U.S. government, etc.
They're going to get him on the racketeering.
That's done.
They're going to get him on the racketeering because all they have to really do is that he's committing these activities in furtherance of the gang, which we are.
I already just showed you guys all the messages that show that this is all in furtherance of the gang and he's supporting the main guy financially.
So they're going to get him on the racketeering.
The 924C, which is, you know, possession of a firearm while committing a drug trafficking offense, that's going to be a little bit harder because the feds are going to have to prove that he actually had possession of the guns.
And I listened to the defense argue that, hey, these are prop guns, whatever.
They might be able to get that one, you know, squashed.
But the reason why the government, the government, a lot of the times, here's the thing y'all got to understand.
The government's going to throw the book at you and get you to plead to at least a couple of the charges.
So even if they can't prove the 924C, they don't care.
They're throwing it at you because they're like, yo, we know that this charge carries a significant penalty and you're more likely to want to cooperate with us because of the potential time that you're looking at.
And remember, the feds scare everybody because they don't lose.
Okay.
They have like a 95% conviction rate, especially the Southern District of New York.
They're a very good U.S. attorney's office.
So that alone is going to have them very scared to go to trial.
So they're going to get him on the racketeering.
That's done.
Okay.
Now, with the drug trafficking, they might get him on that too.
Because again, they have the Instagram messages where he's literally telling members of the gang, hey, I need you to sell this weed for me.
And again, weed is illegal statewide, right?
As you guys can see, those pictures were all in Los Angeles decriminalizing California.
But he's using Instagram to facilitate drug trafficking, which affects what?
Interstate commerce?
And guess what?
Marijuana is still illegal federally.
Done.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's not looking good for the racketeering charges and then for the drug trafficking charges.
Now, the felon of the possession of a firearm and commission of a drug trafficking crime, they might be able to beat that because they don't have him actually holding the gun.
The other thing that's troublesome, the attempted murder.
So that one, I think he could beat as well.
He's going to need to establish that he did not tell JC to shoot at the guy.
You know what I'm saying?
But here's the other thing.
They have all this evidence that shows that Cass goes, you know, he travels with his team.
He's with those guys.
They have messages of him saying, hey, you know, I need protection, blah, blah, blah.
All this other stuff because he's obviously a celebrity.
He ain't going to go nowhere by himself.
And yeah, he's going to have security, but he's going to have his boys with him too.
So they're going to establish that JC acted in the way that he did, right?
JC acted in the way that he did to protect Casanova, who was a figurehead of the gang to promote the gang's, how do I say the status?
Because you can see in the text, he's like, oh, I shot at some Krip nigga.
that was trying to tell cast what to do it doesn't get any more clear than that It doesn't get any more clear than that, bro.
That a criminal act was done.
A violent criminal act was done.
You know, literally, I mean, you could have just wrote one plus one equals two on that bad boy.
You know what I'm saying?
It doesn't get any more clear than that, that that crime was committed in furtherance of letting everyone know, don't fuck with Gorilla Stone.
We're untouchable.
So it's not looking good, bro.
The only thing I could see, like I said, he's going to have to cooperate.
And here's the thing, too.
He even mentioned it on a breakfast club interview, which you know what?
I'll show it to you guys real fast.
I got all the, I did a lot of research for this thing.
So I'm thinking of things that I was not going to put in the presentation, but fuck it.
I might as well.
But I want to give y'all all the sauce.
But he went on the breakfast club, right?
And he said, yo, if you're a millionaire successful, right?
You're going to tell.
Right?
And I'm not going to play it because Breakfast Club, I think they have some pretty strong copyright too.
But I'll show you guys the video at least so y'all can watch it if you want.
Right?
Casanova, if you catch a Rico charging the feds off you 20 years, you're telling, right?
Now, that's personally what I think he has to do to be able to get out of this.
He's going to have to cooperate against Dick Wolf.
Fortunately for Casanova, okay, so let's talk about the charges and how he can possibly get out of this.
Casanova is in a unique position where he's high enough to know intricate details of the organization's inner workings, but he's also low enough where the feds don't necessarily care about him.
This is where Takashi found himself when he was hit with the gang charges.
He was high enough where he knew everything, right?
Because of his money and his status, right?
Even though he wasn't like a verified blood, he was running around with the top guys.
I showed you guys in the Billy music video.
He's there with Mel Murder and Billy Seiko, all these other guys that are shoddy.
These guys are higher ups in the blood organization.
So because of his status and fame with the money, he was involved and knew these guys.
So he was party to incriminating information.
So he was able to cooperate with the government because he was in that sweet spot where he's in the middle.
He has people above him that he could tell on.
Then he has people below him that he could tell on.
Like Kuda B, who, you know, he paid $10,000 for him to go shoot at Chief Keefe, right?
So that's one thing.
Now, with Casanova, the difference is Casanova is Casanova is actually a member of the gang.
He's not like, you know, just a rapper.
He's actually in there.
He's done work, whatever.
They respect him and he has some rank.
So he's in the middle where he's underneath these other guys, right?
Like Erskine or whatever, these other guys I showed you in the indictment, but he's also close enough to Dick Wolf to know the inner workings and he's paying him money.
And he has a bunch of people below him that are with him at all times, like this JC guy who got in the shooting, right?
So he smacked that in the middle.
So he's in a position where he could cooperate and give information.
Because obviously the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation is huge.
They have sets all over the country.
So he would be able to cooperate and help.
And he'd be able to put an easy, stronger case against Dick Wolf and help himself.
Here's the thing, though.
No one Casanova, he ain't going to tell.
He ain't going to tell.
He's going to keep it solid.
He ain't going to tell.
He's going to do the time.
You know, I personally don't think he's going to tell.
So, and that's the only way that I foresee he's going to get a significant amount of time taken off because he's in that position where he's in a perfect position to cooperate with the government, but I don't think he's going to do it.
I just don't think he's going to do it.
So, what I foresee with these charges, they're going to get him on the racketeering for sure.
They're going to get him on the drug trafficking for sure.
Bro, he's going to do at least the mandatory minimum is going to be between 15 to 20.
He might do more because the counts and then his criminal history.
Remember, guys, the other thing that scares me about this is that he's going to be considered a career criminal.
Okay?
He's going to fall.
He's done enough time with the state where they're going to, when they go to sentence him, his two burglaries and the amount of time he spent in prison, they're going to consider him a career criminal when it comes to sentencing.
So they'll be able to enhance it even more.
So he's going to get slapped with the Rico charges and he's going to get slapped with his criminal history.
So he's going to get a lot of points on that.
Then he's going to get slapped again with the career criminal edition.
That's why I'm so concerned.
But he can get himself out of this because of where he is.
But he's going to have to, if he were to cooperate, he would probably have to go into witness protection.
100%.
You know what I'm saying?
He would have to go into witness protection, but he ain't going to tell.
I know he's not.
He's solid.
He's done prison time.
He's not scared to go in jail.
Guys, when he was in jail, he was beating people up and all that shit.
He was running the jails.
You know, he kept ASAP Rocky from getting fucked up a few times.
So he's not scared of prison.
Obviously, he did all his time state.
Feds is a different story, but it doesn't matter.
And he's a member of the Bloods, which, you know, the prison system is run by the Bloods anyway.
A lot of federal prisons are run by Bloods.
So he's going to be good in there.
You know, and he has money.
So he's going to be able to, you know, have money in his commissary, everything else like that.
But he has a daughter, man.
He has a family.
So, you know, that's got to be weighing down on him a lot.
But the feds, you know, I know some people are saying, like, nah, they don't really got a case against him.
It's weak, blah, blah, blah.
But they got a case against him because the charges that they're coming at him for are extremely broad, specifically for these types of crimes.
So he's going to do a lot of time.
He's going to do a lot of time.
They might not get him on the 924C, which is the felon in possession, the possession of firearm while committing a drug trafficking offense, but they're going to get him on the racketeering 100%.
And that's honestly one of the worst ones to get hit on.
Because he's already established through his music, his text messages, his conversations, setting up meetings, all that other stuff, that he is an active member of the gang.
So anyway, that's my prediction.
Let's hit some of these questions here.
So, guys, if you guys got questions, go ahead and hit me with them.
Hit that goddamn like button because ain't nobody going to give y'all a breakdown that in-depth of racketeering on the internet.
That's a fact.
Nobody.
I see that there's a lot of YouTube channels out there, you know, that are, you know, it's lawyers reacting and everything, which is fantastic.
Go subscribe to my man.
Criminal lawyer reacts, Bruce Rivers, fantastic, great guy.
We might do a collab in the future.
But as far as like a Fed breaking it down from the investigator's perspective for y'all, no one else on the internet is doing this.
All right, so let's start answering questions.
12 a.m., five bucks.
Hey, Martin, did you ever investigate the CDN while working in Laredo?
And will you ever do a cartel breakdown?
Thanks for always sharing your knowledge.
Yes, I did, my friend.
You're referring to the Cartel del Noreste.
Yes, I did.
I did cases on them, priorly known as the Losetas.
Yes, I did.
That was actually a big part of the cases that I did.
And I will definitely talk to you guys about Mexican cartels.
That's one of my specialties, especially in the Laredo, Nueva Laredo, Tamilipas area.
So that is what I specialized in.
So I can definitely do a case on that for y'all with Mexican cartels in the future.
Isaac J. Smooth, five bucks.
Can you do a breakdown on Operation Fast and Furious?
Yes, I absolutely can.
For some of you guys that are probably wondering, what the fuck is Operation Fast and Furious?
That was an operation done by the ATF Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms.
Basically, what they did was they bought a bunch of guns.
They let, excuse me, they didn't buy lunch guns.
They basically let criminals get a hold of a bunch of guns and they let the guns go into Mexico, thinking that they were going to be able to trace it back and figure out who was getting the guns, but it ended up backfiring.
They weren't able to trace the guns.
And all those guns that got into Mexico were used in criminal activity in Mexico and actually led to the death of Jaime Zapata, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, HSI.
And he was actually from Laredo, guys.
I worked with a lot of his colleagues.
You can Google it.
Jaime Zapata, he was killed in February of 2011 or 2012.
And one of the guns that killed him was a gun that was from Operation Fast and Furious, which the ATF got a lot of heat on.
I'd be happy to break that down for y'all.
And a matter of fact, Fast and Furious, like, fucked up all, like, it made it very difficult to do gun trafficking cases because you can't let them walk.
You can't let guns walk anymore.
You know what I'm saying?
Used to be able to let them walk to some degree, but now it's like they're super strict on that shit because of that blunder.
Let's see here.
Viking Paradigm wasn't a meeting, but I'm here now.
Loving the law enforcement content, my man.
Keep up the awesome work.
Thank you, Viking.
And then someone had a question here, which I took a picture of.
Let me answer.
It was actually a very good question.
Let's see here.
Just going through the super chats here, guys.
Want to make sure that I don't miss none of y'all because I know I went, I covered a lot of ground on that Casanova case.
Do you think you would do a collab with 600 Breezy or Kodak discussing their cases?
Maybe like a pseudo-inview slash breakdown?
If they want, I don't think they'd want to do that, though.
And the thing with 600, he got hit with state charges.
Kodak got hit with a federal gun charge, which basically what happened with Kodak was he lied on the FFL, which is when you buy a gun in the United States at a gun store, you have to fill out a form where asks you, like, hey, have you ever been under indictment?
Are you a convicted felon?
Blah, blah, blah.
And he said no when he really was.
So that right there, bam, easy.
Like you lied on the forum.
That's 1,001 charge, which is false statements.
Okay, so the other question that someone gave, which is a fantastic question, is if two federal agencies are working two independent cases and that turns out to be a part of the same conspiracy, which federal agency will have superiority to take over the case?
Fantastic question.
This happened to me all the time when I was on the job.
You'll be investigating a guy and then you'll find out someone else is also looking at that guy or looking at someone that is involved with your guy, a co-conspirator, whatever.
And so there's two ways that this typically happens.
Either normally, right, you contact that agent, you figure out, you know, through like a deconfliction service or whatever.
You find out that he's also looking at this person.
And you contact that agent.
Hey, man, I hear you're looking at such and such.
I'd like to, you know, I'm looking at him too.
We've been working on whatever this amount of time and we got this and this, you know, and that's kind of where you, you don't want to put all your cards on the table and tell them, like, I got informants, all this other shit.
You don't want to do all that, but you want to like set up a meeting.
And what you do is you, you know, whether you meet up with that agent at his office or your office, whatever it is, I think it's important.
You should bring your supervisor with you.
You go in and y'all just have a meeting and discuss your investigation.
They discuss theirs.
And hopefully they're going to be transparent with you and tell you what they got and what you got.
And you guys can come together and work together.
Now, does that always happen?
No.
A lot of this, especially like, you know, some agencies are terrible to work with.
Like, I know, like, for example, like DEA has a very bad habit of doing this where they'll do a case and they won't share no information with you.
They'll be like, nah, I don't want to work with you, whatever.
And the reason why is because DEA, for them to get their GS-13, it's competitive, which means they basically have to like, they get a GS-12, which gets them, earns them about 70, 75K per year, 80K per year.
But to get a 13, that's when they're going to hit the 100,000 per year.
They need to establish that they do big cases.
So if it's a DEA agent that isn't a 13, nine out of 10 times, they're going to be selfish and not want to work with you because they want to have the case themselves so they can like indict it, put it in their, you know, write it up in their promotion package and, you know, get their shit.
But it depends on the agent.
If he's a DE agent, he's a 13, he's not going to give a fuck.
Be cool.
You know, it depends on the agent himself and who he works for.
Like, FBI, sometimes it's tough.
You know, they're annoying to work with a lot of times because they classify fucking everything when it's not classified, which is hilarious to me.
I've had it before.
Bro, I've given them information before, right?
And then I'll go back and ask for that information.
And then they'll look at me and say, oh, that's classified.
I'm like, what?
Like, what?
Stupid.
I gave you the info.
Fuck you talking about.
So, whatever.
That's a whole other thing.
I could make jokes on FBI all day.
But yeah, so that's typically how those cases work when you're looking at the same target and there's overlap.
You know, you want to come together and work.
And actually, I had a really big drug case, organized crime case that started off like that where we were looking at Lan King gang members and, you know, and I ended up finding out that this FBI agent was also looking at them.
And I worked with him and we just shared information the whole time.
We worked really close because he was in San Antonio.
I was in Laredo.
So I was identifying gang members on the on the, you know, on the southern, south Texas, like on the border.
And then he was looking at the guys over there in the San Antonio area.
And we're just combining information and working together and it ended up being really cool.
So, you know, it depends on the agent, man.
Some guys are cool.
Some guys are assholes.
It is what it is.
But that's typically how it goes when you have an overlap on targets.
Penalties for messaging death threats via text message or online social media.
Don't do that, my friend.
There's a lot of state charges that can hit you with something called terroristic threats.
So don't do that.
Don't be an idiot.
Don't put anything on text.
If anything, you should learn right now from this case breakdown.
Why you shouldn't put anything on text?
Kevin Carballo, 105 bucks.
Do you think you would do a collab?
Oh, no, read that one already.
Any other questions, guys?
Super chat in your questions.
This is the QA portion.
If not, I'm going to can this thing, go get a workout.
You know, because like I said, I woke up like literally at 7:45, like 8:45 right before this thing.
Let me look at the thing.
Let's see the engagement here.
We got almost 23.
You got 100 of you guys in here.
So do me a solid, goddammit.
And like the, oh, we got 2.4k likes.
Okay.
All right.
Engagement is lit.
I can't even ask for likes.
Y'all lit.
Crazy engagement.
Oh, somebody asked, you should break down Push Icke case.
I got you.
I'll do the Push Icke case, guys.
Because he actually pled guilty.
So now it's pretty much done and we can talk about that.
I'll read the criminal complaint with y'all and everything on that Push Ice case.
I might do that this week for you guys.
That one's easy.
I might do that one for this week for you guys.
Because I've been preparing for the K-Flock one, but I'm waiting.
Oh, because yeah, someone's saying next K-Flock.
Guys, I'm going to do the K-Flock one.
Don't worry.
I know a lot of you guys came in recently.
The reason why I wasn't able to do the K-Flock is because he had an arraignment on January 4th, and I was waiting to get the court paperwork for it so I can have the most updated information.
But I do have this, which I haven't seen anybody else with this.
Okay, it's public information.
It's not like I got a secret or whatever, but I knew where to look to get this stuff.
But it's a criminal complaint against K-Flock, right, for the murder charge that he's currently facing.
So we're going to break this complaint down.
You know, this bad boy with y'all.
So I got you guys.
Definitely going to break that one down too.
Let's see here.
Is Cass in Fedders State Prison?
He's in Fed, guys.
He's in Fed.
Cas Nova, is he done?
Yeah, unfortunately, yeah, because I know he's going to keep it solid.
I know he's not going to talk.
And guys, support Casanova, man.
Go listen to his music.
He actually makes very good music, which actually is why it hurt me to do this goddamn breakdown.
You know, I put a Spotify link below, man.
Go support his music, man.
You know, they get paid off the streams.
So help him out, bro.
Because I ain't going to lie.
They should have let him out on bond.
But, you know, given racketeering charges, the judge just isn't going to do it.
And then someone's asking about my background.
Yes, guys, I used to be a special agent homeland screen investigations.
I resigned over a year ago.
It was a fantastic career.
I loved it.
But, you know, obviously I couldn't work for Uncle Sam and do the podcast at the same time.
Why is Gotti called Teflon Don?
You can ask a bunch of people swimming with the fishes on that one why they call him that.
Let's see here.
I'm just going through here.
You want another mod in here?
I got you.
Can you want to guys give Viking a mod a wrench, please?
Dude, D Thang, Casey, a New York rapper.
Yeah, I know who D Thang is.
That's K-Flock's cousin, blood cousin, actually.
I might, yeah, I mean, he's going to get involved.
I'll talk about him when I do the K-Flock case.
I'd love to interview Carolina Hermes.
Thank you for the support, Carolina Hermes.
Any white-collar crimes?
Yeah, we could break down white-collar crime cases too, guys.
I have no problem with that.
We could talk about the Jordan Belfort case if y'all want.
You know, Martha Stewart.
Talk about that one.
They got her on fucking 1001, which is false statements.
That's like the catch-all charge right there.
Ninja Watcher number 372.5 bucks.
I want to get something for home protection.
I don't have any experience with a Blicky, but do you think that's the best thing for home protection?
Yes, man.
Get a gun, protect yourself, learn firearm safety, and you'll be good, my friend.
Matthew Jaffero, for a future pen tester, should I worry about any government agencies?
For a future pen tester?
What do you mean, pen tester?
Let me know what that means.
I don't know.
I've never heard of that.
Isaac Jason with five bucks.
Were you in the show Border Town Laredo, or was that before your time down there?
It was short-lived, but good.
I know that they were filming at the time.
I was down there on the border, but I don't think they caught me on camera.
But they weren't in Laredo when I was down there filming.
Because I remember they put out like a memo, everybody.
Hey, this TV channel wants to do a special on it.
Deutorian Med case, all right.
I'll break that one down.
I'll break that one down for y'all.
How do the feds catch cybercrime such as dark web crimes?
That's bro.
I mean, there's a so the two agencies that do the most cybercrime are HSI and FBI.
And, you know, yeah, bro, they're out there on the black web doing, you know, child exploitation, Silk Road, all that shit.
They're doing those investigations for sure.
I never did cyber crimes.
You know, personally, I'm not looking at, I'm not going to sit there and look at like, you know, CP, if you know what I'm saying.
You know, I don't want to get hit with the YouTube algorithms, but yeah, child exploitation.
Like, I don't, I, I never did those cases.
I didn't like it.
So, um, but I would always be on the arrest teams for them.
So whenever a guy came into town or whatever to try to do some weird shit with some kids, he was talking with undercover, I'd always be on the arrest team to go get them.
But I never actually did the investigations.
I can't stomach that shit.
No, you know what I'm saying?
That shit was terrible.
I specialized in drugs, weapons, and organized crime in general.
You know, and I did like the Mexican cartel cases a lot of time.
Minister Jap Network, $20.
This is dope, bro.
I love what you're doing.
Educate the streets before they get in too deep.
Facts, bro.
You know, everybody else is going to look at me like, oh, yeah, yo, snitch, whatever.
But in reality, guys, if you pay attention to this stuff, you're going to learn how to not be an idiot and keep off the streets, guys.
It ain't worth it.
Like, you guys just saw, like, look, like, a great musician is now getting in trouble over some dumb shit, man.
Like, guys.
So protect yourself, gentlemen.
And Minister Jap, down to market, are you, my friend?
Okay, let's see what else we got here.
Yeah, I could talk about that one.
I'm also going to do a collab, guys, with Andrew Esquire.
We're going to break down one of those FBI militia cases.
I think in Michigan it was.
So I'm going to go on his channel and talk about that on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
So shout out to him, Andrew Esquire.
Penetration testing for cybersecurity, like example, would be CCP breaching large corporations with government contracts for $3 billion of IP.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, they're always bringing in government contractors that are go with computers, bro.
So yeah, you can absolutely get a gig doing that.
Absolutely.
Explore Miami, $2.
How do you see the young boy case going?
I talked about this with DJ Academics.
They're going to get him, bro.
He's going to convict him of felon and possession.
They got him on, and I'll break that case down in more detail, but long story short for y'all.
So here are the facts.
Basically, there was a phone call.
Like, there was a complaint.
The police called that there was a disturbance going on in the area.
Young boy and his boys were shooting a music video.
Police show up.
They run from the scene, but they leave the camera with SD card in it.
They look in the camera and SD.
They see young boy holding guns.
They get the guns.
They find out that they're real weapons.
They see that young boy is a convicted felon.
Can't be in possession of firearms.
And then bang, they indict him out of Louisiana.
He's in California.
They find him.
They arrest him.
And he tried to flee while the police were going after him.
And he had a gun in the car.
So that could be another potential charge.
So they're going to get him for found in possession 100%.
It's just a matter of like if he pleads guilty, how much time he's going to get, et cetera.
So, yeah.
So I foresee him potentially doing jail time, unfortunately.
His music is great, too.
It's always the good ones that get in trouble, bro.
Why can't these sorry rappers go to jail, bro?
Like, why is it the good ones that always get in trouble?
They really be living their reps, I guess.
Pen tester equal, Red Hat Hacker.
I am working on CISP certification to move from 120 to 250k.
Yeah, man, the feds might pick you up.
You know what I'm saying?
You just got to get a clearance.
Make sure you got a clean background.
You're not on some weird shit, and they'll pick you up.
Let's see here.
Say it with me.
Interstate commerce.
Yeah, man.
Guys, it's not hard for them to prove interstate commerce, man.
Internet, phones, text messaging.
Man.
Let's see here.
Okay.
Cool.
And then let me make sure I got all these chats covered.
Cool, man.
All right, guys.
I think we're going to can it there unless any other last-second questions come in.
Yeah, guys, crime doesn't pay at all, man.
Guys, don't get in trouble.
If anything from this breakdown, you know, what you could take away from this is don't get involved with the gangs, guys.
You guys can see.
If Casanova wasn't a gang member, these would be bullshit charges and he would beat them.
But the fact that it's a gang Rico case, they're able to lump him in with all these other idiots that he might not even know like that because of he's claiming Guerrilla Stone Nation, man.
That's the problem, guys.
So don't join a gang.
Stay out of trouble.
If you're going to commit a goddamn crime, do it yourself, okay?
You know, you don't want to get hit with these conspiracy charges, goddamn it.
And yeah, man, guys, protect yourselves.
Don't get in trouble, man.
It's really, it's really not worth it.
So, yeah.
Oh, last one here.
Brandon Bradshaw.
Have a clean background, be in shape and get your cybersecurity certification to government will 100% want you.
FBI specifically wants you.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just don't get in trouble, guys.
Moody Blues, will you ever do a politician case?
Yeah, I could do a breakdown of a politician case, you know, of public corruption for sure.
So before I get off air, guys, give me, I want y'all in the comments right now.
Tell me, what do you guys want me to cover on the next episode?
Do you guys want K-Flot?
Do you guys want Epstein?
Do you guys want, you know, what do you guys, what do you guys want?
I'm looking at the chat right now before I get off here.
Oh, Boston Marathon bombing.
I could definitely break that one down.
I have a very intimate knowledge of that case.
I was in Boston when it happened, guys.
I have a lot of, know a lot about that one.
Okay, I see Epstein, Capitol Riots, Rollo.
Let's see here.
See Dirk and Vaughn, Vibs Cartel.
Guys, the Vibs Cartel one is an international case.
I don't know if I'd be able to break that one down like efficiently.
Okay, I see Torrey.
Okay, Gizlane, Omni and the Hellcat.
Yep, I gave a little bit on the Omni and the Hellcat, but I could do a more thorough breakdown.
Ghislaine.
Yo, I said it.
I called it when I was on Timcast.
I said she's going to go to jail.
Bro, no, she's not.
She's going to beat the case.
Bro, Southern District of New York, FBI, sex trafficking, it's a wrap.
They don't mess around with that, bro.
The two agencies that do sex trafficking are HSI, FBI.
They don't mess around when they do that, bro.
You're going to jail.
Anything that has to do with kids, it's a wrap.
You're going to jail.
All right, K-Flock, Torrey, Epstein.
Okay.
Oh, I see Dolph here.
Yep.
I'm already, as far as Dolph goes, guys, don't worry.
I'm already gathering information on that one.
Apparently, the killer is going to surrender tomorrow, which I think that one is.
Stop the cap.
But anyway, he's allegedly going to surrender.
The Marshalls want him.
Hush Puppy.
Let's see here.
Tay K. Boston bombing.
Yep.
I see you guys want the Boston one.
Keep it a street.
Nobody wants here.
Yeah.
International cases.
Yeah, definitely.
El Chapo, Push Iisty.
Okay.
I might do Push Ice for y'all during this week and then do it just because that one's going to be easy.
And I know you guys are feeding for this type of content.
And then I'll do Epstein in a more, I guess, more thorough.
The thing with the Torrey case, guys, is a California case, so I'm going to have to pull up all the documents.
And the case isn't done yet.
That's why I like the Tory one, I might want to wait a little bit.
Can you also go through old cases like Nikki Bonds and play Devil's Advocate as Defense and Prosecutor?
Yeah, I could definitely do that for y'all.
That's not a problem.
Chapo's wife, O Block.
Oh, yeah, we could definitely talk about the O Block one.
I got a whole speculation on the O Block one, man.
Oh, Lord.
Oh, Lord.
The O Block one is, yeah.
I got a whole theory on why I even think they're going down that angle with them.
All I got to say is, I would need more detail.
I think they're targeting Dirk personally.
That's what I think.
I think they're trying to build a case against Dirk.
But I can go into more detail on that on the other one.
Oh, Fetty Wap.
Yep, that's another one.
Yeah, Fetty Wap, that one will be easy.
That's an easy drug case.
Could break that one down.
So, all right, cool.
Cool.
All right.
Now, someone said top five.
Top five.
That's a Canada case, bro.
That's a Canadian case.
I mean, I could.
I'm very familiar with Canadian law because I did a case that I worked very closely with RCMP.
But yeah, I'll keep it American for now.
I'll do the international stuff later.
I could definitely do international cases later.
But, all right, cool.
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
YFN Lucci.
That's a state case.
I could do that too.
But, all right, guys, hope you enjoyed that.
I'm going to get going here.
Share this video with a friend.
We're going to put this out in clips.
Hopefully, we get some time stamps on this bad boy.
Hope you guys enjoyed it.
You know, and come back to it if you guys have any questions about Rico and everything.
We broke it down as far as like line by line, what Rico is, the gangs, what constitutes an enterprise, all that stuff.
So, love you guys.
I'll catch you guys tomorrow.
We got a show at 7 p.m.
We got a show, yeah.
Tomorrow's, yeah, we're gonna do uh Money Monday with Charlie from Cultivate Crypto at 7 p.m.
Then we got a late night show with the girls, so it's gonna be lit.
And then Tuesday, we got a show at 6 and then a nighttime show as well.
So the contents ain't going nowhere, guys.
We got y'all with the you know, with the money, with the girls, with the law enforcement knowledge.
Yo, ain't nobody providing as much value as us on YouTube, baby.
So, yo, hope you guys enjoyed that one.
I'll catch you guys tomorrow, 7 p.m., for a money Monday with Charlie from Cultivate Crypto.