Former Fed EXPOSES Gunna's Plea Deal. Did He Snitch?
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Welcome to Feda.
Today we're going to be discussing the YSL Rico and, more importantly, the Gunna plea deal, man.
We got a lot to cover.
I'm going to break down how this stuff works.
Let's get right into it.
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Okay, guys, HSI.
The cases that I did mostly were human smuggling and drug trafficking.
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Murder investigation.
You're facing two channels of two.
Racketeering and Rico conspiracy.
Young Slime Life, here and after referred to as YSL to the Senate.
6ix9ine.
And then this is Billy Seiko right here.
Now, when they first started, guys, 6ix9ine ran with me too.
I'm watching this music video.
You know, I'm bothering my head like, hey, this shit lit.
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Firearms and bowlers.
He's violated.
You're wanting to stay away from the video.
This is the one that's going to fuck him up because this gun is not traceable.
Well, what happened at the gun range?
Here's your boy 42 Doug right here on the left.
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They can effectively link him paying an underage girl.
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And this came up because as we're breaking down the Tory case, what ended up happening was Gunna was released from prison.
And there was a bunch of stuff going on.
Like, yo, Marin, to break this down, let us know.
Is he telling what's going on?
Blah, blah, blah.
And as someone who's actually done Rico cases himself, and I've done, you know, gang investigations, et cetera, I could definitely break down for y'all how this stuff all works.
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All right.
Cool.
So, okay, before, so I'll just get right into it.
Okay, guys.
So who is Gunna?
All right.
Gunna, guys, is an artist.
Go ahead and allow this one, bam.
So here's who Gunna is, by the way, guys.
All right.
Because some of you guys may or may not be aware of the hip-hop scene.
So Sergio Giovanni Kitchens, a.k.a.
Sergio Kitchens, born June 14, 1993, known professionally as Gunna, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.
He has signed to the Young Thugs record label, signed to Young Thugs record label, YSL Records, as well as 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records.
He released his debut studio album, Drip or Drown 2, in Atlantic Records.
He released his debut studio album, Drip or Drown 2, in 2019 and followed it up with his second studio album, Wanna, in 2020, which debuted atop the Billboard 200.
His third album, DS Forever, was released in 2022, becoming his second consecutive number one album.
So, obviously, he's a very accomplished artist.
You know, he came out with the hit record, Pushin'P, which was a huge, you know, hit earlier this year.
As you guys, I'm sure you guys recognize.
And then also, I want to go ahead and let y'all know that I had broken down this case a couple months back.
As you guys want to, and I go into way more detail on this one, but basically a former Fred explains why I sell Rico.
We may never see Young Thug and Gunnar Official Free again.
Here's why.
And I break down, and we know Gunn is free now, and we're going to break down why he's free.
But in here, I go in detail over the indictment in particular.
And the indictment, guys, is this document right here.
Okay.
This is the indictment charge against all the members of YSL.
As you guys can see, they have a whole bunch of people on here with a whole bunch of different charges.
Okay.
And yeah, these are some pretty serious charges.
So, and we'll go back to this indictment here later on in this broadcast.
But if you guys want more details of what they're actually facing, when it broke back in May earlier this year, be sure to check out this broadcast where I go into more detail about RICO, et cetera.
But for today's broadcast, I'm going to go ahead and give you guys a general overview of what RICO is so that you guys are familiar with today's podcast.
All right.
So what is RICO?
Okay.
Georgia law on RICO.
So just so y'all understand, right?
And let me just minimize the screen real fast.
So RICO, guys, stands for Racketeer Influence in Corrupt Organizations.
All right.
Originally, RICO was created back in the 70s, 80s to combat the La Cosa Nosha, aka the American mafia.
Okay.
And at the time, that was the chief investigative priority for the FBI, the Federal Bureau investigation, okay?
Because basically back then, the mob was running everything.
They had their tentacles and everything, you know, extorting people, murder for hire, all types of different crimes.
And it was organized crime.
But the problem is that back then, there weren't laws that can charge entire organizations.
You can only charge, you know, each person with independent crimes.
And the problem is that the people on the higher ups were basically insulated from being charged and or brought to prosecution because they were so high up that they would order a hit and you weren't able to trace it back to them.
So what RICO laws were effectively able to do was instead of charging one individual, you can go after the organization as a whole.
So in other words, if you commit crimes, right, for the benefit or the furtherance of a said criminal organization, the organization could be attacked uniformly, everyone at the same time.
Okay.
And what this allowed for was for people to say, well, I didn't commit that.
My crimes weren't that bad.
You're telling me I'm going down for everybody else.
I want to cooperate.
And then bam, then you start to get the dominoes rolling.
People want to cooperate.
They want to go ahead and save themselves because everyone's being charged under very serious racketeering laws, which have stiff penalties.
And that's how they were able to effectively, okay, topple the mafia thanks to RICO laws.
And they're still being used to this day to go after gangs, organized crime organizations, and a multitude of other types of crooks that commit crimes in furtherance of an organization.
But nowadays, it's mostly used against gangs.
All right.
So let's go ahead and go over this.
Now, there's a federal RICO statue and the states have also adopted state statutes.
And you guys are probably wondering, well, Myron, tell me about this real fast.
Are the feds doing this or is the state doing this?
Well, guys, the state of Georgia are the ones pursuing this case.
It is not the feds.
It is the state.
However, Georgia does have a RICO statute, okay, that is very similar to the federal statute.
And, you know, obviously state cases are typically not as serious as federal cases because when the feds come, you're typically going to lose.
You know, we've seen examples of this with 6ix9ine, Casanova.
You know, just to off the top of my head that I could think of that were recent, right, Pushaisti.
These are all Fed cases, and all of them got a significant amount of time except for Takashi, who cooperated with the government and was able to get a lot of that time reduced.
However, he gave a budget testimony.
He took the stand, et cetera.
And that is why he only did a few years.
But normally, you would be serving football numbers, right?
I think Takashi was looking at somewhere between 40 to 60 years, somewhere in that time range, had he not cooperated with the government.
So federal racketeering cases, you're going to probably take an L. So in this case, one thing that's good for YSL is that this was a state case.
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All right.
So let's go.
Now that we understand what RICO is, okay, and we understand that there's a state and a federal version of said laws.
Let's get into the Georgia ones in particular.
And this comes from a Georgia lawyer, GeorgiaCriminal Lawyer.com, which I like these types of websites a lot of times, guys, because what they'll do is they'll kind of explain it to you as if you're the one being charged for it.
So they explain it in a very simple and easy to understand format because, like, yo, I just got arrested for Rico.
I need a lawyer.
And then, bam, you come on a website like this and they explain kind of what you're facing, right?
All right.
So OGA 16-14-4 outlines four ways a person would be guilty of violating the racketeering statute by directly or indirectly acquiring or maintaining any interest in or control of any enterprise, real property, or personal property through a pattern of racketeering or the proceeds derived from the activity by directly, that's number one.
Number two, by directly or indirectly participating in an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity while being employed by or associated with the enterprise, okay?
By conspiring or endeavoring to directly or indirectly acquire or maintain any interest in or control of any enterprise, real property, or personal property through a pattern of racketeering activity or the proceeds derived from a pattern of racketeering activity, or by conspiring or endeavoring to directly or indirectly participate in enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity while being employed by or associated with the enterprise.
All right.
I know what you guys are probably thinking.
Whoa, what the hell are we talking about over here?
What is racketeering activity?
Guys, racketeering activity can be a multitude of different crimes, whether it's murder, drug trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking.
It can be extortion.
It can be illegal gambling.
It could be a multitude of different crimes.
If I'm not mistaken, the state of Georgia has somewhere around 40 crimes that can be considered patterns of racketeering activity.
Okay.
So what this allows them to basically do, and as you guys can see, it's extremely broadly written, and that's for a reason.
So that they could basically say, if you're involved in any type of criminal activity that is benefiting an organization, it's written broadly like that.
So they can encompass a bunch of different crimes so that they can go ahead and say, yo, you're committing this crime on behalf of the organization.
You're committing this crime on behalf of the organization, etc.
Okay.
So that is why it's written that way.
And RICO laws typically are written fairly broadly like this so that they can go ahead and cover a bunch of different crimes that can be considered racketeering activity under the furtherance of the organization.
RICO is a crime that has a federal statute and a Georgia state statute.
The Georgia statute defines racketeering more broadly than the federal law does.
In addition, it takes less approve a pattern of racketeering activity under the Georgia statute than the federal one.
However, the largest difference between the two is that Georgia does not always require the existence of an enterprise to constitute racketeering.
Now, that is big, guys, because for the feds, if you look at any federal RICO indictment, it's always going to have the enterprise, okay?
And the enterprise is basically the name of the organized criminal organization.
Okay.
So for example, in Takashi's Rico, if you look at it, it says the nine tray bloods, right?
If you look at like Casanova's RICO indictment, which we broke down on other episodes, if you guys want to go ahead and feel free to check those out, it would be, you know, the Gorilla Stone Nation bloods.
So they always refer to the enterprise as the criminal organization, and then all the charges come from that.
Okay.
So the Georgia law is more broad.
So there's more crimes that can constitute as racketeering activity.
And on top of that, they don't necessarily have to prove that it is a that it's an enterprise.
So the threshold is lower.
And once again, since the threshold is lower, typically this is why state cases are not as strong as federal cases.
The burden of proof is not as strong.
Okay.
What is a pattern of racketeering activity?
There are many crimes that can be used to show a pattern of unlawful conduct.
The predicate crimes that fall under the RICO statute in Georgia include drug offenses, homicide, bodily injury, arson, burglary, forgery, theft, prostitution, obscene materials, bribery, witness tampering, perjury, evidence tampering, commercial gambling, distilling liquors and alcoholic beverages, firearm violations, securities violations, credit card fraud, computer crimes, kidnapping, carjacking, and making terroristic threats.
Holy.
So in other words, if you're committing damn near any crime, all right, and you're saying, yeah, we YSL, woo, blah, blah, blah.
Guess what's going to happen?
Next thing you know, And the state is coming after you, okay?
That's what's going to happen because they have so many crimes that fall under a pattern of racketeering activity.
And just so y'all know, this entire investigation was kicked off on a murder back in, I want to say 2015 for another rival gang member named Peanut, okay, who was an associate of YFN Lucci, which, you know, I go into more detail on this on the last podcast if you guys want.
This episode is more about Gunn's plea deal in particular.
But if you guys want to learn more about how this YSL case started in the first place, yeah, they've been looking at Young Thug for a very long time and it kind of got kicked off from that murder.
All right.
So, but going back into what I was saying, I say all that to say, look, you know, murder is in here, bribery, witness tampering, commercial gambling, everything, right?
The courts have concluded that a pattern consists of at least two acts of racketeering activity in furtherance of one or more incident schemes or transactions that have the same or similar intent, results, accomplices, victims, or methods of commission or otherwise are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and are not isolated incidents.
The incidents do not have to have occur, I think it means have to occur at the same time, but the court has stated that at least one of the incidents must be within four years of a prior incident of racketeering activity.
And what this also does, guys, okay, they're not saying this, but this allows the statute of limitations to be pushed back.
So normally, if you had committed this crime, let's say I was just drug dealing, right?
And that has a statute of limitations of five years.
Well, since I was doing it in furtherance of the criminal organization, right?
That timeline can be extended now because I was drug trafficking in furtherance of other organizations.
So they can come back and get me for drug trafficking, even though it's past the statute of limitations because they can go ahead and articulate, well, it was a pattern of racketeering activity.
So therefore, that extends the clock.
And that right there, my friends, is how so many people go down for crimes, okay, that occurred maybe 10, 15, 20 years ago, way past the statute of limitations, but they're able to come back and charge you on those crimes because they're saying, well, it's a pattern of racketeering activity.
It was continuing on over a period of time.
So the statute of limitations doesn't apply here.
The next thing you know, bam, gotcha, bitch.
And that's how they get you a lot of the times.
Okay.
And then the Georgia case law on racketeering.
An example of a defendant being convicted on the Rico statute can be found in Kilby versus State.
Okay.
The defendant Kilby.
And now, so they're using case law here.
Okay.
The defendant Kilby was the director and a fiduciary of an animal shelter.
During her time as director, Kilby linked two PayPal accounts that were intended for donations to the animal shelter, to her own personal accounts and routed to herself a total of $10,500.
In addition, she instructed her employees to give all the cash.
Oh, sorry, my bad guys.
Let me show y'all on the screen.
Okay.
She instructed her employees to give all the cash to her and not to give out receipts.
After years of this occurring, an employee reported her to an investigative team of a local television network.
The investigator discovered that Kilby was doing and what Kilby was doing and was subsequently indicted for 29 counts of theft by taking and 29 counts of computer theft.
During the trial, Kilby argued, let me enlarge this for real fast, argued that there was insufficient evidence to support theft by taking and racketeering.
She specifically argued that the state failed to prove that the money she directed to her personal accounts were the property of the animal shelter.
However, two members of the board of direction of the animal shelter testified that Kilby was never authorized to solicit funds and deposit them into her personal bank account.
Moreover, Kilby testified that the transactions were involved in transactions that involved donation money that was intended for and belonged to the animals.
Therefore, the jury found Kilby guilty of racketeering based upon the theft by taking incidents.
So what does that basically show, guys?
That they can get you for damn near any crime if it's being committed on in furtherance of a criminal organization, which in this case is going to be her animal shelter.
So they're over here going after people that run shelters.
Okay.
You think a gang is going to stand a chance?
You think the bloods in the crypts are going to stand a chance if they're over here convicting people running to animal shelters?
Holy.
Oh, man.
That is a.
All right.
Cool.
So that is basically, that goes to show you guys how easy it is to convict someone of racketeering.
All right.
So now that we've went over who Gunna is, what Rico is, what Rico is pertaining to the Georgia statutes, okay, the Georgia version, let's go ahead and go over some footage here of Gunna being released from prison and some stuff that went down.
The question that everyone wants to know is, did Gunna snitch?
And I'm going to present you guys some facts and you guys can decide what you want to do from here.
All right.
This comes from Complex Video Shows, Gunna accepting plea deal in court prior to release from jail.
And we're staying on top of this breaking news tonight.
Within the past 45 minutes, Atlanta rapper Gunna walked out of the Fulton County jail.
The rapper whose real name is Sergio Kitchens entered a negotiated guilty plea, what's known as an Alfred plea, allowing him to also maintain his innocence.
Gunna was in trouble.
Real quick, you guys might be wondering, what the hell is an Alfred plea?
Well, an Alfred plea, guys, is right here.
In the United States law, an Alfred plea, also known as a Kennedy plea in West Virginia, an Alfred plea guilty plea and the Alfred Doctrine is a guilty plea in criminal court whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence, but admits that the evidence presented by the prosecution would be likely to persuade a judge or jury to find a defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Okay, as you guys know in the United States, the threshold for you to be found guilty is beyond a reasonable doubt.
All right.
This can be caused by circumstantial evidence and testimony favoring the prosecution and difficulty finding evidence and witnesses that would aid the defense.
Alfred pleas are legally permissible in nearly all U.S. federal and state courts, except in the state courts of Indiana, Michigan, and New Jersey, or in the courts of the United States Armed Forces, which I talked to y'all about this before with military courts.
Y'all are going to take an L. They almost never lose.
They have some of the highest conviction rates, military courts.
But yeah, so unless you're in Indiana, Michigan, or Jersey, you can go ahead and take an Alfred plea.
And basically what it means is, listen, man, I'm not going to say I'm guilty, but y'all got a lot of evidence.
And more than likely, if I were to take this to trial, I'll get found guilty, but I'm not claiming that I'm guilty.
All right, so I'm going to go ahead and drop in the Alfred plea because y'all got evidence to convict me.
That's what Alfred plea basically is, guys.
All right.
It's not admitting guilt.
It's admitting that the prosecution has more than enough evidence to find you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
All right.
And I know it's a very, well, that's a weird distinction, but that's basically what it is.
It is not an admission of guilt, so to speak.
All right.
Let's go back.
On racketeering and conspiracy charges, part of a large-My bad guys.
Bye-bye, guys.
Gang indictment that includes rapper Young Thug and other alleged members of YSL or Young Slime Life Gang.
And also today, allegedly alleged YSL co-founder Walter Murphy negotiated a guilty plea in the RICO indictment ahead of the trial scheduled to start next month.
New at 6 Channel 2's Mark Winnie is live at the Fulton County Jail with what all of this means today, Mark.
Yeah, some big stuff said in court today.
We got when that something was going on in the YSL case, hustled down to the courthouse, got there in time.
I shot the hearing on my iPhone.
It is a major, major development in a major case.
Yes, ma'am.
I understand.
That's Sergio Kitchens.
All right, so there right there is Gunna, and this is him at his plea.
All right, so pay attention here, guys.
Perhaps better known as music star Gunna was gonna get out of jail soon.
Seemed apparent early in the hearing as Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Adrian Love went through the sentence that would be recommended.
Five years to serve one.
Commuted to time served.
Balance suspended.
And the parties agree that upon completion of the special conditions that I will enumerate, the suspended sentence will terminate by consent order.
The Fulton County District Attorney's Office says Gunna pled guilty to the single county face in a sprawling indictment focused on the alleged criminal street gang YSL against him and more than two dozen others.
Conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
The guilty plea entered as what's called an Alford plea, where a defendant doesn't admit he committed the crime but acknowledges it's in his best interest to plead guilty.
If caught by any party in this case, you will testify truthfully, but reserve.
Oh, hold on.
Y'all heard that?
So if called to testify, will testify truthfully, but 85th Amendment rights or privileges against self-incrimination.
So he can plead the fifth only against self-incrimination, which is something that I had to go ahead and discuss to Hassan, who quite frankly is very stupid.
That you can only take the fifth if it is reasonably expected what you're about to say is going to incriminate you.
But you cannot use the Fifth Amendment as a blanket catch-all to not talk to the police, especially if you're put on the stand and compelled to testify.
You agreed to perform 500 hours of community service, a substantial portion of which will require that you speak to young men and women about the hazards and immortality of gangs and gang violence and the decay that it causes our communities.
Sergio Kitchens press statement suggests in the case of his Press statement here, which I actually have it, guys, which is kind of funny.
He gave this statement.
Let's enlarge it and read it.
This is immediately after.
When I became affiliate with YSL 2016, I did not consider it a gang, more like a group of people from Metro Atlanta who had common interests and artistic aspirations.
My focus of YSL was entertainment rap artists who wrote and performed music that exaggerated and glorified urban life in the black community.
While I've agreed to always be truthful, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have not made any statements, have not been interviewed, have not cooperated, have not agreed to testify or be a witness for or against any party in the case, and have absolutely no intention of being involved in the trial process in any way.
I've chosen to end my own RICO case with an Alford plea and end my personal ordeal by publicly acknowledging my association with YSL.
An Alfred plea in my case is the entry of a guilty plea to the one charge against me, which is in my best interest while at the same time maintaining my innocence towards the same charge.
I love and cherish my association with YSL music and always will.
I look at this as an opportunity to give back to my community and educate young men and women that gangs and violence only lead to destruction.
Holy.
All right, let's go back to the clip.
Alfred plea, he's quote, maintaining my innocence toward the same charge, unquote.
It says, while I've agreed to always be truthful, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have not made any statements, have not been interviewed, have not cooperated, have not agreed to testify or be a witness for or against any party in the case and have absolutely no intent.
But that contradicts the plea agreement, which we're gonna talk about here in a second.
Being involved in the trial process in any way, in court, some startling statements.
Please state after each statement whether or not you agree or acknowledge that statements are true, okay?
Yes, ma'am.
I became affiliated with YSL around 2016.
Is that true as it pertains to you, Mr. Kitchens?
Yes, ma'am.
YSL is a music label and a game, and you have personal knowledge that members or associates of YSL have committed crimes in part of the game.
Yes, ma'am.
Oh, man.
You were present when law enforcement officers stopped the vehicle in which you were present along with Jeffrey Williams, wherein hydrocodone, methamphetamines, and a firearm were recovered.
These items did not belong to you.
Yes, ma'am.
Holy.
Yeah, so I mean, that's pretty self-explanatory.
I mean, he absolved himself of the responsibility.
Who else is in the vehicle?
Well, Jeffrey Williams.
Who is Jeffrey Williams, guys?
That, my friends, is young Thug's real name.
Bumbucka!
Now, this is what they're talking about in particular.
I have the indictment pulled up here for y'all.
Let's actually look at the paperwork.
It goes, On 9-24, 2017, defendant Sergio Kitchens and Jeffrey Williams, associates of YSL, did commit the felony offense of theft by receiving stolen property when, while possessing property, to wit, a firearm, the property of Trayvon Lewis that Kitchens or Williams knew or should have known, was stolen with the intent of depriving Trevon Lewis of said property in violation of Georgia law pursuant to OCGA 16A7, which is an act of racketeering activity under OCCGA 1614 and an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.
Okay, so that's one of them.
And then, and then defendant Sergio Kitchens, Jeff Williams, associate of YSL did commit the felony offense of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute control substance in violation of Georgia law pursuant to OCGA 1613-30B, which is an act of racketeering activity under OCGA 1614-3 and an overact in furtherance of the conspiracy.
Okay, holy.
And then we got here again, also on September 24th, 2017.
So they got hit with a couple of charges here, guys.
Defendant Sergio Kitchens and Jeff Williams, associates of YSL, did commit the felony offense of possession of a hydrocodon of hydrocodon with intent to distribute a control substance in violation of Georgia law pursuant to OCGA 161330B, which is an act of racketeering activity.
Okay.
And then again, defendant Sergio Kitchens and Jeff Williams, associate of YSL, did commit the felony offense of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in violation of Georgia law pursuant to OCCG's OCGA, which is an act of racketeering activity under OCGA and an overact in furtherance of the conspiracy.
So he basically said, yo, none of this stuff is mine.
Let's rewind it a little bit to me.
So I make sure, because we looked at the indictment, what he was charged with, right?
And this is what he's talking about in this indictment one more time.
These items did not belong to you.
In which you were present when law enforcement officers stopped a vehicle in which you were present along with Jeffrey Williams, where an hydrocodone, methamphetamines, and a firearm were recovered.
These items did not belong to you.
Holy.
So I read you all the charges from the actual indictment, and he's acknowledging none of that stuff that he was caught in the car with belonged to him.
Well, guess who else was in the car with him?
Jeffrey Williams, aka Young Thug.
So what does that strictly do?
What does that do?
That squarely puts the responsibility on Young Thug.
So even though he's not overtly saying, yo, it was his, I'm cooperating.
He's saying it wasn't his, which therefore does what?
Puts the blame on Young Thug.
And do you acknowledge the following statement?
I recognize, accept, and deeply regret that my talent and music indirectly further YSL the game to the detriment of my community.
YSL as a game must begin.
Is that your statement or acknowledgement?
The YSL indictment includes that right there, guys.
I mean, so he indirectly implicated Young Thug, as you guys can see here, right, as potentially being the owner of the drugs and the weapons in the vehicle that he was caught with on September 24th, 2017.
And he stated that YSL is a street gang, which obviously is critical to the prosecution's case because that allows them, right, to be able to, it allows them to make their RICO case stronger.
That, yo, we're going after an organized criminal organization.
Jeffrey Williams, aka young thug, his attorney, Brian Steele, has said, Mr. Williams committed no crime.
Judge Euro Gleinvale, I find that you please freely and voluntarily enter.
I find a factual basis for your plea, and I'm going to accept your pleas.
So he just basically accepted his plea.
He said, I find it factual and done of your free will.
Now, Jacoby Hudson, defense attorney for YSL case defendant Walter Murphy, confirms that late Tuesday, Murphy pled guilty to a racketeering conspiracy count and has been released from the Fulton County Jail already.
All right.
So that right there, guys.
Now, let's go ahead and actually take a look at this document.
Okay.
So this is the, and I'm done to market this because not many people have this thing.
This is the, this is like basically the plea agreement, okay?
And you guys can see here, right, Sergio Kitchens, right, criminal action.
And then you can see here that it was negotiated.
Here's the charges that they hit him with.
These are the OG, OCGA statutes, which is basically RICO.
And what he ended up getting was conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act, right?
Here's the statute.
He put the guilty Alfred plea, and then five years, one year commute to a time served balance of four years suspended.
So basically, he was able to only serve not even a year, guys, because remember, he went into prison around May of this year.
So he was in prison for what, six, seven months?
And he was basically able to get out, right?
And so it goes here.
Upon service, one year to commute, time served, the remainder of the sentence suspended.
Okay.
That's page one.
Page two, right?
I want to have you guys, here's the general conditions of probation, right?
Number one, do not violate criminal laws of any government unit and be of general good behavior.
Avoid injurious and vicious habits.
Avoid persons or places or disreputable or harmful character.
Here, do I need to enlarge this for y'all more?
Hold on, let me.
I think this is the there.
We go.
That should be better.
And real quick, I'll, okay, so we're at report to the community supervision officer.
We're faithfully at suitable employment insofar as may be possible.
Do not change your place of abode.
Move outside the jurisdiction of the court.
So he's going to be stuck in Georgia for a little bit unless his PO lets him.
When directed under discretion of the community supervision officer, submit evaluation testing relating to rehabilitation and participate in successfully complete rehabilitative programming.
Wear a device capable of tracking locations by means, including electronic surveillance or global position satellite.
So he might have an ankle bracelet.
And then nine, make restitution is ordered by the court.
Now, I also want to bring this serious thing.
Here are the special conditions here, guys.
The defendant is advised that violation of any special condition of this disposition may subject the defendant to a revocation, which means revoke.
And the court may require the defendant to serve up to the balance of the sentence in confinement.
The defendant shall comply with all special conditions or as follows.
And it's written here in red, so it's not mistaken.
The parties agree that completion of the special condition enumerated in 3B below, the suspended sentence will terminate by consent order.
A, if called by any party in this case, you will testify truthfully, but reserve your right to assert your Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, okay?
And then agree to perform 500 hours of community service, complete at least 350, a substantial portion of which will require that you speak to young men and women about the hazards and immorality of gangs and gang violence and the decay that it causes the community.
You agree that the community service location shall be determined by the office of the Fulton County District Attorney.
Okay.
And this is for Gunna.
You can see right here his name, Sergio Kitchens.
This right here, guys, A, if called by any party in this case, you will testify truthfully, but reserve your right to assert your Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
What the hell does this mean in English, guys?
I got y'all.
Okay.
What this means is, if Young Thug or any other members of the organization decide to go to trial, they can call Gunna in and say, we need you to testify, okay, against this individual.
And here's the problem: Gunna cannot assert the Fifth Amendment because the Fifth Amendment can only be asserted, the right to remain silent, by the way, if you reasonably foresee that what you're going to say might incriminate you and put you in a compromising situation where you can be charged in the future.
However, clearly, we can see that his term was suspended.
He's pretty much given an alpha plea in this case as far as this racketeering case goes.
And any information he gives doesn't necessarily have to incriminate him.
So if he has information that can incriminate someone else, well, he's not protected.
He has to testify truthfully, or the court can say, oh, you don't want to testify?
We know that you have information on this situation.
You don't want to testify.
Bam.
We're going to go ahead and revoke this agreement.
And now you're going to go back to prison to finish out that four years.
Okay.
So he can only invoke the fifth, guys, to protect himself.
It does not allow him to protect others.
And that's a very important distinction when it comes to the Fifth Amendment.
All right.
So does that mean he snitched right now?
Well, it depends on how you guys want to interpret it.
He basically implicated Young Thug, right, from the November 24th, 2017 traffic stop as the guns, the drugs, et cetera, didn't belong to me.
And he's supposed to come and testify should the government call on him to testify.
And he has to testify truthfully and he cannot assert the Fifth Amendment.
He can only assert the Fifth Amendment to protect himself.
However, like we discussed before, he pretty much already pled guilty to the charges.
So he's not going to get prosecuted.
All right.
So he can't sit there and invoke the fifth if he doesn't have a reasonable expectation that he's going to be prosecuted.
All right.
Whatever you do, don't listen to Assam when it comes to the Fifth Amendment.
He'll know what he's talking about.
All right.
And then this is the first offender conditional discharge, right?
The defendant consenting hereto.
It is a judgment of the court that no judgment of guilt be imposed at this time.
Let me enlarge it for y'all.
Oh, and then here's number C to go back to page to go back to page two, right?
It continues on.
C, you shall not possess any guns during the term of this sentence or any time thereafter unless your right to do so is restored.
You shall not commit no criminal acts.
Well, he won't be able to have a gun anyway because he is going, he's a convicted felon now.
And as a convicted felon, you cannot bear a firearm.
Okay.
So upon violation of the terms of probation upon conviction for another crime during the period of probation or under the court's determination, the defendant is or was not eligible for that sentencing under the First Offender Act or for conditional discharge.
The court may enter an adjudicate adjudication of guilt and proceeds to sentence the defendant to the maximum sentence as provided by law.
All right.
And it just, you know, continues on and gives some stuff.
But here's his attorney, the honorable, sorry, no, Stephen H. Sedell, attorney at law, represented the defendant by employment.
Okay.
And this is a court reporter.
And this was signed by the judge.
All right.
And then we got page four here.
You know, some more stuff, acknowledging he probably he had to sign this.
Obviously, they're not going to put his signature in this one, but this was his plea agreement, guys.
So, I mean, y'all got it right there in black and white, man.
All right.
Let's see here.
So I got some of these chats here real fast.
Let me pull them up real fast.
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Y'all are the real ones here in the chat.
Okay.
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Myron's nose.
I don't think the people really, I mean, if enough people request it, then yeah, we can.
I try to go off of what the people want, man.
Does Tories still have a chance or it's a wrap?
So if you guys go ahead and break down, watch our podcast that we did on this yesterday.
Andrew Esquire actually came in and we talked about the appeal process.
Tori's 100% going to have to appeal this thing.
But I mean, let's be honest here, man.
Appeals are difficult.
And yeah.
So yeah, I mean, I hope so, man.
I mean, that was, in my opinion, a terrible miscarriage of justice.
There was definitely reasonable doubt in that trial.
And the fact that Tori was convicted is wild to me.
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Could cover the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force.
Yes, I've been researching this case.
I actually have the indictment here for that case.
If you guys are wondering, they did a whole HBO special on the show on that case.
But yes, I will cover the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force, man.
That one was crazy.
Random question, Myron.
Do you think the jury found Tori guilty so quickly was because the jury didn't want to deliberate throughout the Christmas weekend?
That's true.
That could have been a factor, Venom.
Definitely could have been a factor.
Michael Meestroke, a dollar again.
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Appreciate that.
And then we got here John Ray.
Who is the worst L?
Gunna or Tori?
Who has the worst L?
Well, I would say, damn, that's a good question.
Well, Gunna's out of prison, bro.
So y'all could call it an L, but hey, man, you know what I mean?
I don't think any rapper put in his position would do the same thing.
Yo, there is no honor among thieves, guys.
Whoever comes to the table first and cooperates typically gets the best deal.
So, you know what I mean?
Gunna did what you have to do.
I'm not even mad.
Mouse Purple, Silk Road case.
I mean, I've said it before.
I'll say it again.
6ix9ine was smart for testifying against Nitre, bro.
I know a lot of y'all are like, oh, he snitched, blah, blah, blah.
Bro, a lot of y'all facing that kind of time would have snitched to, bro.
That was a smart thing to do.
He's out making money, you know, making music, doing whatever he want to do.
Like, you know what?
He's going to go to prison for some guys that don't give a fuck about him and he probably would have ended up dying or getting killed in there anyway.
Not worth it.
Hassan is basically uninformed.
It's sad, but true.
The news and paperwork is public to everyone.
It's simply just doing your research.
Thanks for the amount of info you give us with FedIT and chatters.
I appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
Hick.
I appreciate that greatly.
Yeah, I mean, the problem with Hassan is that he's one of those guys that doesn't know.
He's not an expert or anything.
He'd just be dabbling.
And quite frankly, he didn't know what he was talking about when it came to the Fifth Amendment.
Yes, someone can assert their Fifth Amendment right at any moment, but that does not mean that it's actually going to be validated and you won't feel or you won't deal with consequence.
That's what I was trying to tell him.
It's like, yes, you can invoke the Fifth Amendment, right?
At any time.
However, that does not mean that the prosecution can't come after you and charge you for what's the term?
Damn it.
There's a charge for it.
Well, or the or the judge can hold you in contempt of court because you cannot assert Fifth Amendment privilege unless you're going to be charged yourself, right?
Or I can't think of the term, the charge right now in my head when you mess with the court proceedings.
It's in contempt of court, but there's an actual formal charge for it.
And it'll come to me or someone in the chat will say it.
I just can't think of it right now.
Obstruction of justice.
Bam, there you go.
Yeah.
You can cut.
Yeah, they can get you with obstruction as well.
Thank you so much, chat.
Shout out to y'all.
Okay.
So anyway, let's go back.
Okay.
So Young Thug, right?
As y'all know, this is, you know, hours after Gunna pleads guilty.
You know, Young Thug is back in court.
Atlanta rapper Young Thug is back in court for the RICO case against him.
Now, this all comes less than 24 hours after Gunna entered a plea deal for his release from jail.
Young Thug and Gunner are two of 28 defendants charged in this RICO case.
All 28 members of the Young Slime Life record label, which prosecutors are accusing of having connection to street gang activity.
Motion hearings for Young Thug and other YSL members happening right now.
Our team is there.
We'll be sure to bring it the very latest online and here on air.
Here is a look at the moments Atlanta-born rapper Gunna walked out of the Fulton County jail late yesterday afternoon.
The rapper, whose real name is Sergio Kitchens, made a deal with prosecutors to make this all happen.
Now, Gunna will not have to stand trial early next year with rapper Young Thug and the more than two dozen other defendants who prosecutors say were part of a racketeering conspiracy.
And despite Gunna releasing a statement saying otherwise, documents from his plea deal show if called to testify when his co-defendants head to trial, the rapper would have to take the stand.
John Shirich, on that part of the story for us.
Gunna, Sergio Kitchens, leading the Fulton County jail seven months after he'd surrendered.
He is a free man.
The man Fulton County prosecutors had said was deeply involved with rapper Young Thug and 26 others in a violent gang called YSL.
Gunna pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering, and it was an Alfred plea, meaning Gunna does not admit to doing anything wrong despite pleading guilty.
So, um, and also, you guys can see here, Young Thug's brother also took a plea in the case, man.
So, L after L for YSL, man.
Or in this case, uh, YSTL is people are making jokes of Atlanta rapper and alleged gang leader Young Thug and nearly two dozen other defendants is getting closer to trial.
The rapper is charged with violating the state's RICO Act along with criminal street gang and firearms charges.
11 Alive is tracking a growing list of defendants now taking plea deals in the case.
Liza Lucas joins us live with more on that.
Liza Young Thug's own brother is the latest to cut a deal.
Yes, good morning, Quantavius Greer is Young Thug's brother.
As you mentioned, he's also a rapper, and he is now avoiding prison time after entering his guilty plea.
But one condition of that deal, and there are many, one condition being that he's not allowed to have any contact with his brother until after the trial is over.
As the calendar ticks closer to a trial, the list of defendants taking plea deals in the high-profile YSL case continues to grow.
Last week, Sergio Kitchens, better known as rapper Gunna, took the first plea deal, followed by Walter Murphy, an alleged YSL co-founder.
Then Wonnie Lee, rapper Slime Life Shoddy, and Martinez Arnold, rap name Little Duke, cut deals.
As you guys can see, all these guys are pleading guilty, man.
Now, Quantavius Greer or rapper entered everyone is taking deals, man.
And here's the thing: I got to let y'all know, bro.
The government isn't going to cut a deal with you, right?
And give you the benefit of a plea agreement where you get less time, less serious, um, you know, consequences, et cetera, unless they get something in return.
So, the fact that all these guys pled guilty and took deals, well, the government's getting something in return.
A lot of that times, guys, it's testimony, all right?
Unfortunately, it might not be here, it might not be now, but it could be in the future.
Should another member of YSL decide to go to trial?
Cool.
We're going to go ahead and call X, Y, and Z to the stand, and they will go ahead and testify.
Because guess what?
A lot of these guys are going to have similar plea deals to Gunna, where they are going to be called to testify, and they cannot necessarily invoke the fifth, right?
Unless they feel as though they're going to incriminate themselves.
But guess what?
A lot of them are not going to be able to enjoy the Fifth Amendment privilege because there's no chance of them getting prosecuted because they've already been prosecuted and pled guilty to the charges thrown at them.
So, thanks to Double Jeopardy, they can't be charged.
So, therefore, they cannot invoke the Fifth Amendment.
All right, let's keep going.
Guilty plea.
All five have been sentenced to between nine and ten years on probation.
Darrell Cohen is a prosecutor turned defense attorney.
He's not involved in the case, but is tracking it closely and says while defendants such as Gunna and Greer could be called to testify, the Fifth Amendment won't help them avoid every question on the witness stand.
The Fifth Amendment says, Even he says it for so LaSan, don't know what are you talking about, man?
I didn't watch this clip beforehand either, guys.
I am not going to testify because I refuse to incriminate myself.
You can do that, but you cannot take the fifth when it comes to testimony towards someone else or some other people that were involved in a crime.
Now, circling back to Greer, some other conditions of the deal he made.
Now, I know some of you guys in the chat are saying, Yo, why don't you just lie?
Why don't you just lie?
Here's the problem when you lie, guys.
The investigators already have the facts, okay?
So, if you get on the stand and you lie, what's going to happen is they're going to revoke that plea that they gave y'all, right?
So, they're going to go back to prison.
Their sentence is going to be re-imposed.
And then, on top of that, they're going to get hit with perjury lying on the stand, okay, guys?
You can't lie under oath, especially when the investigators already know what happened and they already have a solid timeline of what happened.
So, when you go on there and you testify, if it's contrary to the facts, they're going to come after you.
You're going to get charged with perjury.
They're going to re-impose your sentence and you're going to go back to prison.
Hence, they pled guilty for no reason.
All right.
150 hours of community service.
He is also not allowed to possess a gun, and there will be a curfew that he has to abide by.
We're going to be tracking all of this.
Of course, the trial getting closer and closer.
Jury selection set to begin early January.
And in the meantime, 11 Alive is going to be monitoring those court documents and any new developments.
We'll keep you posted with the latest.
In downtown Atlanta, I'm sending it back to you.
Yep.
Crazy stuff, man.
Crazy stuff.
So, anyway, with that said, guys, I need you to do me a favor and like the video.
But that is the Gunna case in a nutshell, guys.
Did he snitch?
Well, I mean, if you want to go ahead and look at it, where he basically took responsibility away from himself and put it on someone else, yes, that is essentially what happened.
You can look at that as snitching as you want.
It's up to you.
I just present y'all the facts.
You guys choose what you want to do.
But if he is called to testify, he does not get the Fifth Amendment privilege because they're going to more than likely ask him questions about other co-conspirators within YSL.
He also admitted that members of YSL had been involved in criminal activity.
He admitted that YSL is a gang, and all of that is incriminating in itself because the basis of a racketeering investigation a lot of times is predicated on the organization being considered a criminal enterprise.
Not necessarily according to Georgia statute, but the way they're prosecuting this particular case is they're looking at it as the enterprise.
And I'll show you guys what I mean by this real quick here in this indictment.
If you guys look in the end, the indictment, right?
I'm going to pull it up for y'all right here.
Give me one second.
And then if you guys want, I can explain to you guys how I would do a racketeering investigation as a law enforcement officer, as a former agent, because I've done them myself.
So as you guys can see here, boom.
Part one, the conspiracy.
As associates of the enterprise, Young Slime Life, herein referred to as YSL, the defendants conspired to associate together and with other members for the common purpose of illegally obtaining money and property through a pattern of racketeering activity and conducting and participating in the enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity and furtherance of the conspiracy defense engage in activities enumerated herein.
The objectives of the conspiracy included, but we're not limited to.
So him saying that YSL is a gang, guys, substantiates this part of the indictment, which is damaging to everyone that was charged.
And you guys can see, look at all the names that they got here.
Okay.
So, yeah, a lot of people.
All right.
May night, 2022.
So, all right, give me ones in the chat.
If y'all want me to break down how to build a racketeering case from the beginning, if y'all want, I'll go ahead and do it for y'all.
Give me ones in the chat.
If not, give me twos and I'll move on to something else.
Let's see here.
Let's see what the chat is saying.
Oh, resounding ones.
All right.
So I don't think anyone has ever broken this down on YouTube.
So I got y'all right now.
I got you.
I'm about to give you guys the fucking sauce.
Okay.
For some of you guys that are new, as you guys know, former special agent Homeland Security Investigations, I used to do, you know, I've done gang cases.
I've done racketeering cases, aka Rico cases at a federal level.
So I know exactly how this is done.
And this is how typically you will build a RICO case.
Before I get into it, let me go ahead and read this real fast.
I mean, Daniel, thank you for holding it down against that clown Friday.
He embarrassed himself for being ignorant and a fake social media personality.
Thanks again, Salute.
Shout out to you, my friend.
Yeah, I mean, he was way out of his wheelhouse, and he's one of those guys that will talk out his ass, even though he doesn't know what he's talking about.
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All right, if you guys want me to break this down, I need y'all to like the video because I'm about to give y'all a lot of sauce right now.
And we got almost 2,000 of you guys in here, 1,800 plus, but we only got 754 likes.
Get me to 1,000 likes, guys, and I will break down how a RICO case is actually conducted, how I would go about gathering evidence, how I would investigate something like this in the first place.
I don't think anybody on YouTube has ever described how to do it from actually an investigator's perspective.
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I got y'all, man.
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Because when it comes to people like LaSan, it doesn't matter what you think.
You know, and when he was saying all that bullshit about the Fifth Amendment in my head, I was just like, know your role and shut your mouth because the people's champ is ready to talk.
Yep.
He didn't know what he was talking about.
Run up the likes, guys.
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All right, well, so let's go ahead and go over how a case like this would be done.
So, let's say, right, we go back in time to when I was on a job, right?
I may or may not have done some of the things that I'm going to tell you guys right now as far as how a gang investigation goes.
So, all you guys out there that are a member of a gang or a rapper or something like that, you might want to take notes here because I'm about to give y'all some sauce on how these types of investigations are done.
Um, and yes, I will be doing Christopher Dutta's Coke.
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That one's in the list.
So, first, you got to identify your organization, especially when it comes to the federal level.
And the reason why for that, guys, is because, like I described before, federal, you need to identify an enterprise, okay?
And this organization needs to be involved in certain types of criminal activities that can be constituted under the racketeering statutes, okay?
So, we'll make this nice and simple.
Let's say we identify some members of a gang like the Bloods or the Crips or the GDs or something like that, right?
Well, that's easy to establish because they're a national gang, right?
So, what you would need to do first is you need to work with the state and locals.
Why do I say you need to work with the state and locals?
The reason why I need to work with the state and locals is because, and by state and locals, I mean like the local city police, the state police, the county sheriff's office, etc., as a Fed.
The reason why you want to do this is because a lot of the times they know the environment better than you.
They've arrested some of these guys for more petty crimes.
They know who they are.
They know who their family is.
They know information on these individuals that you might not necessarily know as a Fed.
So it's very important to work with your state and local partners, man.
They're invaluable resources.
All right.
So you work with the state and locals and you start to build a case and you start to identify members in the organization that are lower level.
Why is this important?
Well, guys, the reason why it's important is because for you to break into any criminal organization, you need to be able to identify, apprehend, right, and recruit informants.
All right.
Informants are the magic key when it comes to any type of criminal investigation, especially in investigations that are heavily dependent upon other conspirators, right?
Drug trafficking, RICO, gang cases, et cetera.
All these cases involve multiple conspirators.
So you need insight into how the criminal activity is conducted, right?
Excuse me.
So once you go ahead and identify lower members of the organization, you're going to go ahead and find ways to get these individuals jammed up.
It might be you get one of them picked up for selling drugs.
It might be one of them gets caught, you know, in a situation where they were committing some type of criminal activity, or you have some kind of charge over their head, or they might be an illegal alien or they're a green card holder.
And you're able to go ahead and tell them, listen, if you don't cooperate, you're going to get the, I'm going to go ahead through the process and make sure that you get deported, et cetera.
These are all things that you can use to have leverage on the crook to have them go ahead and cooperate with you.
And that's why immigration is such an important tool.
And when I was an agent myself, I used to utilize it all the time where a guy, right?
He might have come to the United States when he was three years old.
He doesn't know what it's like back in Mexico.
He doesn't even speak the language.
He's lived here his entire life.
So he doesn't want to go back.
So a lot of the times they'll cooperate just so they don't get deported back to a foreign country that they don't know anything about.
And then bam, you got your informant, right?
So once you got your source, right, or source, once you get your first source, you want to go ahead and start working your way into the organization.
This can be done through the recorded meetings.
This can be done by purchasing narcotics from other members of the organization.
It could be having the informant go ahead and meet with these individuals and talk about criminal activity.
Any types of, these are all ways that you can go ahead and start to gather evidence.
And what you're going to do a lot of the times is you're going to have this source where a wire or introduce an undercover to the operation.
Introducing an undercover is pretty hard, though, because when you introduce an undercover, a lot of times they'll be like, I don't trust this guy, blah, blah, blah.
So you're going to have to a lot of time to rely on the informant.
And what you do is, as you have this one source that's into the organization, you want to start developing more informants.
Why?
Well, the reason for that, guys, is because when you have more sources, it validates a lot of the information you're getting.
So if you got one crook telling you, yo, this guy's the top of the organization.
He's the main guy, right?
Or you got five crooks telling you, yo, he's the main guy.
He does XYZ.
Well, guess what?
It's going to be more credible when you have five different people saying the same exact thing versus only one person.
And keep in mind, guys, a lot of these informants aren't necessarily upstanding citizens, if you know what I'm saying.
A lot of times they're criminals themselves.
A lot of times they're crooks.
A lot of times they have long criminal histories.
Maybe they're not credible witnesses because they've gotten caught lying under oath before or they've been arrested for false statements, whatever.
These are not necessarily your best witnesses.
So a lot of the times you need more than one, right, to corroborate information.
One crook's testimony is never enough to put another crook in jail.
Guys, one more time for y'all.
One crook is never enough to put another crook in prison.
You typically need at least two, three, four, five, six different witnesses, unless that witness was directly there and he witnessed some kind of crime.
And then you have corroborating pieces of evidence that corroborate that witness's testimony.
But that witness in itself saying, yo, he's the one that pulled the trigger and you don't got forensics, you don't got something else to back it up, it's never going to be enough.
You need more than one witness, okay?
Which is why this case right here, this YSL case, I am a thousand percent sure they probably have a whole bunch of informants.
They have a whole bunch of people cooperating, and that is why they're in a position where they're like, you know what?
Let's start to make things a little bit simpler now.
Let's start giving out plea deals.
Let's get all these guys in our back pocket, okay?
So that if we need someone to testify, we could call any of these guys here because all these guys that took plea deals are on the fucking hook.
All of them.
They're all on the hook.
All right.
And if they're not on the hook and they decide, well, I don't want to testify.
Congratulations.
You're going back to prison.
Okay.
Next thing you know, You're going to go do whatever amount of time that you were supposed to do that you ended up getting freed from because you agreed to testify in trial, right?
So that typically is how you build your way.
And as you get informants into the organization, this is where you can start to do recorded phone calls.
This is where you start doing recorded meetings.
This is where you get your evidence so that you can go ahead and do wiretaps.
Okay, there were wiretaps involved in this investigation with this YSL case.
And I talked about that as well on Academics stream.
Matter of fact, let me see here if I can see recorded right.
I'm going to go ahead and pull up for y'all some what has me very concerned with this investigation and why Young Thug is in a lot of trouble, right?
So they got recorded jail calls, right?
Let's see here.
Recorded jail call.
Video call, recorded video call.
Hmm.
Okay.
I know they have, let me put intercept here.
I know for a fact that they have intercepts on this case.
You know what?
It was closer to the end.
Now, in the indictment, guys, they actually have, look, they got like Instagram posts here, right?
They got all kinds of stuff on this indictment.
They got pictures.
Let me find it here.
I know it was towards the end.
They got a bunch of people.
Bam.
So, this right here, right?
Defendants Damien, Demekion Garlington, and Quantavius Greyer, associates of ISL.
Well, YSL, when, while speaking over a cell phone to an incarcerated Fulton County inmate, discussed killing another Fulton County jail inmate who had recently attacked a YSL associate incarcerated at the Fulton County Jail and overact in furtherance of the conspiracy.
Now, from what I know, they were able to get a phone into the jail.
So that tells me that this phone that they got into the jail was being intercepted.
Okay.
And then here they got while speaking over a cell phone to an incarcerated Fulton County inmate, right?
Because if it had just been a jail call, they would have said that.
Right?
So that made me have a red flag.
And then also, there was another one, guys.
If I could find it, because this is a very, this is like a 60-plus-page indictment here.
Yeah, they got so many things.
Look at this.
Defendant Christian Eppinger and Antonio Sumlin, Mosutsa YSL did commit the felony offense of conspiracy to commit murder by discussing how to obtain permission of slime, aka Jeffrey Williams, to make a second attempt to murder Rayshawn Bennett, aka YFN Lucci while Rayshawn Bennett was incarcerated at the Fulton County Jail.
Said first attempt to murder Rashawn Bennett being alleged in Act 144 discount in violation of Georgia law pursuant to such and such.
So look at that, bro.
got like they got everything man uh uh defendants marquis huey uh tenquarius men man These names are a mouthful.
Did unlawfully commit the felony offense of possession of a telecommission device by an inmate when incarcerated while incarcerated in the Fulton County jail.
Did possess without authority a communication device to win a cell phone beyond the guard line in violation of Georgia law.
So this cell phone that they snuck in, guys, I'm pretty sure was tapped because they were able to gain evidence from a cell phone, right?
That was allowed in.
So they got a cell phone into the jail and that thing was wired up.
How the hell are they going to get a cell phone into the jail used by members of the gang if not for informants, huh?
So, guys, it's, yeah, man.
This is, I mean, these are just some examples.
I go into more detail on this Rico on the other video, if you guys want, where I literally go charge by charge on each of the things.
But, but, yeah, man, what they're basically doing, guys, is they're getting informants, witnesses, and people on plea deals so that they can go ahead and come back to Jeffrey Williams, aka Young Thug, because that's who they really want, by the way.
They can go to him and say, Listen, bro, we got 100-plus witnesses that will go ahead and testify against you.
Plead guilty, or if you want to go to trial, we'll be ready to go.
And from what I understand, they haven't given him a plea dealer.
If they did, it was something wild, like 50 years to life that he's not going to take.
So it's not looking too good for Young Thug.
But I will say that they were able to go ahead and get some of their search warrant evidence thrown out because they said that it was an unlawful search.
Some of the cell phone stuff, some of the drugs, I think a firearm or a couple firearms, they were able to go ahead and get that stuff thrown out.
So that's a small W for Young Thug, but that does not invalidate all the other evidence that they have in this investigation, which, once again, guys, look, they got charges starting when?
In 20, if I want to say 2012, something wild like that.
Let's look.
The first, right?
It's by year, right?
So you come down, and the first offense, January 25th, 2013, man, is when they first started racking up charges against these guys.
Damn near 10 years.
10 years they've been looking at these dudes, bro.
That is the first count of the first act of this indictment.
Okay.
And look, acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.
All these things, man, all the way up until they got arrested in 2022, guys.
They had charges on these dudes.
Or they had acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.
And again, this is what happens when you're going after a gang.
All you have to do is articulate that they're committing criminal activities in furtherance of the gang.
Okay.
And you go, look at all this stuff here.
Like, just all kinds.
And they've been looking.
And then this one right here was the big one, right?
The fundamentals, defendants, Javaris Bradford, Justin Cobb, DeMonte Kendrick, Demise McCullen, and Shannon Stillwell, Associate Weiss L. Did unlawfully and with malice afterthought commit the felony offense of murder by causing a death of Donovan Thomas Jr., a human being, by shooting Donovan Thomas Jr. with a firearm in violation of Georgia law pursuant to OCGA 1651, which is an act of racketeering activity and an overact in furtherance of the conspiracy.
Okay.
This guy, okay, Donovan Thomas Jr., guys, aka Peanut, was a friend, a close friend of YFN Lucci.
And this is what prompted the gang war in Atlanta.
And this happened in 2015.
So they've been looking at Young Thug for a very, very long time.
Okay.
And I actually went through all the lyrics that they use against Young Thug, Young Thug, when he were trying to charge him.
Matter of fact, you know what?
Let's have a little bit of fun with this.
I'll show y'all real fast just how little how much of a non-giving of fuckatude Young Thug had, right?
So you go back to my video, right?
Let me find it here.
I put time stamps in, which I always do, guys.
I always put time stamps in the videos for y'all.
Let's see here.
And it was from lyrics from Bad Boy featuring Juice World self-snitching.
Okay.
He throws up the rake.
Okay.
Let's go ahead.
I'm going to.
This is from the original video, by the way, guys.
Not to be confused.
All right.
It looks like, and smoking a blunt.
But anyway, let's go ahead.
I hope I don't get hit with Gabby right here on this bad boy, but let's who dares wins, right?
As the SAS would say.
So this song right here, Bad Boy, we're going to go start with 119 and 122.
All right.
And this is the first lyric here.
Fair use of my own content, goddammit.
This was actually a very cool music video, the concept.
Watch the way you've been around me for the breath, boy.
Better watch the way you breathe around me before that breath be your last boy, which is interesting to me that they're using Juice World's lyrics on this against Thug.
But again, and the other thing, too, I want to say is anybody, guys, was written by Nikki Minaj.
So I don't know how the state's going to go ahead, you know, and we also might get into some First Amendment issues as well here.
And for some of you guys that don't know, we got a lot of international viewers.
The First Amendment is freedom of speech, freedom to address how you want, freedom to express yourself how you want, etc.
The issue is that when you express yourself the way that you want, or you speak about certain things, and the government's able to corroborate your statements to actual crimes, that's when your protections of the First Amendment pretty much diminish.
And they did this to 6ix9ine as well, guys.
Use his lyrics against them as well on Billy and damn it.
What other song was it that they used against him?
It was Billy, and I'll think of the other one, but yeah.
Okay, so there might be something that we don't know about this lyric in particular that just and young thug gives himself a huge self-snitching on this song.
You guys just wait for it.
World is saying that the state may know.
Because remember, the indictment, guys, it's kind of giving you an overall broad sense of what's being charged and why they're charging it.
But we need to actually look at the goddamn police reports to know the intimate details of why they're using these specific lyrics and are they able to tie it back to actual criminal activity.
Let me really make that very clear for you guys, okay?
Please rewind that.
What you guys got to understand here is that, right?
So you guys can see the lyrics right here, right?
You better watch the way you breathe around me before that breath be your last boy.
And Juice World was the one that said that lyric, right?
So you're probably wondering, well, why the fuck are they charging Young Thug, right, on lyrics that Juice World is saying?
And the thing is, is that it does this infringe on the First Amendment.
And the thing is, with the First Amendment, guys, is like I said before, the First Amendment protects you unless the government's able to identify your speech is actually connected to criminal activity because that's considered confessions and or comments of a party opponent, right?
And when you are, you know, a defendant, well, you are a party to the case, just like the state is a party in your party, and you're saying it, right?
It's basically it's you unless electronic surveillance on this investigation.
That's a fact at this point.
The fact that they're having, you know, they're able to say conversations were heard.
Like, how are you hearing these conversations?
Okay, so he says this, right?
I shot, bro.
So I shot at his mommy.
Now he no longer mentioned me.
I had on Margiella's when I shot at the cunt.
Act like you want war and they're going to smoke you like a blunt.
Okay.
Now, the reason why this is relevant, guys, is because YFN Lucci's mom was shot at, okay, at her house.
And when she shot, when she got shot, they're pretty sure that it was Young Thug's people that shot at her.
And he mentioned this in a song.
So bam, now they're able to use that song against him because they were able to independently corroborate.
Yeah, YFN Lucci's family was shot at.
And we suspect that it was Young Dug that did it.
And then Young Thug puts out that song and actually says he's literally.
I shot at his mommy.
And I'm going to show y'all the actual lyric that he said in the song, which is crazy.
I shot at his mommy.
Now he no longer mentioned me.
I had on Margiela's when I shot at the cunt.
Act like you want war and they're going to smoke you like a blunt.
Yeah.
So, and why FN Lucci's mom did actually get shot at, man.
And if you guys want more details like this, go watch that YSL breakdown.
I go into more details as to all the times he self-snitched on himself and all the time stamps are there, as y'all can see.
But yeah, bro, it was a big L. Definitely a big L in that situation.
But yeah, anyway, guys, that sums it up.
Hope you guys enjoyed that episode.
Let me hit some of these chats before.
And I'm going to go ahead and record a serial killer episode for you guys.
We're going to do Samuel Little since you guys wanted him.
People seem to forget how O Block Big Mike got 28 years, now appealed to 11 for refusing to testify against King Vaughn after taking a plea deal.
Yes, thank you.
Somebody very good point.
That is true.
Shout out to you, bro.
Because again, he had agreed to testify, and he was not necessarily, you couldn't plead the fifth because they weren't going to charge him with that because he was going to agree to testify.
Shout out to you, my friend.
It's storm season.
Could you squeeze in a little bit about Brittany tonight or next week?
Brittany?
What are you talking about?
Brittany.
Brittany, who?
Spears?
She's going crazy right now, though.
I think I'm caught up.
Okay.
Cool.
I think we're caught up here.
So, all right, guys.
Hope you enjoyed that episode, man.
We broke down the Gunnis situation.
Like I said before, he might not overtly snitch yet, man, but basically, the prosecution has him in their back pocket, as well as all the other people that are pleading guilty.
And Young Doug, if he decides to go to trial, more than likely is going to lose because they're going to have all these guys that they gave a plea agreement to come in and testify because Young Doug is who they actually want.
As you guys can see, he was linked to murders, shootings, etc.
And he's the top dog that they want to go after, man.
So, anyway, with that said, guys, like the video on your way out.
Love y'all.
Hope you guys enjoyed this one.
And yeah, man, I'll catch you guys tomorrow for Money Mondays on Fresh and Fit.
Peace.
I'm a special agent with Homelands Investigations, okay, guys.
HSI.
The cases that I did mostly were human smuggling and drug trafficking.
No one else has these documents, by the way.
Here's what Fed covers: Dr. Lafredo confirmed lacerations due to stepping on glass.
Murder investigation.
He's been reaching in his jacket.
You don't know.
And he's positioning.
You're facing two counts of two legitimate murders.
Racketeering and Rico conspiracy.
Young Slime Life, here and after referred to as YSL to the Defendants.
6ix9ine.
And then this is Billy Seiko right here.
Now, when they first started, guys, 6ix9ine ran with.
I'm a Fed.
I'm watching this music video.
You know, I'm bothering my head like, hey, this shit lit.
But at the same time, I'm pausing.
Oh, wait, who this?
Right?
Oh, who's that in the back?
Firearms and Browser.
AKA Bush IC violated.
You're ordering to stay away from the victim.
This is the one that's going to fuck him up because this gun is not traceable.
Well, what happened at the gun range?
Here's your boy 42 Doug right here on the left.
Okay.
Sex trafficking and sex priority.
They can effectively link him paying an underage girl.
I mean, look like 51.
And the first bomb went off right here.
Shut down a backpack at the site of the second explosion.
Two terrorists, their brothers, the Zokar, Sarnev, and Tamar Land Sarnev.
When the cartel ships drugs into the country.
As this guy got arrested for espionage, okay?
Trading secrets with the Russians for monetary compensation.