Eugene Henley Jr., moreover referred to as Massive U, has really been charged with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
Henley, a very long time chief of the Rollin’ 60s Group Crips street gang and self-proclaimed space protestor, stands charged of working a felony enterprise that participated in several racketeering felony offenses, consisting of extortion, human trafficking, fraudulence and homicide.
The felony difficulty, unsealed on Tuesday (March 18), affirms that Henley’s firm, described because the “Massive U Enterprise,” ran as a mafia-like entity from 2010 to as we speak. The enterprise presumably made use of Henley’s situation and hyperlinks with street gangs to daunt organizations and other people in Los Angeles.
Amongst some of the main accusations is Henley’s participation within the January 2021 homicide of an formidable rap artist, decided as R.W., that had really tape-recorded a diss monitor regarding Henley.
” Henley presumably drove R.W. to North Las Las vega, fired him within the head, and dragged the goal’s physique off Interstate 15 proper into the desert and left it in a ditch,” the docs assessment partially. “Henley went again to Los Angeles with Robinson and gotten workshop staff to go away whereas his affiliate eradicated security monitoring video from the workshop. Henley presumably in a while gotten witnesses to not converse to police regarding R.W.’s homicide.”
In enhancement to fierce felony offenses, Henley is charged of financial fraudulence. He presumably despatched a deceitful utility for a COVID-19 pandemic alleviation automotive mortgage, declaring his songs tag, Uneek Songs, was working at a $200,000 earnings in 2019, when it had actually sustained a $5,000 loss.
Henley is moreover charged of embezzling contributions made to his charity, Establishing Options, which was marketed as an organization aiding South Los Angeles younger folks forestall gang bodily violence and felony job.
Since Wednesday (March 19), Henley is considered a fugitive, whereas 2 numerous different claimed contributors of his felony enterprise, Sylvester Robinson and Mark Martin, have really been jailed. If based responsible, Henley can encounter an optimum sentence of life in authorities jail. The occasion is the end result of a four-year examination by the FBI, Inside Income Service Dangerous man Examination and neighborhood police, focused at combating gang bodily violence and organized felony offense in Los Angeles.
” The RICO charges versus Mr. Henley and his companions mirror a sample of felony offenses that runs the gambit from extortion to tax obligation evasion, all beneath the umbrella of an environment friendly felony firm led by Mr. Henley,” Distinctive Consultant accountable Tyler Hatcher, Inside Income Service Dangerous Man Examination, Los Angeles Space Office, acknowledged. “In Addition, Mr. Henley presumably fooled the Space of Los Angeles by working a philanthropic firm that marketed anti-gang choices whereas continuing felony job that was straight in distinction to his charity. IRS-CI is completely satisfied to companion with fellow police firms to discover these felony firms to safe our neighborhoods from extra damage.”
Henley aided launch the job of Nipsey Hussle and was when referred to as rap’s “godfather” by Wiz Khalifa. Henley previously provided 13 years behind bars after trying to burglarize a covert constable’s substitute of 33 further kilos of drug in 1991.
