Justice Department Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Prosecutions Complete
Source: SPLC
January 12, 2015 - 3:47 pm
The Justice Department targeted the “worst of the worst” in its just-concluded successful prosecutions of one of the largest and most-violent racist gangs in the United States – the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
The man who supervised the six-year investigation, James Trusty, told Hatewatch in an exclusive interview today that the federal prosecutions didn’t eradicate the racist gang, but dealt a “severe blow” to its leadership and ability to commit crimes.
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), established in the early 1980s, is considered one of the most violent racist crime syndicates in the United States, modeled after the Aryan Brotherhood, a California-based prison gang formed during the 1960s.
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The racketeering charge encompassed various crimes carried out by the gang — murders, attempted murders, conspiracies, arsons, assaults, robberies and drug trafficking — as part of its enterprise. The Justice Department dropped plans in September 2013 to seek the death penalty against some of the defendants. Karpel worked with six assistant U.S. attorneys from the four U.S. Attorney Offices in Texas, along with three state prosecutors and two other trial attorneys from the department’s gang unit. The prosecutors supervised a team of 30 federal, state and local investigators – a task force that doubled that size during raids and arrests of the assorted defendants who weren’t already in prison. Investigators compiled 50,000 pieces of evidence in the precedent-setting case.
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Karpel said about 180 ABT gang members are now in the federal prison system.
Read more: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2015/01/12/justice-department-aryan-brotherhood-of-texas-prosecutions-complete/
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