Forty-One Gang Members and Associates in Five Districts Charged with Crimes Including Racketeering..

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: FBI

Forty-One Gang Members and Associates in Five Districts Charged with Crimes Including Racketeering, Murder, Drug Trafficking, and Firearms Trafficking

WASHINGTON—Forty-one members of various street gangs have been charged in indictments or criminal complaints unsealed today in five judicial districts, the Department of Justice announced today.

The federal indictments and complaints unsealed today charge members and associates of a variety of street gangs, including:

* Seven members of the Click Clack gang in Kansas City, Missouri;
* 12 Colonias Chiques gang members in Los Angeles;
* Two members and associates of the Sureno 13 and San Chucos gangs in Las Vegas;
* Seven MS-13 members in Washington;
* 13 Tri-City Bomber members and associates in the McAllen, Texas, area.

The charges in these separate cases relate to a wide range of alleged illegal activity, including racketeering conspiracy, murder, murder conspiracy, narcotics trafficking, robbery, and gun trafficking. The defendants will make initial court appearances in the respective districts in which they are charged. Teams of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers have today arrested 29 of these defendants, with additional arrests expected.

Read more: http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/forty-one-gang-members-and-associates-in-five-districts-charged-with-crimes-including-racketeering-murder-drug-trafficking-and-firearms-trafficking

[KansDem]

1. Nothing for the Bush/Cheney Gang in DC?

Oh, wait...they're no longer in DC...

But who are the "Click Clack" gang in KC and why haven't I heard of them? :shrug:

[flvegan]

2. Nobody with the power to do so (at least in the US) has enough of a spine

to do anything about war crimes, etc.

[socialist_n_TN]

3. Yet the bankers and capitalists go free......

Go figure.

[KoKo]

5. And according to AP Investigative report...Iraq Toruturers have been PROMOTED in CIA!

(I posted this in LBN Forum this AM...only got five replies) ...It's a huge detailed report on how torturers have risen through the ranks as Pentagon/CIA. No one held accountable.


AP IMPACT: At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions

Source: AP

AP IMPACT: At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Adam Goldman And Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press – 46 mins ago

A hard-charging CIA analyst had pushed the agency into one of the biggest diplomatic embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism. Yet despite recommendations by an internal review, the analyst was never punished. In fact, she has risen to one of the premier jobs in the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, helping lead President Barack Obama's efforts to disrupt al-Qaida.

In the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, officers who committed serious mistakes that left people wrongly imprisoned or even dead have received only minor admonishments or no punishment at all, an Associated Press investigation has revealed. The botched el-Masri case is but one example of a CIA accountability process that even some within the agency say is unpredictable and inconsistent.

Though Obama has sought to put the CIA's interrogation program behind him, the result of a decade of haphazard accountability is that many officers who made significant missteps are now the senior managers fighting the president's spy wars.

The AP investigation of the CIA's actions revealed a disciplinary system that takes years to make decisions, hands down reprimands inconsistently and is viewed inside the agency as prone to favoritism and manipulation. When people are disciplined, the punishment seems to roll downhill, sparing senior managers even when they were directly involved in operations that go awry.

Full Investigative report at...................
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110209/ap_on_re_us/us_cia_...


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110209/ap_on_re_us/us_cia_...

[KoKo]

4. Wow! Another BUST...Like the MAFIA! COOL!

:eyes:

[guitar man]

6. unreal

They'll go after these gang members but won't do a damn thing about shit like this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x374581

I mean, I do see "racketeering" on the list of charges in the OP, why not get all the racketeers then? :banghead:

[Frank Booth]

7. Are people on DU incapable of realizing that bad people also exist outside of

Wall Street and parts of the US government? I don't understand how arresting gang members is a bad thing.

Anyway, these idiots must not have been hard to catch. I searched for the LA gang on google and they've got videos of themselves all over youtube throwing up gang signs and showing off their gang tattoos. The price of trying to be cool....

[KoKo]

8. Easy for the DOJ to find. Wall Street Criminals & Torturers.."Too Complicated to Prosecute."

:-(

[MadHound]

9. Of course we realize that bad people exist outside of Wall St. and the hall of Power,

Hell, I lived down the street from two dueling crack houses, and my car took a bullet to prove it.

But the thing is, they're going after criminals who are pocketing what, a few hundred thousand dollars at most, maybe kill a handful of people.

Meanwhile, those who are ripping off billions and killing millions walk the face of this planet scott free and immune to prosecution, at least in this country.

[socialist_n_TN]

10. BINGO! They're going after the petty criminals............

with these gang members. Meanwhile they reward the big time criminals with tax breaks.