Young Thug is going through eight costs within the sprawling RICO case towards his Young Slime Life (YSL) collective.
The chares towards the Atlanta rapper (actual title Jeffery Williams) have been confirmed in courtroom paperwork on Wednesday (January 4) as day certainly one of jury choice within the trial started in Fulton County, Georgia.
The RICO indictment incorporates a complete of 65 counts levied towards Thug and different members of YSL, who prosecutors allege is a “criminal street gang” affiliated with the Bloods that’s behind a sequence of violent crimes within the Atlanta space, together with homicide and armed theft.
Thugger’s eight counts embody conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and two counts of participation in legal road gang exercise, which have been filed when the rapper was initially indicted in May 2022.
He has additionally been charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of codeine with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine, possession of a firearm and possession of a machine gun.
The drug and gun costs have been filed in August and stem from gadgets seized throughout a police search of Thug’s residence in Buckhead, Atlanta throughout his May arrest.
CT 58: Possesion of Marijuana w/intent to distribute
Ct. 59: Poss of Codeine w/intent to distribute
Ct. 60: Poss of Cocaine
Ct. 61: Poss of Firearm
Ct. 62: Poss of Machine Gun pic.twitter.com/vtqZ3mCNLD— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) January 4, 2023
Young Thug was certainly one of 28 YSL members arrested within the RICO case, however that quantity has since been whittled all the way down to 14. Several defendants have taken plea offers in latest weeks, together with Gunna, who was launched from jail final month after pleading responsible to a single racketeering cost.
While Young Thug has maintained his innocence, the plea offers are anticipated make his combat for freedom an excellent greater uphill battle.
While accepting his negotiated plea in December, Antonio “Mounk Tounk” Sledge admitted in courtroom that a number of YSL members have been behind the 2015 homicide of Donovan Thomas, and he and different YSL associates have been paid by Young Thug to “lay low” after the killing.
Sledge, who was sentenced to fifteen years probation after pleading responsible to conspiracy to violate the RICO Act and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, additionally agreed to testify at trial if obligatory.
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Also on the state’s witness record are a slew of high-profile Hip Hop figures together with Lil Wayne, Birdman and YFN Lucci. Birdman was implicated together with Young Thug within the 2015 taking pictures of Wayne’s tour bus, whereas Thugger allegedly ordered the jail stabbing of Lucci final March.
The protection’s witness record, in the meantime, consists of fellow Atlanta rapper Killer Mike and veteran Hip Hop executives Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles — who helped steer Thug to stardom — in addition to quite a few Hip Hop consultants and authors.
The high-profile trial is anticipated to final for no less than 9 months, with the media pool schedule operating via September 23, in accordance with Law & Crime reporter Cathy Russon.
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