| In SDNY Tekashi 6ix9ine Case
US Urges 30 Years for Aljermiah Mack
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread Scope
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 17 – Daniel Hernandez
a/k/a Tekashi 6ix9ine was
sentenced to 24 months of
total imprisonment on December
18 in a proceeding live
tweeted by Inner City
Press before U.S. District
Court Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer.
Now on
February 17 the US Attorney's
Office has asked Judge
Engelmayer to sentence one of
the two defendants convicted
at trial with 69's testimony,
Aljermiah "Nuke" Mack, to at
least thirty years in prison.
Assistant US
Attorney Michael D. Longyear
wrote, "Dear Judge
Engelmayer: Aljermiah
Mack was one of the
highest-ranking members of the
Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods
('Nine Trey'), a violent gang
with members who have
committed numerous acts of
violence and distributed
deadly narcotics throughout
New York City. Mack was
personally involved in the
distribution of narcotics and
he committed acts of
violence. He did all of
this after having been
convicted of several crimes,
including for narcotics and
firearms-related
offenses. To date, the
defendant has refused to
accept responsibility for his
actions. Accordingly,
the Government submits that a
sentence of more than 360
months’ imprisonment is
appropriate in this case... At
trial, cooperating witnesses
Daniel Hernandez and Kristian
Cruz identified the leaders of
both the Prison and Street
Lineups...ion against other
gang members and to enhance
Nine Trey’s reputation.
Both Cruz and Hernandez
testified that Mack robbed
Martin in April 2018 as part
of an ongoing intra-gang
dispute within Nine Trey."
Mack is
set to be sentenced on
February 24. Anthony "Harv"
Elisson's sentencing has been
pushed back to April 1. Inner
City Press will be there.
On
February 12 another of 69's
initial co-defendants Fuguan
Lovick a/k/a Fu Banga entered
in shackles for sentencing by
Judge Engelmayer. Inner City
Press aimed to at least
partially live tweet, but it
was not possible: no phone use
in courtroom and for various
reasons not otherwise
possible. The government was
asking for a sentence of from
90 to 96 months in jail, 84 of
them for pleading guilty to
shooting a gun at the
Barclay's Center in downtown
Brooklyn. Lovick declined to
speak (he had written a
letter); his lawyer Jeffrey
Pittel asked for one day on
Count 6.
Judge Engelmayer noted that
while Lovick had a number of
run ins with the law since
1999, none in the past seven
years, and jobs in Home Depot
and construction. His father
made him sell heroin; he
witnessed a murder on the way
to school.
As to the
shot, Judge Engelmayer said
that Daniel Hernandez was to
give a performance and Lovick
shot a gun over the heads of a
rival rapper's entourage.
Judge
Engelmayer: "I should say that
many shots taken in the
Barclays Center miss" - then
he credited Lovick with
missing his gun shot on
purpose, but still said it was
dangerous. He imposed a
sentence of 85 months, then
three years of Supervised
Release, in Connecticut where
Lovick's son lives. He wished
Lovick, and two relatives in
the gallery, well. And Inner
City Press, prohibited from
live tweeting the thoughtful
sentencing, ran and wrote
this. We'll have more,
including on April 1.
Inner City Press
covered the trial
Hernandez testified at, and
the other sentencings
in the case and will continue
to. The case is US v.
Jones, 18-cr-834
(Engelmayer). More on Patreon
here.
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