Forty defendants – ranging in age from 21 to 62 -- face a 147-count indictment in what federal authorities on Thursday called “the largest federal racketeering case in South Carolina history,” according to a report.
Charges brought by a federal grand jury against the defendants include murder, kidnapping, firearms distribution and drug trafficking, the office of U.S.
Attorney Peter McCoy announced in Columbia, S.C., FOX Carolina of Greenville, S.C., reported. The inmates often used contraband cell phones to order the crimes from inside the state’s corrections facilities on behalf of a gang called the Insane Gangster Disciples, acting assistant attorney general Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s criminal division said in a statement,.
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