"The head of one of Newark's most violent street gangs, whose previous trial ended with a deadlocked jury, was convicted Friday on charges of murder and racketeering.

Corey Hamlet, the long-time leader of the local Grape Street Crips gang, was found guilty by a federal jury in Newark in a wide-ranging crime spree that included the ordering of daytime shootings, drugs sales, extortion and robbery that prosecutors said had terrorized Newark neighborhoods."

https://www.nj.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/07/a_second_trial_and_a_verdict_i.html


"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea