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| Nazi Jail Gang Links With Mob |
| By New York Daily News |
| Published: 11/08/2002 |
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The Aryan Brotherhood the vicious jailhouse gang that John Gotti used for at least two murder contracts has forged alliances with the Mafia outside prison walls and expanded into New York, the Daily News has learned. Court papers coupled with interviews and information gleaned from dozens of formerly classified FBI documents reveal that the murderous gang is involved in extortion and drug trafficking with the Gambino crime family. In a 110-page federal indictment handed up late last month in Los Angeles, 40 Aryan Brotherhood members were charged with 16 murders and 16 attempted murders to control drug trafficking, gambling and extortion among inmates in federal prisons. Search warrants in the case were executed in 12 states, including New York, where Brotherhood leaders both in and out of prison are said to be using formerly incarcerated members to form criminal networks on the outside. 'The Aryan Brotherhood's main affiliation with New York is through partnership with organized crime families,' said Los Angeles Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Jessner, a prosecutor in the case. The New York warrant was executed at the two-story frame home of suspected Aryan Brotherhood 'point person' Wilhemina DeCarlo in Beacon, about 70 miles north of the city. According to court papers, 'Aryan Brotherhood members and associates are told to contact point people to obtain lists of businesses and narcotics traffickers that are potential targets for extortion or robbery, to obtain lists of businesses that will assist in laundering money and to acquire firearms.' DeCarlo, who has not been indicted, allegedly was a conduit between Philip Fortman, a member of the Brotherhood's powerful California Council at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Calif., and other gang members in and out of prison. In one letter to DeCarlo, Fortman attempted to determine whether an inmate 'remained loyal to the Aryan Brotherhood,' according to Special Agent James Bauer of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who was involved in the search. It was not known how DeCarlo responded, if at all. But, according to federal intelligence reports, gang rules punish disloyalty by death. Candidates for membership in the Aryan Brotherhood undergo a year's probation in which they are called upon to prove blind loyalty, sometimes by carrying out orders to kill, according to federal experts. The Brotherhood is so feared that even made members of the mob pay its leaders tribute behind bars, prosecutors said. As early as 1983, another declassified FBI report reveals, mobsters who 'were powerful on the streets but at the mercy of any nut with a knife while in prison' were being shaken down by Brotherhood thugs. In return for protection, the report noted, mobsters would 'provide money, drugs and assistance' to Aryan Brotherhood members on the outside. Eventually, however, the gang and the mob realized that each had something to gain from the other. Gotti turned twice to the Aryan Brotherhood to carry out murder contracts, according to law enforcement sources and court papers: first in 1996, to kill a man who slugged him in the federal pen at Marion, Ill., and again in 1997, to vent his wrath against Gambino consigliere Frank Locascio, whom he believed had turned against him. |
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