“The First Amendment does not protect people from prosecutors using it as evidence if it is so,” she said. Prosecutors say the alleged racketeering conspiracy was used to further the gang’s interests, using lyrics and music videos as evidence.įulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Tuesday at a news conference announcing the charges that she respects the First Amendment right to free speech, but she believes the song lyrics cited in the indictment are “overt and predicate acts” that support the RICO charge. Monday's indictment names 26 other defendants outside of Young Thug and Gunna and includes a wide-ranging list of 181 acts that prosecutors say were committed beginning in 2013. YSL is affiliated with the national Bloods gang. Young Thug, 30, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, is accused of co-founding a violent street gang named Young Slime Life commonly known as YSL that committed multiple murders, shootings and carjackings over roughly a decade. The 88-page indictment filed Monday in Fulton County Superior Court accuses Gunna, 28, whose given name is Sergio Kitchens, of violating Georgia’s anti-racketeering law. ![]() Rapper Gunna was booked into an Atlanta jail Wednesday on a racketeering charge after he was indicted with fellow rapper Young Thug and more than two dozen other people for conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. ![]() Watch Video: ShowBiz Minute: Young Thug, Royals, Warhol
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