SUSPECTS IN COURT IN MEXICO MOB CASE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Nearly two dozen reputed members of the Mexican Mafia appeared in a Los Angeles court Friday, listening to defense and prosecution lawyers argue about the time needed to prepare a complex murder and racketeering Traditionally, obtaining or extorting money illegally or carrying on illegal business activities, usually by Organized Crime . A pattern of illegal activity carried out as part of an enterprise that is owned or controlled by those who are engaged in the illegal activity. case. The 23 defendants charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act could face life in prison if convicted. The defendants are charged with conspiring to murder, or attempting the murder of two dozen people, including Ana Lizarraga, an East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. gang counselor who gave technical advice to actor-director Edward James Olmos Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated American actor and director. Some of his most memorable roles were Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver and Admiral William Adama in the during the filming of his prison drama "American Me." Lizarraga was slain May 13, 1992. Prosecutors allege she was shot a dozen times because Mexican Mafia gangsters didn't like the way they were portrayed in "American Me." |
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