{"id":10893,"date":"2026-06-06T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/new-charge-over-gang-violence-added\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:59:08","slug":"new-charge-over-gang-violence-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/new-charge-over-gang-violence-added\/","title":{"rendered":"New Charge Over Gang Violence Added"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tAs trial approaches in Lil Durk\u2019s murder-for-hire case, federal prosecutors have brought an additional charge that accuses the rapper of racketeering by operating his Only the Family (OTF) label as a violent gang.<\/p>\n

\n\tDurk is scheduled to go to trial in August for allegedly putting a bounty on rival rapper Quando Rondo in retaliation for the 2020 killing of his close friend and collaborator King Von. Rondo was shot at a Los Angeles gas station in 2022 and survived, but another man who went by Lul Pab was killed in the crossfire.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Chicago drill star (Durk Banks) has faced murder-for-hire charges since 2024 over allegations he paid OTF crew members to carry out the killing, accusations he strongly denies. Now, prosecutors have beefed up his indictment with another charge under the federal Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering Activity (VICAR) statute, which broadly criminalizes violent gang activity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn or around 2010, defendant Banks formed an organization called Only the Family, or \u2018OTF,\u2019 which, among other things, produced and sold the hip hop music of artists primarily from the Chicago, Illinois area,\u201d reads the new indictment, filed Thursday (June 4) and obtained by Billboard<\/em>. \u201cAfter the formation of OTF, a subset of OTF members and associates (hereinafter the \u2018Banks Gang Enterprise\u2019) engaged in acts and threats of violence at the direction of defendant Banks, including murder and attempted murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis new charge not only exposes Durk to additional criminal liability, but it also clears a potentially easier path for prosecutors to secure a conviction at trial. That\u2019s because even if jurors don\u2019t buy that Durk ordered the Quando Rondo hit, they could convict him of racketeering based on a different alleged violent crime laid out in the case.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to the Quando Rondo incident, Thursday\u2019s indictment accuses Durk of an attempted 2019 murder in Atlanta, for which he was previously arrested but had the charges dropped. Prosecutors also claim he paid $1 million in cash for the murder of another rival gang member in Chicago in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tDurk\u2019s legal team said in a statement to Billboard <\/em>that the new indictment is \u201clipstick on a pig\u201d \u2014 that is, an attempt to superficially disguise something fundamentally flawed. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor nearly two years now, federal prosecutors have desperately tried to fend off challenges to a very weak case,\u201d said defense lawyers Drew Findling<\/strong>, Marissa Goldberg<\/strong>, Brian Steel<\/strong> and Christy O\u2019Connor<\/strong>. \u201cNow, just two months before trial \u2014 a trial that Durk Banks has demanded at every turn \u2014 they pull this pathetic pivot, recycling old accusations into a scrambling prosecutor\u2019s back-up plan: allege racketeering and as many unrelated false claims as possible.\u00a0This is not a sign of strength. It\u2019s an acknowledgment of weakness. The fact remains: Durk Banks is innocent, no matter how many indictments they want to throw at him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDurk\u2019s lawyers have repeatedly criticized the charges against him as overly vague and unethically prosecuted. They\u2019ve also sparred repeatedly with prosecutors over attempts to use the rapper\u2019s lyrics as evidence of crimes, a controversial practice that\u2019s still legal at the federal level despite pending legislation that would ban it.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThursday\u2019s indictment brings even more of Durk\u2019s music into the case by citing for the first time an unreleased music video for his 2020 song \u201cRedman.\u201d In this video, prosecutors say Durk is \u201cdepicted chasing and shooting an actor who looks substantially similar to\u201d Rondo and viewing online posts about Von\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThrough phone calls, text communications, social media posts and musical lyrics, members and associates of the Banks Gang Enterprise, including defendants Banks\u2026 would boast about and celebrate violence committed by members, associates, and affiliates of the Banks Gang Enterprise,\u201d reads the new indictment.<\/p>\n


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