Junior Black Mafia - Aaron Jones

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He also forms an alliance with the Chicago South Club, an Irish Mob group, to provide security for Club operations. They also created fake community groups, such as the Council for Youth and Urban Development as fronts to receive government funding.

Some of the guys that hustled with me had a beef with them after they left me and went on their own. The Black Mafia, also known as the Philadelphia Black Mafia ( PBM), Black Muslim Mafia and Muslim Mob, was a Philadelphia-based African-American organized crime syndicate.March 13, 1989 – JBM soldier Neil (Phil Fresh) Wilkinson shot to death when ambushed by JBM enforcer “Big Tone” Reid and his driver Kevin (Black) Bowman. The Strike Force concluded the overdose was arranged to "ensure his silence in a Black Mafia related assault case". But then we started to get the same thing from other informants and from other agencies and I knew there had been some conflicts between blacks and Jamaicans. According to a United States Senate sub-committee on organized crime during the 1980s, one of the most sophisticated, corporate-like, structured, organized crime groups outside of the Italian mafia was The Young Boys Inc. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.

Neither Abdul-Jabbar nor Abdul Khaalis were home that fateful night, but that didn't stop the Black Mafia members from murdering seven people, including five children. Under the guise of seeking unity and an end to factional violence, Christian sought to exploit both groups financially.

Leonard Patterson was most likely the person who came up with the name JBM and the idea for the rings.

Shot to death by Charles Russell, under contract by George "Bo" Abney, over a drug territory dispute. Louis Gateway Strike Force is a collaboration of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to combat violent gang crimes and drug trafficking throughout the bi-state region. citation needed] Members were charged with different crimes including but not limited to heroin and cocaine distribution, rape, and murder. Nearly two decades after its demise, the Black Mafia is in the spotlight again through the Philadelphia mayoral election where both candidates have been linked by the media to a former member of The Black Mafia and its spin-off organization, The Junior Black Mafia.The JBM espoused an amalgam of characteristics which purposely emulated LCN and Black Mafia control over organized crime and its fondness for symbols and ceremony. citation needed] As the gang gained local control, separate meetings were held for those holding positions of power and those who were general members. I read or heard that the Shower Posse had said something that the JBM was a crew of clowns or something of that nature but listen to this, the Jamaican Shower Posse had several members flip. By the early 1970s, the large narcotics empires created by Nicky Barnes, Frank Matthews, and Frank Lucas began expanding beyond Harlem as Lucas sought to ultimately control a large-scale drug trafficking operation by gaining control of a network from Indochina directly to the streets of ghettos across the country.

JBM members spent weekends flashing their wealth at “The Plateau” in Fairmont Park made famous in Will Smith’s 1991 smash-hit song Summertime. In addition to using La Cosa Nostra (LCN) as a model for their organization, JBM members and associates have developed a number of links with LCN members and associates. While they originally moved into the center of the city, as more arrived, they moved to the south parts of the city where living was cheaper. Samuel Christian’s FBI Most Wanted poster from late 1973, a mugshot from 1968, and a funeral announcement.But by the late 1960s, new street gangs emerged as Black consciousness fell away with political leadership. Tortured and hanged in prison for turning state's evidence against the Black Mafia in the Hanafi murder case.