Trial set for SEpt 19. Looks like he didn't snitch. Man if this white boy gets through this unscathed and the only lost is financially, this young dumb generation will consider him 2pac status
Daniel Hernandez, aka, Tekashi69, aka 6ix9ine, appears at an arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. He was arrested that day on an assault warrant from Texas. (Jefferson Siegel / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Tekashi69 pleaded not guilty Monday in his gang racketeering and firearms case that could land him in prison for life.
The platinum-selling rap artist with rainbow hair and tattoos on his face received a Sept. 4 trial date as he appeared in federal court in Manhattan wearing a navy jumpsuit and shackles.
He sat apart from several co-defendants for security reasons after fellow gang members allegedly threatened his life in wiretapped phone calls intercepted earlier this month.
“One hundred percent not guilty,” is how Tekashi’s defense lawyer Lance Lazzaro described the plea after the arraignment.
“He says he’s innocent, and I think when the facts come out, it will be proven,” Lazzaro said.
Tekashi’s other lawyer, Dawn Maria Florio, said the defense was working on the “Gummo” rapper’s release.
“Prison is hard for anybody, especially someone who hasn’t done jail time before,” Florio said. “He’s taking it like a trooper, but he wants to come home to his family and his daughter.”
Prosecutors claim Tekashi, 22, was part of a criminal conspiracy that ordered robberies and shootings of rivals to maintain the status of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
Tekashi, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was charged along with five others in a sweeping indictment unsealed last week. If convicted as charged, the minimum sentence he faces is 32 years in prison.
The feds claims Tekashi “wreaked havoc” on New York City along with his ex-manager, Kifano (Shotti) Jordan, Jensel (Ish) Butler, Faheem (Crippy) Walter, Fuguan (Fu Banga) Lovick and Jamel (Mel Murda) Jones.
Jordan, Butler, Lovick and Jones were arraigned as well Monday and pleaded not guilty.
Walter also was due to face U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer on Monday but missed the arraignment because he’s still in the hospital for complications stemming from an injury suffered during an alleged shooting on Oct. 26.
The federal indictment claims that on April 3, Tekashi, Jordan, Butler and Walter robbed rivals at gunpoint in the lobby of a building at 40th St. and Eighth Ave.
Tekashi was allegedly sitting in an SUV filming the robbery.
On April 21, Lovick allegedly fired one shot inside the Barclays Center, according to the indictment. Prosecutors said the incident during a boxing bout erupted over Tekashi's beef with fellow rapper Cassanova.
Speaking in court on Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Longyear said Tekashi was due to sing for one boxing opponent while the rival rapper was set to sing for the other.
“So, the two gang rivals were singing for different boxers?” Judge Engelmayer asked.
“Yes, your honor,” Longyear replied. Engelmayer nodded without saying anything for a few seconds.
Longyear then said Tekashi was escorted out of the arena.
“Who sang the intro song?” the judge asked in a follow-up, generating some laughs, including from the defendants.
“I don’t have that information for you, your honor,” the prosecutor replied.
According to prosecutors, the group’s reign of terror continued on July 16, when Tekashi, Jordan, Butler and Walter allegedly conspired to kill "an individual who had shown disrespect to Nine Trey.”
The plan didn’t work. Authorities said around 20 shots were fired at a cookout near Fulton St. and Utica Ave., and an innocent bystander was shot at in the foot.
“Members of Nine Trey, who wielded firearms and pushed highly addictive drugs onto New York City streets, allegedly showed an unprecedented level of violence this year,” Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Angel M. Melendez said in a statement last week.
Defense lawyers have yet to submit updated requests for bail, so Tekashi and his co-defendants were remanded back into custody after the hearing.
Judge Engelmayer first proposed to start the trial in May, but the defense lawyers unanimously opposed that date, saying they need more time to review the social media material and NYPD reports included in the indictment.
The judge then proposed a July start, but the lawyers asked for a date next fall.
“We’re talking about your clients being in custody for 10 (to) 12 months between the day of the arrest and the trial,” Engelmayer said.
“I’m working or the liberties of my client, who risks a 32-year minimum mandatory sentence if convicted in this trial. That extra two-and-a-half months to the fall makes a huge difference for the defense,” Jordan’s defense attorney said in court. “That’s something I’ve discussed with my client.”
At the end of the hearing, Jordan turned to the audience in the courtroom gallery and shouted, “I love all my family. We don’t fall. We don’t bend. We don’t break!”
He also called the hearing “entertainment.”
“We love you,” a supporter shouted back.
Daniel Hernandez, aka, Tekashi69, aka 6ix9ine, appears at an arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. He was arrested that day on an assault warrant from Texas. (Jefferson Siegel / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Tekashi69 pleaded not guilty Monday in his gang racketeering and firearms case that could land him in prison for life.
The platinum-selling rap artist with rainbow hair and tattoos on his face received a Sept. 4 trial date as he appeared in federal court in Manhattan wearing a navy jumpsuit and shackles.
He sat apart from several co-defendants for security reasons after fellow gang members allegedly threatened his life in wiretapped phone calls intercepted earlier this month.
“One hundred percent not guilty,” is how Tekashi’s defense lawyer Lance Lazzaro described the plea after the arraignment.
“He says he’s innocent, and I think when the facts come out, it will be proven,” Lazzaro said.
Tekashi’s other lawyer, Dawn Maria Florio, said the defense was working on the “Gummo” rapper’s release.
“Prison is hard for anybody, especially someone who hasn’t done jail time before,” Florio said. “He’s taking it like a trooper, but he wants to come home to his family and his daughter.”
Prosecutors claim Tekashi, 22, was part of a criminal conspiracy that ordered robberies and shootings of rivals to maintain the status of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
Tekashi, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was charged along with five others in a sweeping indictment unsealed last week. If convicted as charged, the minimum sentence he faces is 32 years in prison.
The feds claims Tekashi “wreaked havoc” on New York City along with his ex-manager, Kifano (Shotti) Jordan, Jensel (Ish) Butler, Faheem (Crippy) Walter, Fuguan (Fu Banga) Lovick and Jamel (Mel Murda) Jones.
Jordan, Butler, Lovick and Jones were arraigned as well Monday and pleaded not guilty.
Walter also was due to face U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer on Monday but missed the arraignment because he’s still in the hospital for complications stemming from an injury suffered during an alleged shooting on Oct. 26.
The federal indictment claims that on April 3, Tekashi, Jordan, Butler and Walter robbed rivals at gunpoint in the lobby of a building at 40th St. and Eighth Ave.
Tekashi was allegedly sitting in an SUV filming the robbery.
On April 21, Lovick allegedly fired one shot inside the Barclays Center, according to the indictment. Prosecutors said the incident during a boxing bout erupted over Tekashi's beef with fellow rapper Cassanova.
Speaking in court on Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Longyear said Tekashi was due to sing for one boxing opponent while the rival rapper was set to sing for the other.
“So, the two gang rivals were singing for different boxers?” Judge Engelmayer asked.
“Yes, your honor,” Longyear replied. Engelmayer nodded without saying anything for a few seconds.
Longyear then said Tekashi was escorted out of the arena.
“Who sang the intro song?” the judge asked in a follow-up, generating some laughs, including from the defendants.
“I don’t have that information for you, your honor,” the prosecutor replied.
According to prosecutors, the group’s reign of terror continued on July 16, when Tekashi, Jordan, Butler and Walter allegedly conspired to kill "an individual who had shown disrespect to Nine Trey.”
The plan didn’t work. Authorities said around 20 shots were fired at a cookout near Fulton St. and Utica Ave., and an innocent bystander was shot at in the foot.
“Members of Nine Trey, who wielded firearms and pushed highly addictive drugs onto New York City streets, allegedly showed an unprecedented level of violence this year,” Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Angel M. Melendez said in a statement last week.
Defense lawyers have yet to submit updated requests for bail, so Tekashi and his co-defendants were remanded back into custody after the hearing.
Judge Engelmayer first proposed to start the trial in May, but the defense lawyers unanimously opposed that date, saying they need more time to review the social media material and NYPD reports included in the indictment.
The judge then proposed a July start, but the lawyers asked for a date next fall.
“We’re talking about your clients being in custody for 10 (to) 12 months between the day of the arrest and the trial,” Engelmayer said.
“I’m working or the liberties of my client, who risks a 32-year minimum mandatory sentence if convicted in this trial. That extra two-and-a-half months to the fall makes a huge difference for the defense,” Jordan’s defense attorney said in court. “That’s something I’ve discussed with my client.”
At the end of the hearing, Jordan turned to the audience in the courtroom gallery and shouted, “I love all my family. We don’t fall. We don’t bend. We don’t break!”
He also called the hearing “entertainment.”
“We love you,” a supporter shouted back.
