Prison Gang Case Puts Role Of FBI Informants Under Scrutiny

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 29, 2003 | Julia Reynolds, George Sanchez, Center for Investigative Reporting

[Scenic Sounds]

For more than 10 years, one of California's most brutal criminal organizations has been operating from behind the walls of the state's highest- security prison. From cells in Pelican Bay State Prison, Nuestra Familia's leaders have ordered murders and assaults and controlled much of the drug trade in Northern California cities, according to court and law enforcement records.

[Scenic Sounds]

Ends and means, means and ends.

[Jack Black]

And to think the INS could probably deport most of this crime syndicate.

[coloradan]

I wonder why the FBI has a problem with a mob that kills a few people, when they themselves gassed and burned 80 people to death in Waco Texas? Oh yeah, it's because they can't prosecute the surviving family members of the murder victims, like they did in Waco.

[Cicero]

If they feel bad about working with gang informants, how do they feel about working with Lon Horiuchi?

[Mark was here]

Lawsuits seeking more than $2 billion have been filed against the government by families of people murdered in the course of informant-based investigations.

Who really cares if a few people were murdered and the tax payers are on the hook for another 2 billion dollars, as long as the War on Drugs does what it is supposed to do, provide government workers with a cover for feeding at the public trough, all is well in the world.