Fresh off of getting ordered to pay his sufferer greater than $10 million in damages, the previous Boston English High School dean who shot a scholar in 2015 has now pleaded responsible to federal racketeering conspiracy costs.
Shaun “Rev” Harrison, 63, pleaded responsible to anti-corruption regulation conspiracy costs in federal courtroom in Boston Tuesday. U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel scheduled sentencing for Nov. 15.
“Mr. Harrison stole the youth and innocence from impressionable minors, exploiting his position of trust to corrupt and coerce vulnerable and at-risk children into a world of criminal activity,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins wrote in an announcement.
Harrison’s involvement within the East Coast Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation — the notorious Latin Kings gang — was uncovered throughout the tried homicide investigation.
He had recruited sophomore Luis Angel Rodriguez into the gang and set him as much as promote pot in a foul deal the choose in that case stated left little proceeds for the troubled teen.
The deal ended when Harrison fired a bullet into the boy’s head on a snowy sidewalk in March 2015. The capturing maimed Rodriguez for all times and netted the imprisoned Harrison a $10,080,875 invoice of damages on Friday.
The man tasked as a mediator between lecturers and college students, helper of struggling and at-risk college students and director of an anger administration program, used his trusted place to herald recruits for the gang.
Harrison is the sixtieth and closing defendant to plead responsible within the long-running RICO case in opposition to the native Latin Kings chapters. He joins a doubtful gallery of convicted associates, together with lots of his personal former college students who he directed down the felony path.
Those embrace Wilson “King Dub” Peguero, who went from main the DK5 chapter of the Kings to a sentence of 30 months on RICO costs. It’s the same story for Alexis “King Lexi” Peguero, who was second in control of the identical unit and is now taking a look at 21 months.
There’s additionally “King Nasty,” who was as soon as only a Boston Public Schools child named Dante Lara. He’s serving two years in jail. And there’s Oscar “King O-Block” Pena, who will commerce “the life” for the time within the slammer for 32 months.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”