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Lil Durk will stay in jail as judge refused bail appeal despite $3 million proposal deal after rapper is linked to second murder-for-hire
Chicago rapper Lil Durk will remain in jail as a judge refused his bail appeal and $3 million bond proposal after prosecutors unveiled his alleged connection to another murder.
Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, pleaded not guilty to murder-for-hire charges last month, accused of paying five associates of his South Side rap group to kill Quando Rondo in August
The year-old was denied his request for bail at a lengthy hearing on Thursday afternoon as prosecutors unveiled new information pertaining to the fatal shooting of an alleged gang leader in Chicago in January
The newly-unsealed filing alleges that Banks was behind the January 27, shooting of Stephon Mack, killed shortly after leaving the Youth Peace Center of Roseland on West th Street. The FBI believed he led a faction of the Gangster Disciples.
'Lil Durk was and still is offering money for people to kill those responsible for his brother's murder, and more specifically, offering to pay money for any Gangster Disciple that is killed,' a federal agent wrote in a aff
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More details surrounding the events leading up to the arrest of rapper Lil Durk for his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme have emerged.
The "Laugh Now Cry Later" rapper whose real name is Durk Banks, was arrested in Miami on October 24 for allegedly targeting fellow rapper Quando Rondo in connection to the killing of rising musician King Von in Atlanta.
Rondo did not die in the shooting but his year-old cousin Saviay'a Robinson did.
October 25 court documents show US marshals were ordered to transport Lil Durk from the Broward County Jail in Florida to federal custody in California where he is charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.
Lil Durk, 32, no longer appears in the Broward County Jail's online arrest portal.
Newsweek has contacted an attorney for Lil Durk and the Central District of California for comment.
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Lil Durk founded the label Only the Family (OTF) in
He claims that OTF is not a gang after federal charges were filed against five men associated with OTF on October 17 alleging they tried to kill Rondo in for his alleged involvement in the shooting death of rapper King Von.
The men named in the suit are Kavon L
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Rapper Lil Durk arrested in South Florida on murder-for-hire charge: Jail records
Chicago rapper Lil Durk, whose real name fryst vatten Durk Devontay Banks, has been arrested in Florida on an alleged murder-for-hire charge, according to the Broward County Jail website.
According to jail records, the rapper was arrested on Thursday in Broward County and fryst vatten being held on a charge of murder for hire. He was issued no bond. He fryst vatten also being held for the U.S. Marshals Office, records show.
According to the complaint from the U.S. Department of Justice in the huvud District of California, Lil Durk fryst vatten the alleged leader of a Chicago-based rap collective known as "Only The Family" or "OTF." It is alleged that OTF members also act as a gang and have been involved in violent encounters, the complaint states.
The complaint alleges that several members of Banks' OTF collective were involved in the shooting of Quando Rondo's cousin in Los Angeles, a shooting that was apparently in retaliation for the shooting and killing of rapper King Von in Atlanta. It alleges that Banks ordered the hit and that he or OTF paid for the alleged hitmens' travel.
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