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    The Mexican Mafia, a hit list, a swallowed note: Lawyer charged in murder plot

    by Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times Feb 26, 2024 5 minutes
    A guard watches from his tower at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, in 2013.

    LOS ANGELES — A criminal defense attorney was charged in a federal indictment unsealed last week with conspiring to murder a member of the Mexican Mafia who had fallen out of favor with the prison-based syndicate.

    Gabriel Zendejas Chavez was first indicted in 2018, accused of using the confidentiality afforded by his bar license to relay messages between Mexican Mafia members held in far-flung prisons. Witnesses have testified that he helped the organization traffic drugs, collect extortion proceeds and unmask government informants.

    Chavez, who taught English at high schools in Pomona while studying to become a lawyer at night, has maintained his innocence. At his trial in federal court in 2022, he testified that after he won a longtime Mexican Mafia member's release from prison in 2013,

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