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... United Blood Nation (UBN) that started in Riker's Island Detention facility. This set includes independent Bloods from California, as well as members of New York sets including Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (NTG),
The business associate was arrested in November for allegedly laundering more than $100,000 for the Nine Trey Gangsters, a violent set of the Bloods street gang. If convicted of the charges, the defendant faces up to 20 years in prison.
Some of the leading African American inmates in the center organized the United Blood Nation as a self-protection group against the mostly Hispanic Latin Kings gang. The nation founded eight original Blood sets, one of which was the Nine Trey Gangstas. When some of the Nine Trey Gangsta members were released from prison in 1994, they headed for Harlem, where they took over abandoned buildings at 75 and 79 West 119th Street near Lenox Avenue. From that base, the gang used children, prostitutes, and homeless people to sell crack, as well as heroin and PCP.
