A leader of Chicago’s Four Corner Hustlers gang was sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a violent criminal enterprise that operated for decades on the West Side.
After a five-week trial, Labar Spann, 47, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy, two murders in aid of racketeering, and extortion in December 2018.
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Prosecutors alleged Spann was part of a criminal organization that terrorized areas such as West Garfield Park and North Lawndale, as well as the former LeClaire Courts public housing development, with drug trafficking, robberies, extortion, and violence.
On Monday, he received a mandatory life sentence in prison.
A federal jury decided that Spann participated in four premeditated homicides as part of the conspiracy, including the murders of Rudy Rangel, Willie Woods, George King, and Maximillion McDaniel between 2000 and 2003.
“At defendant’s direction, his co-conspirators ruthlessly murdered, extorted, and robbed anyone in their way, from rival gang members, to law enforcement cooperators, to innocent bystanders,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meghan C. Morrissey, Michelle J. Parthum, and Emily C.R. Vermylen argued in the government’s sentencing memorandum. “His actions ended the lives of four men, depriving their families of time with their loved ones. The harm and pain caused to these families can never be repaired.”
Cooperating gang members, eyewitnesses, law enforcement personnel, and expert witnesses who studied forensic evidence were all called to testify at trial.
Spann was indicted in 2017 with several co-defendants, all of whom have already been convicted.
