Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Jason Soto, also known as “Twin,” a leader of the Cypress Gangsta Crips (CGC), a subgroup of the Eight Trey Crips based in the Cypress Hills Houses of East New York, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of all three counts of a superseding indictment charging him with murder in-aid-of racketeering, causing the death of CGC leader Shakim Rivera through the use of a firearm on February 22, 2015, and possession with intent to distribute cocaine in late 2024. The verdict followed a two-week trial before United States District Judge Ramón E. Reyes. When sentenced, Soto faces a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.