The reputed No. 2 leader for the Latin Kings was sentenced Friday to 40 years in federal prison for ordering violence in the street gang’s Little Village stronghold.
The sentence will run concurrently with a 20-year prison term already being served by Fernando King for a narcotics-related offense.
King's attorney said prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to hold King responsible for specific violence carried out by one of the nation’s largest and most feared gangs.
King asked U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle for leniency and contended he was trying to distance himself from the Latin Kings and establish his own business at the time of his arrest.
In court, King's elderly mother and youngest sister submitted written statements saying that King was kind and generous to his family. At several times during the hearing, King's mother became emotional and wiped tears from her eyes.
In sentencing King, Norgle said he had not accepted responsibility for the violence he helped cultivate in Little Village.
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