When does a bikers’ club become a gang? When does a college fraternity become a gang? When does a football team become a gang? This blog has covered the Waco shootout, the Michael Deng killing, the Vanderbilt rapes, the San Diego State fraternity drug markets, etc., etc. These activities sure look to her like organized gang activity, subject to gang-specific enhanced legal penalties.
The Penn State frat in question here (Penn State! It can really afford more sagas of sordid men.), already in trouble for all kinds of shit, is accused of
obtaining some of its funding by converting the pre-paid food plans of its pledges and confiscating and selling their prescription drugs. These funds were then used to pay for countless socials, presocials and parties at the fraternity house at which underage students were plied with alcohol and, in some cases, with drugs to facilitate sexual assault and abuse.
Yiiich.
June 9th, 2015 at 1:46AM
You didn’t link to the Penn State article
June 9th, 2015 at 5:18AM
AYY: Whoops. Many thanks. I’ll do that.
June 11th, 2015 at 12:03AM
Penn State is the second most expensive American public uni, about $100 bucks less than U of Pitt.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/01/us-usa-college..
The kid bringing the charges against this frat was willing to go into this deep a hole so that he could be extorted, assaulted, robbed, all so that he join a group which thought nothing of posting images of passed out women on social media. What does it say about the cognitive ability of many USAAmerican undergrads?