Sex Money Murder
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Sex Money Murda (S.M.M.) is a street gang operating on the East Coast of the United States.
In the 1990s S.M.M. was established as a neighborhood based criminal organization in the Soundview section of the Bronx, New York.[citation needed] More specifically, the gang was fathered by Peter Rollack a.k.a. Pistol Pete from the Soundview Houses, a low income public housing development managed by the NYCHA.[citation needed] Pistol Pete is now serving a life sentence without parole on a plea bargin for killing and committing to kill 6 people.[citation needed] S.M.M. eventually affiliated itself with the Los Angeles based Bloods gang which emerged during the 1970s.[citation needed] Over a relatively short time the S.M.M. set spread to other locations. They are primarily located in the Soundview Neighborhood section of the Bronx, New York that includes Bronx River as well as many east Brooklyn neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and East New York.[citation needed] However they have also branched to cities as far as Newark, New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey, Lakewood, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[citation needed]
During the summer of 2002 Tommy Terrell Thompson established the S.M.M. in Jersey City, New Jersey. On November 14, 2004 an 18-count RICO Indictment charged Thompson with one count of racketeering conspiracy, one count of racketeering, encompassing specific and non-specific, ongoing acts of murder conspiracy, robbery and robbery conspiracy, heroin and cocaine conspiracy and distribution. The Indictment also charged Thompson with nine counts of violent crimes in aid of racketeering, including specific attempted murders, murder conspiracy, robberies and shootings; four counts of possession, use and carrying of a firearm for violent crime; one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, and one count of heroin distribution.[1] Thompson pled guilty on July 6, 2005, and admitted that he directed other members and associates of the Sex, Money, Murder set to commit acts of murder and assault and took part in one of the assaults himself. He also specifically admitted directing the murder of a Jersey City man whom Thompson believed was cooperating with cops against him and other gang members.[2]
