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Drug gang leader faces life prison term

10/28/2006

The leader of a Buffalo drug gang known as the Michigan Street Posse faces a life prison term after pleading guilty to a charge of running a continuing criminal enterprise.
Claude Russell Jr., 34, of Hagen Street, took a plea deal Friday, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

When FBI agents arrested Russell in October 2005, they said he was making so much money from drug sales that he had rented 19 different cars that year and had a $50,000 line of credit at the Seneca Niagara Casino. They also said he hadn't filed a federal tax return since 2002.

He is scheduled for sentencing on Feb. 16 before District Judge John T. Elfvin.