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REVEALED: Inmate charged with stabbing Derek Chauvin was FBI informant
2023-12-02
Mexican Mafia member as well
[PM] John Turscak, 52, became an FBI informant in 1997.

The inmate accused of stabbing Derek Chauvin 22 times at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona has been revealed to be a former FBI informant.

John Turscak, 52, who has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing Chauvin, became an FBI informant in 1997, according to the LA Times.

Turscak was sought out by the FBI while he was a member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang.
...also known as La eMe, it’s a Mexican American criminal organization in the United States. Despite the name, the Mexican Mafia did not originate in Mexico, rather it’s entirely an American criminal prison organization. Law enforcement officials report that the Mexican Mafia is the deadliest and most powerful gang within the California prison system.
He helped federal authorities with an investigation that resulted in the indictment of more than 40 Mexican Mafia members and associates, the outlet reports.
A good deed, even if done for ulterior motives...
However, Turscak was dropped as an informant after prosecutors said he admitted to extorting money, dealing drugs, and authorizing assaults while receiving monetary compensation as an informant.
Oh. That makes him sound like a gangster.
In 2001, Turscak was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to racketeering and conspiring to kill a rival in the prison-based gang.

At the time of his sentencing, he slammed the FBI and told US District Court Judge A. Howard Matz: "I didn't commit those crimes for kicks. I did them because I had to if I wanted to stay alive. I told that to the [FBI] agents and they just said, 'Do what you have to do.'"

Turscak has now allegedly admitted to stabbing the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020 and spoke with FBI agents following the attack on Chauvin.
Did he do that with FBI permission to stay alive, too?
Prosecutors said that Tursak used an improvised knife and allegedly told authorities he would have killed Chauvin had they not intervened, according to the Associated Press.

Prosecutors claim that Turscak later disclosed to FBI agents that he had been contemplating assaulting Chauvin for approximately one month due to the fact that he is a high-profile inmate, but denied intending to murder him.

Turscak informed the agents that he planned to attack Chauvin, 47, on Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving, as a symbolic nod to the Black Lives Matter movement and the "Black Hand" emblem affiliated with the Mexican Mafia gang, prosecutors said, according to the outlet.

Chauvin was sentenced to 252 months in prison, with credit for time served. He pleaded guilty in federal court in December 2021 to "willfully depriving Mr. Floyd of his constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer, resulting in Mr. Floyd's bodily injury and death."

An autopsy revealed that Floyd, who had been accused of trying to pass a counterfeit bill by a cashier who called police to the scene, had an excessive amount of drugs in his system. In testimony that came out of another case, a staffer stated that there had been pressure to ensure Chauvin was convicted due to the fact that the case had gained national attention. That attention resulted in "defund the police" movements nationwide.
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Posted by:Frank G

#8  No assassination is complete until the assassin is assassinated.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-12-02 12:34  

#7  If ever there was a case for the death penalty, members of the La Eme would certainly qualify. If you want to talk about hard boyz, these guys are every bit as bad as al Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, ISIS or any of them. The only difference is that, instead of Islam, their business is narcotics. I fear that our politicians have been corrupted by the likes of the Mexican Mafia just as badly as their counterparts in Mexico.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-12-02 11:38  

#6  As predicted here on Rantburg.
Posted by: Secret Master   2023-12-02 11:33  

#5  Defund the FBI.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-12-02 11:27  

#4  Free Derek Chauvin.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-12-02 11:27  

#3  Need him gone now, too.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-12-02 10:32  

#2  ^ this information now released in order to make it impossible for him to reveal that he did this botched hit for the government.
Posted by: Glenmore    2023-12-02 09:58  

#1  How somebody who helped federal authorities with an investigation that resulted in the indictment of more than 40 Mexican Mafia members and associates survived 20 years in prison?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-02 02:09  

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