Wednesday, December 17, 2008
News BMF's third-in-command sentenced
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:44 PM
Fleming "Ill" Daniels, a close associate of Black Mafia Family co-leader Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory, was sentenced in federal court today to 20 years in prison.
Daniels, one of 150 BMF associates indicted across the country, was convicted in June of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He was one of the few defendants to go to trial; most of the rest pleaded guilty.
During the sentencing, U.S. District Court Judge Orinda Evans said that based on the evidence she heard, Meech and Daniels were close.
"They had connections in the music world and also the drug world," she said. "He [Daniels] had a position of power and authority. He was Meech's right-hand man."
"Big Meech" Flenory, along with his brother Terry "Southwest T," were sentenced in September to 30 years for running one of the country's most prodigious cocaine empires. They're estimated to have earned at least $270 million in cocaine sales.
Meech, who headed BMF's Atlanta hub, also founded a record label and was tied to some of the South's most celebrated rappers.
Daniels has been described as Meech's third-in-command. He was a regular presence in Atlanta's high-end nightclubs, where BMF members were kno
Daniels also faces a murder charge out of Fulton County. He was indicted earlier this year for the 2004 killing of Rashannibal "Prince" Drummond, who was gunned down in the parking lot of the now-defunct Velvet Room; that case has yet to be resolved.
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