The case offers yet another illustration of how the Mexican Mafia controls and extracts money from inmates held at the nation's largest jail complex.
Authorities this week charged 13 people with collecting money from drug sales and extorted commissary goods inside the Los Angeles County jails on behalf of Michael 'Mosca' Torres, a Mexican Mafia member who controlled the jail rackets until his death in July.
This documentation, the report says, allows the Mexican Mafia to 'track down persons in bad standing, persons that owe money, to coordinate the movement of drugs and communications, to account for taxation revenue such as the kitty and other enterprise business.' Martinez and Brooks were recorded discussing an inmate who was holding himself out as a Mexican Mafia member, according to a police report.
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