A federal judge in California fines the Mongols motorcycle club $500,000 in a racketeering case but still won't let the government strip the club of its trademarked logo.
FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2008, file photo, a the Mongols motorcycle club's logo is displayed at a news conference in Los Angeles. A federal judge on Friday, May 17, 2019, fined the Mongols motorcycle club $500,000 in a racketeering and conspiracy case but refused the latest effort in a decade-long attempt by the government to take away the club's control over its logo — a Genghis Khan-style rider in sunglasses astride a chopper-style bike.
Prosecutors had successfully argued before a jury that the logo was core to the identity of the Los Angeles area-based gang responsible for drug dealing, beatings and murder. They argued that bikers wore the badges like armor to intimidate. A jury that in 2018 convicted the club as a whole of racketeering and conspiracy agreed in January that the club’s trademarks should be forfeited to the government.
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