SF crime boss 'Shrimp Boy' Chow gets life, insists he's innocent

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and murder as the leader of a venerable Chinatown community organization, said Thursday he was an innocent victim of dishonest prosecutors, a biased judge and incompetent defense attorneys.

“You got the wrong man,” Chow, 56, said in a discourse in San Francisco federal court that lasted more than an hour before a judge pronounced his sentence. “I’m not apologizing (for) a crime I had nothing to do with.”

Chow, the lead prosecutor responded, was only showing his tendency to blame others for his wrongdoing. And U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said the evidence presented during an eight-week trial amply proved Chow’s guilt.

A federal court jury convicted Chow in January of conspiring to operate his organization, the Ghee Kung Tong, as a racketeering enterprise and of ordering the murder of its previous leader, Allen Leung, in 2006.

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[C Moon]

1. He does not sound like a good person.

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2. "innocent victim of dishonest prosecutors, a biased judge and incompetent defense attorneys."

Does this have a familiar sound to anyone else?

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3. Shrimp boy caught in his natural habitat

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4. The NYT Magazine profile of Shrimp Boy was fascinating

You got the idea that he was forced back into this role because the community needed the gangs to have a leader. He might just continue to run them from inside.

He was not an unsympathetic character.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/shrimp-boys-day-in-court.html?_r=0