Jeffery “Young Thug” Williams Yawns Through Trial

Is Fani’s RICO Moonshot Putting Him to Sleep?

Young Thug, the entertainer, is yawning through the first few days of testimony in his Racketeering and Corrupt Crimes Act prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia.

After months of attorneys haggling over the selection of jurors, Brady motions, and motions in limine, witnesses took the stand this week in the RICO prosecution of Grammy Award-winning rapper “Young Thug,” whose birth name is Jeffery Williams.

Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution seeks to determine whether “Young Thug” is running a lucrative business enterprise or is the boss of a criminal street gang known as YSL or “Young Slime Life.”

Brian Steel, one of Williams’ lawyers, in opening statements, pitched him to the jury as a Black man born into abject poverty in a family of ten siblings. Steel said that Williams rapped his way out of the violent Cleveland Avenue neighborhood central to the prosecution’s case; once fortune and fame reached Williams, he returned to help the hood.

Au contraire, Adriane Love, Chief Deputy District Attorney for Fulton County, suggests a different view. Love quote from Rudyard Kipling in conceding that Williams grew up in a heavily policed, crime-infested jungle of Cleveland Avenue. But she…