United States v. Alex, 791 F. Supp. 723 (N.D. Ill. 1992)

Judge Alesia's pretrial order on Gus Alex's motions in the case charging the 'Lenny Patrick Street Crew' with a pattern of racketeering, including eleven separate acts of extortion, intimidation or arson against eleven people.

Date: 1992-04-17
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: 791 F. Supp. 723 (N.D. Ill. 1992); No. 91 CR 727
Rights: Opinion of a United States court. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States. The text was read on CourtListener.

United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, April 17, 1992, Judge Alesia. The order rules on pretrial motions by the defendant Gus Alex.

The court denied his request for a witness list, explaining that the indictment charges the defendants with operating the “Lenny Patrick Street Crew” through a pattern of racketeering and alleges eleven separate acts of extortion, intimidation or arson against eleven individuals. It granted early return of trial subpoenas and denied most of his discovery requests.

The order describes the indictment’s charges, which were allegations at that stage. The trial and appeal are recorded in United States v. Rainone (7th Cir. 1994).

itemUnited States v. Rainone, 32 F.3d 1203 (7th Cir. 1994)The Seventh Circuit affirms the convictions of Gus Alex, Nicholas Gio and Mario Rainone in the Patrick Street Crew case, describing Alex as 'the higher-up in the Outfit' to whom Leonard Patrick reported and calling the Outfit 'the clearest possible example' of an organized-crime gang.