{"id":216521,"date":"2026-05-01T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216521\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:34:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-leader-of-bedstuy-bully-gang-sentenced-to-60-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216521\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Leader Of Bedstuy Bully Gang Sentenced To 60 Years In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A federal judge sentenced the leader of a violent Bed\u2011Stuy\u2013based gang to 60 years in prison on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Moeleek Harrell, also known as \u201cMoe Money,\u201d was one of 53 defendants convicted of crimes perpetrated by the Bully Gang in 2024. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Court documents state that the group was involved in a multi\u2011state drug and money laundering scheme, including an attempt to smuggle drugs into Rikers Island.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say Harrell founded the gang and directed and oversaw many of its offenses. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The charges against him included racketeering, two murder conspiracies, two assaults, two instances of using a gun during a crime of violence, two drug\u2011trafficking conspiracies and two money\u2011laundering conspiracies.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">United States Attorney Nocella I. Shihata said his sentencing should send a message to those involved in criminal gangs. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cMoeleek Harrell learned today that there is a heavy price to pay for leading a gang responsible for extensive criminal conduct, and his sentence should serve as a warning to those underlings who foolishly obeyed the defendant\u2019s orders. They too will learn that following Harrell\u2019s footsteps will lead to a path straight to federal prison for a very long time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge sentenced the leader of a violent Bed\u2011Stuy\u2013based gang to 60 years in prison on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-216521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}