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Tekashi rapper 6ix9ine had to be transferred Wednesday night into a federal prison in Brooklyn, threatened with death, the newspaper reported.
The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was fired from the Sunset Park metropolitan detention center, where he was placed after his arrest on Sunday when he feared being targeted by gangbangers who wanted the "violate".
Hernandez's lawyer, Lance Lazzaro, said he did not know where his client had been taken, except that he had been removed from the Prisons Bureau detention center – entirely – on Wednesday night.
One of the possibilities is that Hernandez, 22, is in custody with ICE, whose internal security investigations unit has dismantled it, as well as the Office of Alcohol, Tobacco, firearms and explosives.
HSI did not immediately return a request for comment. BOP also did not return a request for comment, but their website indicates that rapper "Oof" was "released" on November 21st.
The rainbow-haired rapper was arrested along with five other people, including his former director Kifano "Shotti" Jordan, and charged with racketeering and illegal guns. Prosecutors said the men had sold drugs and shot people as members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
But Hernandez also publicly disputed with his alleged gang mates at the time of his arrest, which caused the dismissal of Jordan and other members of his group of rappers.
The federal government told a judge on Monday that it had heard unidentified members of the alleged conspiracy over court-ordered wiretaps, claiming that they wanted to "super rape" Hernandez for firing them.
In gangs, "raping" someone means hurting him, including shooting, prosecutors said.
It is unusual to be fired from federal prison – even when prisoners are threatened. Among the former prisoners who were removed from the Prison Office are Reza Zarrab, who was brutally "released" from the Manhattan federal prison and placed under the custody of the FBI after agreeing to cooperate with the federal government in a high profile money laundering case.
Lazzaro did not respond to a request for comment on whether Hernandez had reached any agreement to sing in front of the federal government about the alleged activity of a gang of his pals.
Before being released from prison, the Brooklyn resident had been the subject of a "separation order" in prison, said his lawyer.
Such orders are put in place to keep some prisoners apart – whether for security reasons or to fear conspiring in jail, said Larry Levine, director and founder of Wall Street Prison Consultants.
But they are not infallible.
"I received a separation order, we went to church services and we escaped," he said of his stay in a federal prison in Los Angeles.
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