Interesting Bedfellows

Mere days after a suburban fan of his was murdered, rapper Lil Durk is arrested in a "murder for hire" plot:

• Chicago rap superstar Lil Durk was arrested in Florida on murder-for-hire charges as he was attempting to take a private jet to Italy.

  U.S. marshals arrested Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, on Thursday, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. He was held at the main jail and has been charged with murder-for-hire, records show.

  Durk allegedly hired hitmen from Chicago to travel to Los Angeles in 2022 to “track, stalk and attempt to murder” a rival rapper named Quando Rondo with whom Durk was in a public feud at the time, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.

  At a gas station in Los Angeles, the hitmen allegedly fired at least 18 rounds and killed a family member of the rival rapper.

For those of you who don't know, Lil Durk is also active in local politics. In fact, after the CTU and the SEIU, Durk was the single biggest contributor to Conehead's campaign.

As an alleged murder-for-hire conspirator, he likes his mayoral contacts:

And just as a hedge against being prosecuted in Cook County, here he is with Crimesha:

 All three of these persons took political donations.