Annotations for Subject-headings: Racketeering

In the San Antonio federal court, former Texas Congressman Albert Bustamante has been found guilty on two counts of racketeering and using his office to obtain an illegal gratuity. Bustamante, who represented a South Texas district for seven years was acquitted on eight other counts. Migrant worker advocates say farm workers in the Midwest are being left out of the aid effort in that flood-devastated region.

They are viewed as nomads. They're viewed as people who are here to today and gone tomorrow, so it's much easier to focus FEMA funds, for example, on the severe loss that a farmer with 600 acres and millions of dollars worth of crops standing underwater. You can actually see the damage.

Bobbi Ryder is the director of the National Migrant Resource Center in Austin, Texas. The floods have left hundreds of farm workers without work in several Midwestern states. You're listening to Latino USA.

A wave of drive-by shootings has tapered off. In Los Angeles. Authorities say street gangs have been ordered to stop the shootings by members of the so-called Mexican Mafia Prison Gang. Reports say the Mexican Mafia has held several secret meetings with Latino gang members, telling them to stop the violent drive-bys, which often cause death or injury to innocent bystanders. This is news from Latino USA.