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Casanova has plead guilty in his ongoing federal racketeering case.

The Daily News reports Casanova, who had “leadership role” in the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang, copped to racketeering and narcotics charges on Wednesday (May 11) at a U.S. District Court in White Plains, New York. He is the 13th defendant in the Gorilla Stone case to plead guilty.

The 35-year-old Brooklyn rapper, born Caswell Senior, admitted to the July 2020 shooting in Miami following a gambling dispute, a 2018 robbery in Manhattan, where a member of his entourage choked a woman unconscious after taking a photo of him, and conspiring to move over 100 kilograms of marijuana. His previous charges of attempted murder and assault with a dangerous weapon were dismissed.

“Mr. Senior accepted responsibility for his conduct which was possession with intent to sell marijuana and the robbery of a young lady in a diner who was filming him with her phone,” Casanova’s lawyer James Kousouros wrote to Pitchfork. “We hope that our presentation to the court in advance of sentencing will illuminate the facts and circumstances surrounding this case and present Mr. Senior for the person that he really is.”

“Like twelve of his co-defendants, Caswell Senior, an accomplished recording artist and performer, now stands convicted of playing a leadership role in Gorilla Stone, a particularly violent Bloods gang that operates throughout New York and across the country,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. “In addition to his supervisory role, Senior was an active, hands-on participant in the gang’s senseless violence, including a shooting in Miami and contributing to a robbery at a Manhattan diner.”

In December, Casanova surrendered to NYPD after he and 17 other members of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang were indicted in a racketeering and drug conspiracy case.

Casanova will be sentenced on December 6 and is facing a maximum of 60 years in federal prison, with a mandatory minimum term of five years.