“Pat Brady, 53, of Lake Forest, was sentenced today by US District Judge Kimberly Mueller to life in prison for murder in aid of racketeering, US Attorney Phillip Talbert announced. According to court documents, between 2011 and 2016, Aryan Brotherhood (AB) members and associates engaged in racketeering activity, committing multiple acts involving murder, conspiracies to murder, and drug trafficking crimes. AB members oversaw a significant heroin and methamphetamine trafficking operation from their California prison cells using smuggled cellphones to direct drug trafficking activities, order murders, and oversee other criminal activities inside and outside of the prisons.”

“According to Brady’s plea agreement, on July 28, 2018, Brady murdered an inmate at High Desert Prison as part of an AB-related killing. Brady admitted that he committed the murder because the victim falsely claimed to be an AB member and had run up a significant drug debt at his previous prison – both violations of the AB’s expected codes of conduct. Brady willfully, deliberately, and with premeditation, murdered the victim in order to maintain his status within the gang,” says a Monday Justice Department press release on “Big Pat” getting more life in prison on top of the life in prison he was already serving for… something. Probably murder. The San Jose Mercury News doesn’t say what it was in their article about the sprawling RICO case against Brady and the other Aryan Bros.

Brady’s co-defendant in the murder, Jason Corbett, whose attorney in 2019 asked the judge in the sprawling RICO case against the Brotherhood to order the state prison system to stop forcing Corbett to wear Crocs, also pleaded guilty but hasn’t been sentenced to more life yet.

Other Aryan Brotherhood RICO co-defendants William Sylvester, Brant ‘Two Scoops‘ Daniel, and Danny Troxell were convicted at trial in April, they await sentencing to more life in prison.