Jeff Fort
American mobster
Jeff Fort (born February 20, 1947), also known as Abdul Malik Ka'bah, is an American gangster and former gang kingpin from Chicago, Illinois.
Fort co-founded the Black P. Stones gang and is the founder of its El Rukn faction. Fort is currently serving a 168-year prison sentence after being convicted of conspiracy and weapons charges in 1987 for plotting to commit attacks inside the U.S. in exchange for weapons and $2.5 million from Libya, ordering a murder in 1981 and a conviction for drug trafficking in 1983.
Early life
Fort was the second of ten children born to John Fort and Annie Bacon; d. 2010 in Aberdeen, Mississippi. He moved with his family to the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago's South Side in 1955. He dropped out of Hyde Park High School after the ninth grade.
Fort spent time at Cook County temporary juvenile detention center and at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles, where he met Eugene "Bull" Hairston.
The Blackstone Rangers
1959–66
Around 1959, Fort and Hairston formed the Blackstone Rangers gang at St.
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