Lil Durk’s legal team says their client remains “innocent, no matter how many indictments they want to throw at him” following word of a new racketeering charge in connection with his murder-for-hire case.
"This indictment is lipstick on a pig,” lawyers for the Deep Thoughts artist said in a statement shared with Complex on Thursday evening (June 4). “For nearly two years now, federal prosecutors have desperately tried to fend off challenges to a very weak case. Now, just two months before trial—a trial that Durk Banks has demanded at every turn—they pull this pathetic pivot, recycling old accusations into a scrambling prosecutor's back-up plan: allege racketeering and as many unrelated false claims as possible.”
Durk’s lawyers continued: “This is not a sign of strength. It's an acknowledgment of weakness. The fact remains: Durk Banks is innocent, no matter how many indictments they want to throw at him.”
The statement—attributed to Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg, Brian Steel, and Christy O'Connor—has also been shared to Durk’s Instagram.
In racketeering-arguing court documents filed on Wednesday (June 3) and viewed by Complex, it’s alleged that Durk and other defendants “were members and associates of a criminal organization engaged in, among other things, acts and threats involving murder and attempted murder, robbery, and trafficking in controlled substances.” Ultimately, two counts were added against Durk and other defendants, including murder in aid of racketeering.
Durk was first arrested in October 2024. Later that year, he pleaded not guilty to the charges against him at the time. As of this writing, prosecutors say they are “prepared to proceed to trial” in August.
