A Hankton cousin, Thomas "Squirt" Hankton, also is accused in that shooting, as is Telly Hankton, who allegedly ordered the hit from jail. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, among others, has labeled Telly ...

Hankton, 36, already is serving a life sentence for a murder conviction in state court. He and four other defendants now face federal charges that are punishable by a death sentence, although the ...

Federal prosecutors failed to turn over evidence of coercion among witnesses in the ongoing Telly Hankton racketeering trial and have knowingly allowed several of them to lie on the stand, ...

For years, “everyone was friends on Josephine,” Latoya Stewart testified Wednesday about the Central City street where drug dealing was common. Telly Hankton dealt in bulk cocaine, she said ...

Investigators allege that Telly Hankton's cousin, Thomas, paid the group's hitman $10,000 to murder John Matthews. Matthews had witnessed Telly murder a man in 2008.

Hankton is already serving a life sentence for 2008 murder of Darnell Stewart. Also sentenced Wednesday were Walter Porter, 40, cousin Andre Hankton, 38, and Kevin Jackson, 43.