A leader of the Nazi Low Riders, a white supremacist street and prison gang, has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to federal racketeering charges.

Ty Fowles, once the top member of the gang at the state prison in Wasco, California, according to authorities, pleaded guilty to two racketeering counts. 
 
Fowles, 38, admitted being involved in a 1999 attack in prison that injured three African-American inmates.  He also admitted authorizing a “hit” the following year on a white inmate who had reportedly dated a woman whose child was fathered by a Black man.

Fowles and 11 other members or associates of the Nazi Low Riders were indicted by a Los Angeles federal grand jury in February 2002 for violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) through extortion, conspiring to distribute drugs in prison, witness tampering, robbery, attempted murder and murder in various California state penitentiaries.  So far, nine of the defendants have pleaded guilty.

Fowles is scheduled to be sentenced on January 9, 2006.  He may face up to life in prison.