Big U is back at the center of the federal racketeering case against Eugene “Big U” Henley after prosecutors filed a superseding indictment on Wednesday. The new filing adds seven additional felonies and says Henley tried to have a federal witness killed or seriously injured before trial.
Henley, 59, has been in federal custody since March 2025 and already faced accusations of murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion and fraud. If convicted on the racketeering conspiracy count, he could face up to life in prison; the new witness-tampering charges carry the same maximum.
June allegations inside custody
In June, the indictment says, Henley asked about the layout of a housing unit where he believed the witness was located. He allegedly offered to pay two inmates to kill or harm that person, a move prosecutors say was aimed at stopping testimony at trial against him and his associates.
That allegation sharpens the case against a defendant who has publicly cast himself as someone trying to help. In a video made before he turned himself in last year, Henley said, “I ain’t did nothing.” He also said, “I ain’t been nothing but a help to our community,” adding, “This the price of being Black and trying to help somebody, trying to help your community and do what you can.”
Los Angeles racketeering charges
The new charges sit on top of a broader case that federal authorities have tied to the Big U Enterprise, which they have likened to a mafia-like organization. Prosecutors say it relied on Henley’s stature and long-standing association with the Rollin’ 60s and other street gangs to intimidate businesses and individuals in Los Angeles.
That is the contradiction now sitting in the open: Henley says he was helping his community, while prosecutors accuse him of running a coercive enterprise and trying to silence a witness. The indictment also says he had already been accused of murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion and fraud, which gives the witness allegation added weight inside an already sprawling racketeering case. For readers tracking the case, the practical update is simple: the government has expanded the exposure, and the clock is now running toward February 2027.
Future, Nipsey Hussle, and the file
The filing also revisits earlier allegations that prosecutors say show the reach of the case. In 2014, Henley and his associates allegedly assaulted and chased Future through Los Angeles International Airport to collect a debt and for failing to show respect; The Times identified the artist as Nayvadius DeMun Cash. Federal prosecutors also said Henley and Nipsey Hussle had a dispute in 2011 after Henley requested music equipment in Hussle’s possession.
According to the indictment, Hussle released “U Don’t Got a Clue,” which Henley allegedly took as a shot at him. After that, Henley allegedly went to discipline Hussle over the song, but Hussle’s brother refused to allow it. Hussle was killed in 2019 by a fellow member of the Rollin’ 60s, a fact that now hangs over the case as prosecutors continue to map old disputes into the racketeering narrative.
Henley and six other defendants are scheduled to go to trial in February 2027, and the witness issue is the sharpest new pressure point in the file. Who the federal witness was and what testimony that person was expected to give are not identified.
