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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A federal jury hearing opening statements in the trial of a Long Island woman accused of luring four young men to their slaughter by more than a dozen members of the MS-13 street gang. The racketeering trial of Leniz Escobar began Monday on Long Island. Prosecutors say she helped orchestrate the 2017 massacre as a teenage associate of the gang. Escobar has pleaded not guilty to racketeering charges in the four deaths that prosecutors described as “a horrific frenzy of violence” involving machetes, knives and tree limbs.
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