Jury deciding racketeering case against convicted killer

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jurors began deliberations Friday in the federal racketeering case against a New Orleans crime figure already serving a life sentence on a state murder charge.

After the brother of a witness in a case against Hankton was shot and killed in 2011, Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a news conference with law enforcement officials in front of the daiquiri shop where the shooting occurred.

John Matthews, once the owner of the daiquiri shop where his brother was killed, told the jury in the federal case that he was hit more than 17 times when two men burst into his home, according to an account of his testimony in The New Orleans Advocate (http://bit.ly/28SgyHp).