Aryan Brotherhood Juniors? Irish Mafia FAIM A.B. | American Dope

Barry Mills, Ronnie Yandell, Coby PhillipsThe year is 1999, and Aryan Brotherhood leader Barry “the Baron” Mills holds an unfulfilled murder contract from imprisoned Gambino Mafia Boss John Gotti. Its 3 years old, dating from Gotti's assault by a black inmate at Marion prison back in 96, and an AB soldier from Northern California named Ronnie Yandell was finally in position to fulfill Gotti’s contract on Gotti’s attacker…. But when Mills realized Yandell was soon to be paroled he stopped the hit. The Baron figured Yandell potential usefulness on the streets of the Bay area exceeded the need to bring John Gotti’s contract to fruition. The year is 2018 and legendary Contra Costa County meth cook Donnie Phillips is facing yet another set of Federal charges in his long career. This time though, he has a unique defense: “I was forced to sell large amounts of crystal methamphetamine to help my son fight his death penalty case.” Phillips tells the court through his lawyers. How are these interesting, but seemingly disconnected criminal events, in fact, connected? The answer is called FAIM, the Family Affiliated Irish Mafia, and its leader the infamous white East Bay Gangster Coby Phillips- the son of… Donnie Phillips. And why was Coby Phillips facing the death penalty, supposedly causing his dad to get back into the meth cooking game to raise money for his son’s defense? That goes back to Ronnie “Renegade” Yandell, the AB who was allegedly going to handle John Gotti’s murder contract. In May of 2001, about 2 years after his release from Federal prison, Yandell was arrested for killing 2 men in El Sobrante, a city in Contra Costa county right next to the city of Rodeo- Coby Phillips’ home base. At this point, as the government narrative goes, Coby was ruling a multi-million dollar meth empire- possibly powered by his own father’s cooking skills - remember this was still the era where most meth was being cooked in America and ephedrine was still obtainable. Coby Phillips and his crew were spending their profits on trips to Benihana, Cadillac Escalades and exotic pets, including a pair of alligators Phillips illegally shipped from Florida. Ironic how people under the Aryan Brotherhood umbrella have the same spending habits as rappers.