The white leader of an Asian organized crime group based in Boston’s Chinatown was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday on drug trafficking and money laundering charges, Boston U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz announced.

John Willis was a leader in the Ping On gang, a Chinese criminal organization whose reach spanned from Boston’s Chinatown to Florida, New York, Rhode Island and South Carolina, Ortiz said. Ping On members trafficked thousands of oxycodone pills worth approximately $4 million.

[They were also heavily involved in prostitution, ecstasy trafficking, etc.]

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Willis was a white kid who grew up in a working class Boston neighborhood. He was adopted by a Chinese family involved in organized crime, learned Chinese and Chinese culture, and became head of this gang.

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