Opinion ID: 775760
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: HHM Associates, Inc.

Text: 85 McCall acted as the coalition coordinator for HHM Associates, Inc., in Brooklyn, and Eric Mulder occupied the same position in Queens. In addition, HHM contracted with a firm associated with Johnson's son and Vernon Smith for security guards. 86 Jesse Callender, a BFB leader, recruited Mulder to work for BFB after Mulder went into hiding to avoid the consequences of an incident in which he shot an organizer of his coalition in the face. In 1995, Mulder attended a series of meetings with BFB and other coalitions to seek approval to act as HHM's coalition coordinator in Queens. First, he met with McCall and Callender and told them he wanted to take responsibility for . . . Brooklyn Fight Back's interests for HHM in Queens. He then met with Carnes and Blacko, who was associated with a rival coalition controlled by Callie Harris. Carnes told Mulder that he would check with other members of BFB, and Blacko did not object to Mulder's request. At a third meeting, which Johnson, McCall, Smith, Callie Harris, Blacko, and Harvey Lyons, one of the owners of HHM, attended, McCall told Lyons that Mulder would be the new coalition coordinator in Queens. 87 A few weeks later, Mulder went to HHM's office. McCall, Callender, and Lyons were also present, and the next week, Lyons told Mulder to bring some workers with him to the job site. Mulder selected one or two workers for each of HHM's Queens work sites. Ordinarily, Mulder required those workers to pay him dues of approximately $ 100 per week. He also received a $ 1000 weekly salary from HHM. In order to protect the job site from rival coalitions, Mulder instructed one of his workers to bring a gun to the job site. 88 Harris' coalition caused problems for Mulder during his entire tenure in Queens. Mulder repeatedly told McCall, who he considered to be his supervisor, that Harris' men kept coming around and aggravating the job site, stopping the job. Harris' men also had caused problems for BFB in Brooklyn, and, on one occasion, Johnson left instructions for Carnes to go to an HHM construction site in Flatbush and take care of the problem. Mulder also reported his problems to Johnson. On May 16, 1996, Mulder told Johnson that Harris' coalition was coming around, seeking leverage, and Johnson directed Mulder to straighten out the rival coalition. A week later, Mulder reported to Johnson that these motherfuckers from fucking Cali [sic] . . . they come over there and stopped the job site today. Mulder added, I'm out there with my fucking machine gun early in the morning. And if I come kill a motherfucker I'm solving somebody else's problem. Shortly after this exchange, Johnson got off the phone. Johnson called Mulder back a week later and said, street shit is street shit. I don't want to get involved with . . . And when you talk to me on the phone some kind of way, I don't like it. In the interim between the two calls, Smith had instructed Mulder not to discuss violence on the phone because some coalition phones had been tapped. Mulder explained that the second phone call between him and Johnson had been staged to create the impression Johnson was not involved with violence. 89 On September 17, 1997, Mulder went to an HHM work site in Queens Village with BFB member David Pough and another man. There, Mulder learned that members of Harris' coalition including Erick Riddick, also known as Chaos, Blacko, and Biggie had been at the site and planned to return. When Riddick and Blacko returned with a crowd of people, they told Harvey Lyons that he should not deal with Mulder and began taking tools from the HHM workers. They also surrounded Mulder, and Blacko told Riddick to grab Mulder. Riddick put Mulder in a headlock, began punching him, and took some of his jewelry. Shots then rang out, and the crowd dispersed. Mulder saw Pough and Jamal Richardson, a BFB member who worked at the site, holding Riddick at gunpoint. Mulder took the gun, pointed it at Riddick, and shot him until he was unrecognizable. Mulder admitted that as he shot Riddick, he thought about making it possible [for him] not to be able to come back. 90 After the shooting, Mulder went back into hiding. While in hiding, he spoke to Callender who told him there was a fee for the murder and Mulder should contact Johnson.