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The changing political backdrop for the Ghost Mob case

By , Daily Memphian Published: June 09, 2025 4:00 AM CT

Once the superseding indictment charging Vincent Grant and two others in the gang-related 2019 murder of Tim Johnson was returned in early 2024, federal prosecutors in Memphis, led by then-U.S. Attorney Kevin Ritz, called a press conference to announce the charges.

They also said it was the first case brought under a 2023 Biden administration program called the Violent Crime Initiative.

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Ghost Mob Vincent Grant Marsha Blackburn Donald Trump Kevin Ritz Reagan Fondren U.S. Justice Department Subscriber Only

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.

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