A new superseding indictment returned Wednesday adds seven felonies against Eugene “Big U” Henley, including allegations that he tried to have a federal witness killed or seriously injured. Henley, who already faced racketeering accusations, now confronts charges that prosecutors say grew out of efforts to silence someone in the case.
The filing matters now because it sharpens an already grave federal case and makes the stakes for Henley even higher. He had previously been accused of murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion and fraud, and he has been in federal custody since March 2025 after pleading not guilty. The new counts include solicitation to commit a crime of violence and witness tampering, both of which can carry severe penalties on top of the existing racketeering allegations.
Prosecutors say that in June Henley asked about the layout of a housing unit where he believed the victim was being held and offered to pay two inmates to kill or harm the person. They did not identify the federal witness by name. That gap leaves one of the most serious allegations in the case hanging on the same word that often defines federal trials: a witness whose testimony may never reach a jury if the government cannot protect them.
The broader indictment also reaches back to episodes prosecutors say show how Henley operated long before the current custody fight. It alleges that in 2014 he and his associates assaulted and then chased a Grammy-winning recording artist through Los Angeles International Airport over a debt and a perceived lack of respect. Federal prosecutors identified the artist only as N.D.C., while The Times identified him as Nayvadius DeMun Cash, the rapper known professionally as Future.
It also revives a dispute prosecutors say began in 2011, when Henley requested music equipment in Nipsey Hussle’s possession. The filing says Nipsey Hussle responded with a diss song called “U Don’t Got a Clue,” which Henley took as a shot at him. After the song was released, Henley allegedly went to discipline Nipsey Hussle, but Nipsey Hussle’s brother refused to let him. Nipsey Hussle was later killed in 2019 by a fellow member of the Rollin’ 60s.
Those allegations sit beside Henley’s public image, which he has cast as a community-minded figure who has done little wrong. Before turning himself in last year, he appeared in videos saying, “I ain’t did nothing,” and insisting, “I ain’t been nothing but a help to our community.” He also said, “This the price of being Black and trying to help somebody, trying to help your community and do what you can. You just guilty because somebody else don’t like you.” Prosecutors, meanwhile, have described his Big U Enterprise as a mafia-like organization that relied on his stature and long-standing ties to the Rollin’ 60s and other street gangs to intimidate businesses and people in L.A.
Henley and six other defendants are scheduled to go to trial in February 2027. The new indictment does not answer the most immediate question in the case: whether prosecutors can prove that the man who once said, “I ain’t did nothing,” tried to turn inmates into hit men while he waited in federal custody for trial.
