Source: AP
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(LOS ANGELES, CA) — A former nightclub owner has been sent back to jail to await trial on racketeering charges in connection with four 1981 killings that put a spotlight on drugs and pornography in Hollywood.
U.S. District Judge Carlos R. Moreno ordered 71-year-old Eddie Nash back to jail Friday for violating conditions of his November release on $1.5 million bond.
Nash, whose real name is Adel Nasrallah, is accused of running a 25-year racketeering enterprise that used murder and mayhem to protect heroin and cocaine dealers.
He could face life in prison if convicted.
Nash, who has emphysema and coronary artery disease, had been confined to his home and ordered to wear an electric monitoring device.
A federal prosecutor said Nash violated rules barring him from making unmonitored telephone calls or meeting with people not approved by prosecutors.
Nash is accused of ordering the killing of two men and two women on Wonderland Avenue in Laurel Canyon in 1981. The victims were clubbed to death in what prosecutors contended was retaliation for the theft of more than $1 million worth of drugs and jewels from Nash’s home.
The theft was fictionalized in the movie “Boogie Nights.”
Nash’s first trial ended in a jury deadlock and he was acquitted in the second trial in 1991. The racketeering charges include allegations that he bribed the lone juror who voted for acquittal in the first trial.
