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Ruben Ecleo Jr. in 1987 inherited the leadership of the
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242:18–30 years of imprisonment (graft)
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450:on April 25, 2021. He died at the
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203:Dead (in prison from 2011–2021)
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496:"Amulets didn't stop bullets"
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315:Ruben Sr.
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