Jeff Fort (born February 20, 1947),[5][12] also known as Abdul Malik Ka'bah, is an American mobster and former gang kingpin from Chicago, Illinois.
[4] Fort spent time at Cook County temporary juvenile detention center and at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles, where he met Eugene "Bull" Hairston.
[citation needed] Around 1959, Fort and Hairston formed the Blackstone Rangers gang at St. Charles Juvenile Detention Center.
[8][17] During the early 1960s, Fort earned the nickname "Angel" for his ability to solve disputes and form alliances between the Rangers and other gangs.
Fort's organization applied for and received a US$1 million federal grant from the now-defunct Office of Economic Opportunity to fund a program to teach job skills to gang members.
[17][18] Unlike many gangs, the Blackstone Rangers were not considered outsiders but had been largely accepted by Chicago society, with Jeff Fort even receiving an invitation from President Richard Nixon, following the 1968 election, to attend the 1969 inaugural ball.
The Stones also gained control of vice in the South Side, demanding protection payments from prostitution operations and drug dealers.
[citation needed] After his release from prison in 1976, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and joined the Moorish Science Temple.
[23][24] In 1987, Fort was tried and convicted for conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism on behalf of a foreign government.
[9][28] Fort's daughter, Ameena Matthews, became an anti-violence activist (or "violence interrupter") in Chicago with the Al Hafeez Initiative.