[2] In the early hours of August 16, 1987, he claimed to have witnessed Don Taylor shoot and kill Terrance Joyner in the Bronx.
He and a fellow inmate, Leonard "OG Dead Eye" McKenzie, established the United Blood Nation, initially as a prison gang, while incarcerated at Rikers Island in 1993.
[5] On March 12, 1996, Portee led an attack, armed with a shiv fashioned from a Scrabble game piece, on members of the rival Latin Kings gang.
[7][8] He divided the gang into numerous subgroups, or "sets", such as the One Eight Trey, Sex Money Murder, and the Gangsta Killer Bloods.
[2] On August 27, 2002, Portee was convicted of ten counts of criminal activity, including racketeering, murder, conspiracy, credit card fraud, and drug trafficking.