called homies unidos. it recruits reformed gang members to become mentors all in an attempt to stop at-risk teens and young adults from joining gangs. programs like this one have been amazingly effective in cities across the country in reducing violence. in october of 2008, the federal government indicted 24 men in l.a. on racketeering charges. one of them was alex sanchez, the head of homies unidos. sanchez was the only person tied to homies unidos in the case. after a lengthy political battle he was released on bail early last year, still never convicted of any crime. there s the fact that mr. sanchez and homies unidos, as the name might suggest, work with predominantly latino gangs, and the gangsters portrayed in the ad are black. and alex sanchez, to top it off, said that janice hahn never gave homies unidos a dime.