Supreme Team boss on trial for murder

By Craig Giammona

McGriff faces the death penalty in the case. He is accused of ordering the murders of Troy Singleton and Eric Smith in 2001 in addition to running a drug-dealing enterprise, with a stash house in Maryland, that allegedly distributed cocaine, heroin and crack, prosecutors said.

McGriff is the former boss of the Supreme Team, a notoriously vicious and profitable drug gang that ran the streets of southeast Queens during the 1980s.