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*In Washington today, former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. entered a guilty plea in court to criminal charges that he engaged in an alleged scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. Earlier, Jackson Jr. and his wife Sandra had agreed to plead guilty in deals with prosecutors. Specifically, Jackson’s guilty plea was [...]
*Dressed in a conservative dark jacket, white button-up shirt and a long rose skirt , singer Lauryn Hill pleaded guilty Friday to not paying federal taxes on more than $1.5 million earned over three years. She faces a maximum one-year sentence on each of the three counts, reports the Associated Press. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] [...]
*Actress Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, who played a drug dealer and assassin on HBO’s “The Wire,” pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to distribute heroin, the Associated Press reported. Pearson, 31, entered the plea a day before her trial was set to begin. Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill accepted the plea, suspending a seven-year sentence with credit for time [...]
*Ja Rule has just pleaded guilty to tax evasion in a federal courtroom in Newark, New Jersey. The platinum-selling rapper admitted Tuesday that he failed to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income earned between 2004 and 2006, reports the AP. As part of a plea agreement, the government has dismissed two counts [...]
*R&B crooner D’Angelo has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with a prostitution case in New York City. The 37-year-old, born Michael Archer, was arrested in March 2010 after he tried to pay $40 for sex with an undercover officer who was posing as a prostitute. The Grammy Award-winning R&B singer entered his plea [...]
*Bruno Mars plead guilty to cocaine possession today, three days after winning his first Grammy award, in a deal that avoids prison and could erase his felony conviction next year. “Guilty, your honor,” the 25-year-old singer-songwriter said softly, standing in court in a dark suit with his hands at his sides. Clark County District Judge [...]
*Bruno Mars told a Las Vegas judge Friday that he’ll plead guilty in state court on Valentine’s Day to a felony cocaine charge that would be wiped from his record if he stays out of trouble for a year, reports Billboard Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joseph Sciscento set a Feb. 14 date for [...]
*Rapper Ja Rule has pleaded guilty in New York to attempted criminal possession of a weapon, the AP reports. The gun-possession case stems from a July 2007 stop of his luxury sports car. The rapper said “this isn’t a good day” and declined to discuss the case as he left a Manhattan court. Police say [...]
*Monica Conyers, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers and a former Detroit city councilwoman, was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for bribery. During the contentious court hearing, Conyers tried to get her guilty plea to conspiracy reversed, suggesting she was the victim of “badgering” last year when she admitted taking [...]
*After four false starts, Lil Wayne was finally taken away in handcuffs to begin his year-long jail term for attempted criminal possession of a weapon. The rapper was sentenced in Manhattan Monday, where he’ll serve his sentence in city jails, not a state prison. He could be released in about eight months with good behavior. [...]
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