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*Looks like Lauryn Hill will avoid jail time for her tax drama. The singer, who is scheduled for sentencing today on federal tax evasion charges, has paid off the balance of more than $900,000 she owed in back taxes and penalties, her attorney said on Sunday. Hill is scheduled for sentencing in U.S. District Court [...]
*Lauryn Hill is facing sentencing today in New Jersey on federal tax charges. The Grammy winning singer pleaded guilty last year to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. A judge two weeks ago said Hill had paid only about $50,000 of more than $500,000 she owes. Hill said she [...]
*Historically, there have been cases where white men and women have committed crimes and have used black men and women as their scapegoat out of harm’s way. But only now, are those that commit these awful crimes being brought to justice. Bearing false witness is a horrible injustice that victimizes the black community twofold by [...]
*Dr. Conrad Murray will face Michael Jackson’s family this morning when he returns to court today for sentencing in the death of the superstar from an overdose of an operating-room anesthetic he was receiving to battle insomnia. Prosecutors want a judge to sentence the 58-year-old Murray to the maximum four-year prison term. Defense attorneys counter [...]
*Rapper Beanie Sigel is facing up to three years in prison after he admitted in federal court Tuesday that he didn’t file or pay taxes between 2003 and 2005, reports MTV. U.S. prosecutors estimate that the rapper owes approximately $350,000 on $1 million of unreported income. He subsequently pleaded guilty to three counts of failure [...]
*Family members, fans and supporters have pleaded for leniency for Grammy-winning reggae singer Buju Banton, who likely will be sentenced to prison Thursday for conspiring to set up a cocaine deal. According to the AP, dozens of letters to U.S. District Judge James S. Moody are included in the court file for the 37-year-old recording [...]
*Buju Banton’s legal camp has filed papers seeking a shorter prison sentence after his February conviction of conspiring to set up a cocaine deal in Florida in 2009. The Grammy winner faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison at his sentencing hearing June 23 in Tampa federal court. In court documents filed Thursday, [...]
*Former NFL great Lawrence Taylor was sentenced to six years’ probation today in a Montebello sex case, with the teen girl he’s accused of paying for sex making a surprise appearance in the courtroom and holding a press conference afterward to denounce the sentence. The 52-year-old ex-linebacker pleaded guilty in January to sexual misconduct and [...]
*Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones has been sentenced to probation and 200 hours of community service under a plea deal for his role in a 2007 strip club melee in Las Vegas, reports the AP Clark County courts spokeswoman Mary Ann Price said Jones received a suspended sentence on Thursday and was also ordered [...]
*Ja Rule will have to wait a while longer before learning when he’ll begin serving a two-year prison term for a gun case. Prosecutors said Wednesday that changes are needed in a presentencing report for the platinum-selling rapper and actor. He’s now due back March 9 to cement a sentencing date, reports the AP. Ja [...]
*Ja Rule is due in a New York courtroom today to find out when he’ll begin serving his two-year prison sentence for a 2007 gun case. The 34-year-old rapper/actor pleaded guilty in December to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. His plea deal calls for a two-year prison term. Today, he’ll learn when he must [...]
*Sam Jones III, best known for playing Pete Ross on the first three seasons of the television series “Smallville,” is facing up to 20 years in jail after pleading guilty in Los Angeles federal court to conspiracy to sell more than 10,000 oxycodone pills, reports E! Online. The 27-year-old actor was busted at his Canoga [...]
*Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to up to five years in prison today for violating the terms of his probation stemming from his conviction for lying under oath about an affair with his chief of staff. Kilpatrick, 39, begged for compassion from Judge David Groner during the hearing, but Groner said “that ship [...]
*Suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas was spared a jail sentence Friday when a judge instead sentenced him to probation for bringing guns into the Verizon Center. D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert B. Morin issued the sentence after a 100-minute hearing before a packed courtroom, reports the Washington Post. Morin sentenced Arenas to 18 months [...]
*Lil Wayne’s jail term in a gun case has been delayed yet again – this time due to a fire in the New York courthouse where he was due to be sentenced. Today’s midmorning blaze shut down a Lower Manhattan court for the day, postponing the rapper’s court date among other proceedings, courts spokesman David [...]
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