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Mystikal is reportedly a free man. According to TMZ, the 48-year-old rapper—legal name Michael Lawrence Tyler—was recently released from a Louisiana prison after posting a $3 million bond. The money is said to have come from an advance for a new record deal, as well as fundraisers conducted by his friends and family. News of Mystikal’s potential release broke last […]
More than 1,600 inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn have been without proper power and heat for the last week, the New York Times reports. A spokeswoman for Herman Quay, the jail’s warden, told the Times that the building had gone through a power outage last Saturday, but denied that heat and hot water […]
On Wednesday (Jan. 30) three associates of 6ix9ine were indicted on criminal charges related to the controversial 22-year-old rapper. One of the suspects, Anthony Ellison, was charged with the kidnapping of 6ix9ine. The Southern District of New York’s Department of Justice has released a statement confirming the three associates have been charged with racketeering and […]
DMX has been freed, according to TMZ. The Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood rapper began his sentence in January 2018 after “failing to comply with conditions of his bail” in connection with a tax evasion guilty plea. “I’m saddened and disappointed,” his attorney Murray Richman told TMZ at the time. “We’ll have to […]
A former Chicago police officer was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald—a 17-year-old black boy who was fatally shot 16 times. The sentence includes time served. Judge Vincent Gaughan announced the ruling Friday, about three months after Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder and 16 […]
Meek Mill, Michael Rubin, JAY-Z, and more are joining forces to launch a new criminal justice reform organization. Details will be unveiled next Wednesday (Jan. 23) during a press conference, including who will be the CEO of the organization. Meek, Rubin, and Hov are joined by Robert Kraft, Daniel Loeb, Michael E. Novogratz, Robert F. Smith, and Clara Wu Tsai. […]
Jersey Shore‘s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino pleaded guilty to a tax fraud case in January 2018, and now he’s revealed that he’s ready to ready to serve his sentence. As TMZ reports, Sorrentino’s attorney Kristen Santillo confirmed that he’s turning himself in on Tuesday to start his eight-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Insituation in Otisville, New York. […]
Although 6ix9ine‘s social media antics have made him a lot of enemies, his humor and infectious music also generated the rapper an endearing fan base. As a result, a petition was started on change.org in hopes to sway the judge to grant the rapper bail in his racketeering case. As of this publication it stands at 48,850 […]
Kifano “Shotti” Jordan, 6ix9ine‘s former manager, is parting ways with his attorney. In court documents obtained by Complex, attorney Scott E. Leemon requested to be relieved of counsel for Shotti. Leemon, in a letter to Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, said that he only made his initial Nov. 26 court appearance with his now-former client after Shotti […]
Kansas officials announced on Tuesday that Richard Anthony Jones would be given a $1.1 million settlement after a new mistaken-conviction law helped resolve a lawsuit he brought on. Jones initiated the litigation after he was locked up 17 years for a crime that was committed by a lookalike. In tandem with the settlement, Kansas’s attorney […]
