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President Biden Historically Names 40 Black Women As Federal Judges
President Joe Biden has officially named 40 Black women to be confirmed as federal judges, setting a historical landmark and providing a potential bulwark against attempts by President-elect Donald Trump to eliminate federal agencies.
Third Man In Jam Master Jay Killing Wants Separate Trial
The attorney for Jay Bryant, the third man recently charged in the 2002 murder of Jam Master Jay, has asked for a separate trial for his client. Cesar de Castro made the request due to having a heavy schedule of other hearings, also raising the possibility of the other defendants turning on his client.
3rd Man Charged For The Murder Of Jam Master Jay
Federal authorities announced that they were bringing charges against a third man for the murder of Hip-Hop icon Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC. Jay Bryant was already being held on a separate drug-related indictment, and his lawyer states that he plans to plead not guilty. The post 3rd Man Charged For The Murder Of Jam Master Jay appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
R. Kelly Put On Suicide Watch After Conviction
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cook County Department of Corrections / Cook County Department of Corrections If you’re an R. Kelly supporter than you need to put in extra prayer for your boy. The feds placed him under suicide watch after his recent guilty conviction. As spotted on Raw Story the disgraced crooner has been going through it since the conclusion of his federal trial in New York. According to attorney Steve Greenberg the U.S. Bureau of Prisons put the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer increase monitoring right after he was found guilty for sex crimes and racketeering. Greenberg did make it clear that the Chicago native has not expressed any desire to kill or injure himself but this approach is common practice in the federal prison system. The lawyer confirmed that the provision ...
Casanova’s Attorney Maybe Gearing For Full Acquittal After Bail Is Denied
Source: @Stretchd_34 of http://www.p3.photography / Radio One Digital It appears that Casanova will remain incarcerated—for now—after a judge denied the rapper the ability to post bail. According to VladTV, on Thursday (Jan 28) a federal magistrate judge has denied Casanova’s attempt to get out of jail while awaits court for charges of racketeering and drug trafficking. During the court hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Davison stated that while Casanova’s defense team provided a “formidable” argument for the “Woah” rapper on $2.5 million bail, but Davison expressed that he was “concerned” about the danger to the community if Casanova was released. “When you go back to the history and characteristics of this defense, this is a defendant who has, over the last decade, managed to rack...
The Feds Deny Kodak Black’s Request To Have His Sentenced Reduced
Source: (Photo by Johnny Louis/FilmMagic) / (Photo by Johnny Louis/FilmMagic) It seems Kodak Black will have to do his time as it was assigned. He was recently was told good luck with that regarding his request to shave his sentence down. As spotted on HipHopDX the Florida native got some bad news regarding his current bid. Last year the rapper had asked that he get an early release on his 46-month sentence that he got hit with due to possessing a firearm. Well a federal committee has reached their decision and they declined the plea; respectfully. Their reasoning is that he nor his legal team have cited a strong case for the reduction. “(Kodak Black) has not presented ‘extraordinary and compelling reasons’ supporting his request for release,” wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce O. Br...
Court ruling paves the way for Facebook to settle its facial recognition lawsuit
Facebook won preliminary approval late on Wednesday from a federal court for settlement of a lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected and stored biometric data of millions of users without their consent. The social media company had in July raised its settlement offer by $100 million to $650 million in relation to the lawsuit, in which Illinois users accused it of violating the U.S. state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act. The revised settlement agreement resolved the court’s concerns, leading to the preliminary approval of the class action settlement, Judge James Donato wrote in an order filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. “Preliminary approval of the amended stipulation of class action settlement, Dkt. No. 468, is granted, and a final approval h...
#LHHATL’s Arkansas Mo Charged With Fraud After Spending PPP Loan On Jewelry, Rolex
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta star Arkansas Mo has been arrested after the feds accuse him of using the government business loan to pay employees, on himself. According to the press release sent out by the Department of Justice, Arkansas Mo, whose real name is Maurice Fayne, was approved for the federal Payment Protection Program (PPP) for his trucking company, Flame Trucking on April 15, after stating that the business had 107 employees and an average monthly payroll of $1,490,200, according to an affidavit for the criminal complaint. The PPP loan program from the federal government aims to help small businesses and their workers survive during the Covid-19 pandemic. The loans are for businesses with 500 or fewer employees to pay workers’ salaries, rent, and ut...
