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Rapper Lil' Kim Heading To Prison
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Posted on 07/06/2005 12:48:48 PM PDT by Millee

Grammy-award winning rapper Lil' Kim was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison and fined $50,000 for lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends involved in a 2001 shootout outside a Manhattan radio station.

AP Image Lil' Kim Although many rappers have served time in prison, Lil' Kim is the first big-name female artist to do so.

Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, could have faced up to 20 years -- five years each on three counts of perjury and one count of conspiracy -- at her sentencing before U.S. District Judge Gerard Lynch. She was convicted of the charges in March.

The 30-year-old performer was convicted four months ago of lying to protect friends involved in a 2001 gun battle outside a Manhattan radio station.

The gun battle outside the station WQHT happened when Lil' Kim's entourage crossed paths with a rival group. One man was hurt in the shootout


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: beeyotch; conspiracy; crime; donutwatch; lilkim; newyork; newyorkcity; perjury; plainbrownrapper; rapsheet; skankyho
Racism at work. If only she were white like Michael Jackson!
1 posted on 07/06/2005 12:48:48 PM PDT by Millee
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To: Millee

Whoa! Lil Kim leaked Valerie Plame's name to Novak??


2 posted on 07/06/2005 12:51:23 PM PDT by The G Man (The Red States ... the world's only hope for survival.)
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To: The G Man


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With Howard Dean the dems have formally graduated from "disarray" to "debacle", with "irretrievable disaster" just around the corner.
3 posted on 07/06/2005 1:00:44 PM PDT by speed_addiction ( Somethings gnaw on a man worse'n dyin'!)
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To: Millee
...year and a day in prison and fined $50,000 for lying to a federal grand jury...

She obviously forgot the "...I can't recall..my prepared statement..." Clinton mantra.

4 posted on 07/06/2005 1:06:46 PM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("Love and cooking should both be approached with wild abandon" - Author unknown)
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To: Millee; xsmommy; anniegetyourgun; JennysCool; Happygal

The woman just oozes class.

At least that's what I think is oozing there

5 posted on 07/06/2005 1:17:45 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

yeah, i understand she didn't wear that sort of get-up to court.,,,


6 posted on 07/06/2005 1:20:42 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: martin_fierro
The woman just oozes class.

And herpes.

7 posted on 07/06/2005 1:24:55 PM PDT by Sloth (History's greatest monsters: Hitler, Stalin, Mao & Durbin)
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To: Millee
What people go to jail for perjury who knew I thought Clinton set precedence(sp)
8 posted on 07/06/2005 1:28:29 PM PDT by CONSERVE
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To: Millee

NEW YORK (July 6) - Grammy-winning rapper Lil' Kim was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison and fined $50,000 for lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends involved in a 2001 shootout outside a Manhattan radio station.

It was far less than the 20-year maximum she could have gotten and the nearly three-year sentence prosecutors had sought.

U.S. District Judge Gerard Lynch said he had considered the public perception of sending a young black entertainer to prison far longer than Martha Stewart, who spent five months in prison and remains under house arrest.

While many rappers have served time in prison, Lil' Kim, who was convicted in March, is the first big-name female artist to do so.

Before the sentence was handed down, Lil' Kim spoke briefly, her voice breaking. She admitted to lying to the grand jury and at her trial. "At the time I thought it was the right thing to do but I now know it was wrong," she said.

She also asked the judge to weigh more than just this one event. "I have worked hard my entire life for everything I have, everything I have accomplished," Lil' Kim said. "I ask you to consider my entire life's work and not just the days in the grand jury and on the witness stand in the courtroom. I'm a God-fearing, good person."

The rapper has to report to prison by Sept. 19. Her lawyers are hoping she will be sent to the facility in Danbury, Conn., so that she can be closer to her mother. She didn't say anything as she left the courthouse.

Lil' Kim, who turns 30 next week, was the sidekick and mistress of the late Notorious B.I.G. As a solo artist, she has become known for her revealing outfits and raunchy lyrics. She won a Grammy in 2001 for her part in the hit remake of "Lady Marmalade."

The rapper told the grand jury she did not notice two of her close friends at the scene of the shootout - her manager, Damion Butler, and Suif Jackson, known as "Gutta." Both have pleaded guilty to gun charges.

Jurors at Lil' Kim's trial saw radio station security photos that depicted Butler opening a door for the rap star, and two witnesses who once made records with Lil' Kim said they saw her at the station with Butler and Jackson.

The gun battle happened outside WQHT-FM, known as Hot 97, when Lil' Kim's entourage crossed paths with a rival rap group, Capone-N-Noreaga.

Lil' Kim's group confronted the others about the Capone-N-Noreaga song "Bang, Bang" that contained an insult to Lil' Kim from rival Foxy Brown. One man was hurt in the shootout that followed.

Hot 97 is the same station where the posses of 50 Cent and The Game traded bullets in February.

At the trial, Lil' Kim testified that she had a falling out after the shooting with Butler and with Antoine "Banger" Spain and James "Lil' Cease" Lloyd, the two witnesses who said they saw her with Butler and Jackson.

She said they were freeloading at her New Jersey townhouse. "I was just fed up," she told jurors. "They were taking advantage of me."

Her career began with an impromptu street performance for Notorious B.I.G. in their Brooklyn neighborhood. She became "Queen Bee," the only woman in his otherwise all-male clique.

Her 1996 debut album, "Hard Core," was laced with sexually explicit lyrics and became a big hit, thanks to songs like "Crush On You" and others with unmentionable titles.

In other legal problems, Lil' Kim was sued earlier this year by two men who say she failed to pay them for songwriting and performing services for the 2003 album "La Bella Mafia," which sold more than 1 million copies.

When she arrived at the courthouse Wednesday, some fans were there to proclaim their support.

One man's T-shirt read "Free Lil' Kim" and "Real Men Don't Snitch."


9 posted on 07/06/2005 1:58:29 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (www.lp.org)
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To: martin_fierro

Do they make striped/orange pasties?


10 posted on 07/06/2005 1:59:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: martin_fierro

Word.


11 posted on 07/06/2005 2:10:09 PM PDT by socal_parrot (Tina Delgado is alive! ALIVE!)
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To: Millee

Bush's Fault.


12 posted on 07/06/2005 2:31:45 PM PDT by jw777
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To: martin_fierro

That picture and "oozes" just seem to go together.


13 posted on 07/06/2005 2:33:00 PM PDT by Millee (So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
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To: speed_addiction
recent photo

mugshot from 96

Amazing what a little airbrush can do, isn't it? Not to mention some crappy plastic surgery. Looks like she is working towards Michael's nose.

14 posted on 07/06/2005 3:00:00 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: Millee

Who?


15 posted on 07/06/2005 3:04:51 PM PDT by Fintan (FReeper # 6603)
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To: speed_addiction
"Lil Kim is phat. P-h-a-t...phat."


16 posted on 07/06/2005 5:17:28 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70 (Current member of the I.P.M.P.C.W.)
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