Rapper Beanie Sigel Gets Year in Prison
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Gangster rapper Beanie Sigel was sentenced to a year in federal prison Friday on a gun-possession charge stemming from a traffic stop.
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Foxy Brown was sentenced to one year in jail Friday for violating probation stemming from a fight with two manicurists in a New York City salon. Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson sentenced the rapper at a probation hearing for Brown, 28.
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The rapper the Game was sentenced on Monday to 60 days in jail after pleading no contest to felony possession of a firearm in a school zone, The Associated Press reported. Under a plea agreement, two other counts against him were dropped, but his sentence also includes 150 hours of community service and three years of probation. The Game, 28, above, whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, was accused of pulling a gun on an opposing player during a pickup basketball game at a south Los Angeles school nearly a year ago. ... A three-judge court in Los Angeles has denied an appeal by the R&B singer Ronald Isley of his 37-month federal sentence for tax evasion. Mr. Isley, 66, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and one of the Isley Brothers, whose hits included âTwist and Shout,â argued that his sentence was unreasonable because of his age and poor health. The appellate court said the trial judge correctly âbalanced the need to sanction Mr. Isleyâs âpathologicalâ tax evasion against the need to accommodate Mr. Isleyâs poor health.â Mr. Isley is in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Ind. His projected release date is April 2010.
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Tom Sizemore was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison for violating his probation in a drug case.
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The man known as Don Vito on MTV's "Viva La Bam" show has been sentenced to 10 years to life on probation after he was convicted on two counts of sexual assault on a child.
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A Colombian drug lord was sentenced to 40 years in prison in Florida on Thursday and ordered to forfeit $110 million, authorities said.
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Snoop Dogg pleaded has pleaded guilty to one count of felony possession of a dangerous weapon. The rapper was sentenced to 160 hours of community service and three years' probation, his attorney said.
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Snoop Dogg pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of felony possession of a dangerous weapon and was sentenced to 160 hours of community service and three years probation, his attorney said.
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A U.S. judge on Monday gave a 29-month prison sentence to David Radler, one-time president of media giant Hollinger International Inc, whose trial testimony helped convict former press baron Conrad Black.
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A New York judge sent rapper Foxy Brown to jail for a year on Friday, ruling she violated the terms of her probation by failing to attend anger management classes and failing to stay out of trouble.
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A man who admitted smuggling more than 24 tons of cocaine into the United States from 1984 to 2000 was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison.
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PHILADELPHIA - Gangster rapper Beanie Sigel was sentenced to a year in federal prison Friday on a gun-possession charge stemming from a traffic stop.    Sigel, 30, could have received more than three years, but the judge cited the rapper's charity work and drug abuse treatment in taking leniency...
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One of Hollywood&#39;s top fund-raisers was sentenced on Monday to 63 months in prison for skimming donations intended for charity galas to pay personal expenses, prosecutors in Los Angeles said.
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Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst, who allegedly hit two people with his car on purpose, gets a suspended jail sentence.
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Joey Buttafuoco, who gained notoriety in the 1990s when his teenage girlfriend shot his wife in the face in New York, was sentenced to a year in jail Tuesday after pleading no contest to possessing ammunition as a felon.
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A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced  Baltimore Ravens football star Jamal Lewis on Wednesday to four  months in prison and one year of probation for using a cell  phone to try to set up a cocaine deal.
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Scott Levine, a Florida businessman convicted of stealing more than 1 billion data records from Acxiom Corp. deserved the eight-year prison term he got last year, a federal appeals court has ruled.