Mannn. Ja just cannot catch a break! The NY emcee is currently serving time for an unrelated violation (2007 gun charge) but luckily for him, this new sentence will run during the same time as his current bid and will only add an extra 4 to 12 months on. The 12 months would kind of stink being that’s an entire extra year tacked on, so let’s hope for the 4 months! Details after the jump.
(AHH) – Ja Rule was accused of failing to pay the IRS millions of dollars in taxable income that was earned from 2004 to 2006.
According to The Associated Press, the jail time will run concurrently with his two year sentence for attempted criminal possession of a weapon, stemming from a July, 2007 incident.
The new jail time means that job role could serve an extra 4 to 12 months in prison for the tax violation.
“I in no way attempted to deceive the government or do anything illegal,” Ja Rule said, reports the AP.
“I was a young man who made a lot of money — I’m getting a little choked up — I didn’t know how to deal with these finances….
In March, a federal judge pushed Ja Rule’s prison sentence for attempted criminal possession of a weapon back, so that he could finish an album in an attempt to settle his debt with the IRS.
Ja Rule, born Jeffrey Atkins, is currently serving two years in prison, after pleading guilty to attempted criminal weapon possession, stemming from an arrest in July of 2007, where police found a gun in his Maybach.
He must also pay $1.1 million in back taxes.
Care to comment, Fif?
