Thursday, March 28, 2024

DMX Asks to Play His Songs For Judge at Upcoming Tax Fraud Sentencing

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Rapper DMX poses for a photo during week five of the BIG3 three on three basketball league at UIC Pavilion on July 23, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.
Rapper DMX poses for a photo during week five of the BIG3 three on three basketball league at UIC Pavilion on July 23, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.

*DMX is hoping to play several of his songs at his at his upcoming sentencing before the judge announces his punishment for tax fraud.

According to a new court filing fro his lawyer Murray Richman, the lawyer “may be too emotional to speak” at the March 29 sentencing. “We will ask to play a few of his compositions so that the court may understand him genuinely and his voice,” Richman wrote.

“Slippin’” and “Convo” are among the DMX songs on the playlist for court, should the judge agree to this. (See video above.)

The rapper, born Earl Simmons is seeking probation when he is sentenced for cheating Uncle Sam out of $1.7 million on March 29. He faces restitution of $2.3 along with a maximum fine of $100,000 fine in addition to jail time when he is sentenced before Manhattan federal Judge Jed Rakoff.

The feds have asked that Simmons get five years in the slammer for his “brazen, multi-year scheme,” which included insisting he get paid in cash and having other payments sent to accounts set up for financial surrogates.

Richman will argue that his client deserves leniency because of his tough upbringing and because Simmons’ ability to work is the only way the feds will get paid.

“For any plan to be successful we must get Mr. Simmons back to work and in a healthy manner,” Richman said. “He is one of the few people who indeed can achieve the restitution and make the government whole.”

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