Rapper Lil' Kim Gets 366 Days for Perjury

[freeandfun1]

Rapper Lil' Kim Gets 366 Days for Perjury

The ONLY reason this story has any interest for me is the fact that she was sentenced to a year for doing EXACTLY what Bill Clinton did. The leftists love to say the impeachment was about a BJ when in reality, it was about him lying to a Grand Jury just a Lil' Kim did. I wish he too had been sentenced to a year in prison!

NEW YORK -- Rapper Lil' Kim escaped a stiff prison sentence Wednesday after telling a judge she was a "God-fearing good person" who regretted lying to a federal grand jury about a 2001 shootout outside a Manhattan radio station.

The Grammy winner was sentenced to one year and one day for perjury and conspiracy -- a term far less than the three years and seven months sought by prosecutors.

Bally's

U.S. District Judge Gerard Lynch said he had weighed 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 after a false statements conviction.

Lynch suggested Lil' Kim (real name: Kimberly Jones) deserved more time because she had lied about a violent crime, not a white-collar scheme. He also noted that unlike Stewart, she took the witness stand at her trial earlier this year and repeated her lies.

"You sat right next to me there and stared in the eyes of the jurors, and you tried to charm them and you tried to fake them out," Lynch said.

But the judge also credited Lil' Kim with returning to court Wednesday and admitting she had lied all along to protect members of her entourage.

"At the time I thought it was the right thing to do, but I now know it was wrong," she said, her voice breaking.

Lil' Kim said she wanted to "take complete blame" for the actions of her assistant, Monique Dopwell, who's awaiting sentencing for the same crimes.

She also asked the judge "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."

Lil' Kim, who was ordered to report to prison Sept. 19, left the courthouse without speaking to reporters.

Some fans who showed up outside said they were relieved that the sentence wasn't harsher.

"I'm just excited 'cause it's not that long," said Alfredo Borbon, 22, a waiter who wore a pair of boots with the rapper's name on them. "We can wait; us fans can wait that long."

The artist, 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.

The case stemmed from a gun battle that erupted 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," which contained an insult to Lil' Kim from rival Foxy Brown. One man was hurt in the shootout that followed.

Before the grand jury and at the trial, the rapper claimed 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 defendant's career began with an impromptu performance for Notorious B.I.G. on the street 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 such as "Crush On You" and others with unmentionable titles.

She won a Grammy in 2001 for her part in the hit remake of "Lady Marmalade."

In sentencing Lil' Kim for perjury, the judge cited the unsolved slaying of Notorious B.I.G as evidence of a troubling code of silence in the hip-hop community.

"It's because people did what you did, that we still don't know who killed him," he said.

 

[Said1]

The ONLY reason this story has any interest for me is the fact that she was sentenced to a year for doing EXACTLY what Bill Clinton did. The leftists love to say the impeachment was about a BJ when in reality, it was about him lying to a Grand Jury just a Lil' Kim did. I wish he too had been sentenced to a year in prison!

You mean she didn't have sex with that women either!

 

[freeandfun1]

You mean she didn't have sex with that women either!

That is not the perjury he committed. The perjury he committed was in regards to Jennifer Flowers, not just whatever her name is (I forgot).

 

[Said1]

That is not the perjury he committed. The perjury he committed was in regards to Jennifer Flowers, not just whatever her name is (I forgot).

I was kidding. Tough crowd.

 

[freeandfun1]

I was kidding. Tough crowd.

Sorry, I just don't like diluting what he did. The libs would love your reply as they would say, "see, even a conservative knows it was just because of sex".

 

[Said1]

Sorry, I just don't like diluting what he did. The libs would love your reply as they would say, "see, even a conservative knows it was just because of sex".

I understand. Plus, a lib didn't reply, I replied. Big difference. :teeth:

 

[Gabriella84]

She got off REALLY easy. She deserved at least 10 years.

 

[Joz]

.... a lib didn't reply, I replied. Big difference.

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[freeandfun1]

She got off REALLY easy. She deserved at least 10 years.

So what did Bill deserve?

 

[Gabriella84]

So what did Bill deserve?

The same sentence Karl Rove deserves. :blah2:

 

[freeandfun1]

The same sentence Karl Rove deserves. :blah2:

See, you come in here and say she should get at least 10 years for perjury, yet when I ask what Bill should get for his perjury, you won't answer the question so it is obvious you don't have an intellectually honest bone in your body. You are nothing more than a drone following your DNC leaders in circles.

 

[Gabriella84]

Bill Clinton was guilty of perjury. Karl Rove is guilty of perjury.
What part of the question have I not answered?

 

[freeandfun1]

Bill Clinton was guilty of perjury. Karl Rove is guilty of perjury.
What part of the question have I not answered?

First off, you clearly stated that Lil' Kim should have gotten 10 years for her perjury. Therefore, I asked you what you thought Bill should have gotten for his. You haven't answered. Carl Rove? When was he convicted of perjury? Oh, he wasn't. And if you claim he should be, then for what?

You seem to forget that Bill was found guilty of perjury. Why should his sentence be any less than anybody else's that committs perjury?

 

[Shattered]

First off, you clearly stated that Lil' Kim should have gotten 10 years for her perjury. Therefore, I asked you what you thought Bill should have gotten for his. You haven't answered. Carl Rove? When was he convicted of perjury? Oh, he wasn't. And if you claim he should be, then for what?

You seem to forget that Bill was found guilty of perjury. Why should his sentence be any less than anybody else's that committs perjury?

She can't play with you anymore tonight - she's on 'vacation'.

 

[Joz]

She can't play with you anymore tonight - she's on 'vacation'.

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[KarlMarx]

Bill Clinton was guilty of perjury. Karl Rove is guilty of perjury.
What part of the question have I not answered?

From the Merriam Webster Dictionary (www.m-w.com)

Main Entry: per·ju·ry
Pronunciation: 'p&r-j&-rE, 'pp&rj-rE
Function: noun
: the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing

Perjury is lying while under oath in a court of law, it isn't lying in general. If that were true, then the following band of idiots should be in prison

1. MoveOn.org for lying about Bush's service record, claiming that he was AWOL while serving on the National Guard.

2. John Kerry for a number of things, including the claim that he was stationed in Cambodia on Christmas of 1968.

3. Al Gore for claiming that he invented the Internet or played a major role in legislating its development

4. Cameron Diaz, the Hollywood dingbat actress who claimed that if George W Bush were re-elected, rape would become legal.

5. The rest of Hollywood who swore that if Bush won the election, they'd leave the country

6. Any number of Democrats who claim that Social Security will remain solvent until 2070 or thereabouts

7. Hillary Clinton for pretending she's a moderate, that she represents Upstate New York or whenever she smiles

8. Anyone who claims that Bush lied to get us into a war in Iraq

9. The Mr Cholesterol of the Left, Michael Moore, for his documentaries

10. Louie Fara-KKK-han for claiming that the million man march really had a million participants, and that the white race is a result of a black mad scientist's experiment gone wrong

11. Dan "I never met a fact that I liked" Rather for the forged memos about Bush that got his butt and CBS's in so much hot water.

12. Senator Byrd who claimed that filibustering judicial nominees in the Senate was a "time honored tradition" (it is, if you consider a "time honored tradition" as anything that the Democrats in the Senate have been doing since 2002)

13. The NOW and the feminists for their "massaging" of statistics, the more egregious examples, inflating rape statistics, sexual harassment statistics

14. AIDS activists for claiming that AIDS is quickly becoming a heterosexual disease when in fact it has been and remains quite the opposite (of all confirmed AIDS/HIV cases in this country, over 80% are gay/bisexual men and/or intravenous drug abusers)

 

[Trigg]

U.S. District Judge Gerard Lynch said he had weighed 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 after a false statements conviction.


This is a lame reason to let her off so easy. Gee if I lie to a grand jury would they let me off so easy??? Nope, cause I'm not famous.