G Herbo Sued For Allegedly Stiffing Law Firm For $237K
G Herbo is being sued for allegedly not paying the regulation agency he used to assist him keep away from jail time in his 2020 wire fraud case.
According to paperwork considered by HipHopDX on Wednesday (September 25), Prince Lobel Tye is suing the Chicago rapper for breach of contract and unjust enrichment, alleging he stopped paying his authorized charges two weeks earlier than his sentencing within the case.
“Mr. Wright has not paid and owes Prince Lobel $237,582.67 for legal work and services performed by the firm on his behalf,” the swimsuit reads. “This amount includes interest in the amount of $26,542.85. The last payment made by Mr. Wright was on December 29, 2023.”
In addition to the quantity owed, Lobel is in search of 1.2 p.c curiosity per thirty days for every month G has been delinquent.
In January, G Herbo was sentenced to 3 years’ probation following a 2023 plea deal for his half in a plan to make use of stolen identities to fund personal jets, a Jamaican villa and designer puppies.
The sentence corresponds to precisely what Herbo’s attorneys had requested for, regardless of prosecutors’ requests that the “We Don’t Care” rapper be required to serve a 12 months and sooner or later in jail, per KIRO. Their sentencing memo additionally proposed 36 months of supervised launch following the urged jail time.
In addition to probation, Herbo was ordered to pay $139,968 in restitution and the identical quantity in forfeiture, in addition to a tremendous of $5,500.
According to the sentencing memo, the choose presiding over this case deemed that, “Under the circumstances of this case, a sentence of probation will reflect the seriousness of the charge and protect the public.”
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The rapper was first charged within the case again in late 2020. The federal fraud case introduced in Massachusetts alleged that the rapper, his music promoter and different members of his crew “used stolen identifications to charge more than a million dollars’ worth of exotic services over a four-year period.”
The 14-count indictment acknowledged Herbo and his associates scammed journeys on personal jets, limousine rides, unique automobile leases, a trip at a Jamaican villa and even two designer puppies bought for Herbo from a Michigan vendor in 2017.
The scheme “centered on the defendants’ use of stolen credit card information and personal identities obtained either from the ‘dark web’ or other sources.” A cost of mendacity to brokers was added the next 12 months.
Herbo pleaded responsible to wire fraud expenses in the summertime of 2023. He made it clear on the time that he didn’t count on his associates to fold on him.
