Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel was sentenced on Thursday to 24 months in prison for failing to pay taxes for three years on more than $1 million in income...
The Broadstreet Bully pleaded guilty in August 2011 for failing to pay more than $348,000 in Federal taxes for the years 2003 thru 2005.
Beans received several continuances to pay restitution but paid nothing.
Beanie ended up with a two years sentence, but it sounds like he got off lucky.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer
Prosecutors sought a three-year sentence for Sigel, describing him as a longtime criminal who has shown contempt for the law since he was a 15-year-old on the streets of South Philadelphia.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul L. Gray wrote in a sentencing memo that Sigel "has utterly failed to cooperate with the probation officer's attempts to determine his current financial condition."
"For all we know, [Sigel] has earned a significant sum of money and simply squirreled it away, out of the reach of the government. He would not even cooperate with the probation officer to permit a home visit," Gray wrote, "a most basic part of the presentence procedure."
