Guilty plea puts Chicago rap star G Herbo on path to federal prison
The more serious wire fraud count carries up to 20 years in prison, but under federal sentencing guidelines Wright would likely face a term in the two- to three-year range, calculations that were still being worked out as of Friday.
But behind the scenes, Wright’s attorneys were negotiating a resolution short of trial. Court records show the plea deal was first proposed earlier this year and was signed by Wright on June 5. “Honestly I’m just trying to capitalize and build other people up,” Wright told the Tribune in a 2019 interview. “I’m a firm believer that life is what you make it. ... I been broke so many times. I was supposed to be dead. I was supposed to be in jail. But I’m still here.”
Strong bought and traded the illicit account information, which they referred to as “moves,” on the dark web, though there was no indication Wright was involved in that aspect of the scheme, the plea stated. Wright also admitted in the plea agreement to conspiring to fraudulently charge more than $80,000 in private jet flights in 2017. On one flight from Tampa Bay to Chicago in March 2017, Wright was listed on the passenger log as “Herbert Light,” the plea stated.Wright and five companions “posted photographs and videos from the private jet,” and Wright used footage from the plane in a music video for his song “Yerky’s,” the plea stated.
Wright wound up traveling there for six days in July 2017, with a guest list of eight associates, according to the plea. The $14,600 reservation was charged to a credit card that was later flagged as a fraudulent transaction when the actual cardholder disputed the charge, the plea stated.
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