Prosecutors say Fetty Wap made $5 million together with his music and he didn't have to site visitors medication to complement it

• Fetty Wap might be sentenced on Wednesday after pleading responsible in connection to a drug trafficking cost.
• The rapper’s lawyer has requested the minimal sentence — 5 years in jail.
• Prosecutors say he ought to serve at the least seven years and three months.

Prosecutors In New York are requesting that Fetty Wap be sentenced to at the least seven years in jail for dealing cocaine, saying in a sentencing memo that the crime was particularly egregious contemplating that the rapper did not even have to deal medication to make cash. 

Fetty Wap — whose actual identify is Willie Junior Maxwell II — is ready to be sentenced in Brooklyn federal court docket on Wednesday after pleading responsible in August to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or extra of cocaine.

In a sentencing memos final week, Maxwell’s lawyer requested that he obtain the minimal sentence doable — 5 years in jail — whereas prosecutors mentioned he ought to serve between seven to 9 years. 

Prosecutors listed a number of causes they consider that Maxwell deserves an extended sentence, together with the truth that he had a profitable music profession and did not have to deal medication within the first place. 

Maxwell is in contrast to many defendants who flip to to drug trafficking for monetary causes, prosecutors mentioned.

“He had a profitable profession as a rap artist and the power to make an trustworthy residing and supply for himself and his household,” the sentencing memo mentioned. “Certainly the defendant instructed the Probation Division that he made $5 million throughout his music profession. Nonetheless, this defendant selected to complement his revenue by trafficking giant portions of medicine — medication he knew would break lives.” 

Whereas Maxwell had not been arrested beforehand on drug expenses, prosecutors mentioned he admitted to the probation division that he had dealt medication beforehand in 2014, and that his hit music, “Lure Queen,” was an “ode to a former girlfriend” who assisted him in distributing cocaine in New Jersey.

In the meantime, Maxwell’s lawyer argued in her sentencing memo that Maxwell obtained into drug dealing to assist relations, who had develop into depending on him. 

Legal professional Elizabeth Macedonio mentioned her shopper is the daddy of 9 youngsters by seven completely different ladies, and at all times financially supported his youngsters and different relations. When the pandemic hit, and alternatives to carry out evaporated, Macedonio mentioned Maxwell turned determined to begin earning money once more to assist others. 

“Abruptly it felt like his life was getting in reverse and he turned ashamed when he started to wrestle to maintain up the life-style he had created for therefore many,” Macedonio wrote. 

Macedonio mentioned Maxwell now understands that he “doesn’t have to hold the load of the world on his shoulders” and isn’t more likely to deal medication once more, main her to suggest a decrease sentence. 

Maxwell was arrested in October 2021, and was initially launched on bail.

His bail was revoked two months later when he was caught on FaceTime threatening an individual with a gun, and he has been in jail ever since.