Rapper Ja Rule Sentenced In Failing To Pay Taxes

Ja Rule, 35, was sentenced in New York City last month to up to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to attempted criminal weapon possession. The gun wasn't registered. In the federal case, U.S. Magistrate Patty Shwartz in Newark ruled that the majority of his 28-month federal sentence could be served at the same time as the New York state prison sentence.

The federal time will be served at the Oneida Correctional Facility in upstate New York, where he is serving the state sentence.

Hip-hop star Ja Rule was sentenced on Monday to two years in a New Jersey prison for failing to file income tax returns. After failing to pay income taxes on $3 million, Ja Rule was sentenced on July 18 to over two years in prison.

Ja Rule’s long fall from grace reached a new low in a New Jersey courtroom on Monday when the Queens-born rapper and actor was sentenced to 28 months in prison for failing to file federal income tax returns over a five-year period.

In March, Ja Rule, who’s real name is Jeffrey Atkins, admitted in court he had failed to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income that he earned from 2004 to 2006 from two companies — ASJA Inc. and Rule Tours Inc. – depriving the government of $1.1 million in taxes. Judge Shwartz said that the two sentences could be served concurrently and that the federal sentence could be served at New York State’s Oneida Correctional Facility, where Ja Rule is incarcerated.