He demanded loyalty from women who were only allowed to keep a fraction of earnings, federal prosecutors said.
Hip-hop manufacturer Jamal “Mally Mall” Rashid changed into sentenced Thursday to 33 months in prison for running a high-stop prostitution provider primarily based totally out of Las Vegas.
The 45-year-vintage Rashid ran the intercourse offerings ring with girls he dubbed "Priority Girls," pimping them out from 2002 to 2014 and charging customers among $1,000 to $10,000 in keeping with date, federal prosecutors said.
In maximum cases, girls running for Rashid best obtained a small fraction, usually $100, of a date's proceeds and he saved tight manipulate in their activities, in keeping with authorities.
"After a girl has become a Priority Girl, she quickly found out that the defendant anticipated her to comply with many rules," in keeping with a sentencing memo with the aid of using Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou.
"For example, the defendant required Priority Girls to textual content him after they went anywhere, they had been now no longer allowed up to now anyone, and defendant endorsed them to get Rashid associated tattoos to illustrate their loyalty to him."
Rashid had already pleaded responsible in October 2019 to at least one matter of the use of an interstate facility in the useful resource of illegal activity.
“Jamal familiar complete duty for his behavior that befell nearly a decade in the past," protection lawyer Richard Schonfeld said. "He will serve his sentence and appears ahead to returning to the song industry.”
U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro additionally sentenced Rashid to a few years of supervised launch as soon as hes out of prison.
Steven Sadow, some other lawyer for Rashid, pledged that his patron could "flip his lifestyles around" even as in custody.
“Jamal lengthy in the past familiar duty for his moves in this example and has labored tough to show his lifestyles around," Sadow said. "He continually diagnosed that his punishment could probably consist of a great time in federal custody, however seems ahead to his launch and a hit go back to the song business.”
Rashid has labored with artists together with Tyga, Justin Bieber, Usher, and Sean Kingston. He changed into additionally covered in the VH1 series "Love & Hip Hop Hollywood."
