LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Hip-hop producer Jamal Rashid, also referred to as “Mally Mall,” was in federal custody Wednesday, the 8 Information Now Investigators have realized.
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Court docket data present that Rashid faces doable revocation of his supervised launch, that means a decide will resolve whether or not he ought to serve the rest of his sentence in jail.U.S. District Court docket Choose Gloria Navarro sentenced Rashid to 33 months in jail adopted by three years of supervised launch on Could 13, 2021, after he pleaded responsible to at least one depend of use of an interstate facility in assist of illegal exercise. Rashid admitted the escort companies he ran in Clark County between 2002 and 2014 had been fronts for prostitution.
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“Rashid operated a high-end prostitution business that transported victims across the United States, using various paid websites — such as Backpage and Eros — to advertise the victims for prostitution purposes,” a Division of Justice information launch acknowledged. “Rashid exploited hundreds of victims as: (a) “impartial contractors” who turned over to Rashid a portion of what they earned through prostitution; and (b) “precedence ladies” who turned over nearly all of the proceeds from prostitution to Rashid.”
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Rashid admitted to manipulating the victims, imposing guidelines, and threatening them, in keeping with federal prosecutors.
“Rashid encouraged victims to get tattoos of him to demonstrate their loyalty and led many of them to believe he would advance their careers in show business,” in keeping with the discharge.
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A employees member on the Nevada Southern Detention Middle in Pahrump instructed the 8 Information Now Investigators that Rashid has been in custody there since Tuesday evening.
Rashid appeared earlier than Justice of the Peace Choose Elayna Youcach on Wednesday afternoon, the place he was suggested of his rights and costs, and his lawyer requested a continuance of the detention listening to for someday, which the decide granted, in keeping with court docket paperwork. Rashid will stay in custody.
LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 16: Mally Mall is seen on February 16, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. (Picture by OGUT/Star Max/GC Photographs/Getty Photographs)
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Navarro denied a request from Rashid to now not serve probation in February and pointed to the seriousness of the crime the music producer dedicated and his “concerted effort over at least 12 years to operate an illegal prostitution business” in her order.
“Defendant’s conduct was not the result of a single poor decision or regrettable judgment,” Navarro wrote. “Rather, his livelihood for more than a decade depended on his illegal operation.”
At Rashid’s sentencing, Navarro referred to as him a ‘monster’ prior to now, identified his victims went by means of a type of imprisonment, and mentioned she wasn’t certain she would settle for the deal as a result of his actions had been so horrific.
In a Jan. 20 movement, Rashid’s lawyer, Chris Rasmussen, requested for early termination of supervised launch, stating it might “dramatically simplify things,” and that the situations of probation intrude with Rashid’s music profession as a result of he wants permission to journey out of Nevada.
“The mere inconvenience of having to obtain approval to travel for work purposes from probation and the court is an insufficient reason to terminate his supervision,” Navarro responded in her order.
Rashid’s supervised launch is scheduled to run out on Sept. 17, 2026, in keeping with court docket paperwork. He lives in Las Vegas.
Rashid’s detention listening to is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, whereas a listening to relating to doable revocation of his supervised launch is scheduled for Nov. 17.
The 8 Information Now Investigators reached out to Rashid’s lawyer on Wednesday afternoon.
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