Rapper Ja Rule Gets More Time 28 Months For Failing To Pay Taxes

Uncle Sam doesn't pay and it's evident in Rapper Ja Rule new sentence.  As if getting hit with a two-year jail bid wasn't enough, rapper Ja Rule just got some more time tacked onto his current sentence. On Monday (July 18), Rule (born Jeffrey Atkins) was sentenced to 28 months in prison to run concurrent with his existing sentence for failing to file tax returns with the IRS for more than $1.1 million in taxes.

Rule's attorney, Stacey Richman, told MTV News she is grateful the court didn't judge the rapper on his public persona. "We were all very concerned about what the potentials were, and we think that the outcome was very fair and that the court took him into account as an individual, and we appreciate that tremendously," she said.



In December 2010, Rule pleaded guilty to attempted gun possession stemming from a 2007 arrest. The 35-year old MC turned himself in June 8 to begin the bid, and got hit with the additional time Monday in a New Jersey federal court.

The sentence was the result of Ja's March admission of his failure to file for money earned from 2004 to 2006. So if anybody out there is keeping tally he got 2 years for gun charges  and they added 28 months for tax evasion, so we will round this out too 5 years...Dammmn!!
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