G Herbo is being sued for allegedly not paying the law firm he used to help him avoid prison time in his 2020 wire fraud case.
According to documents viewed by HipHopDX on Wednesday (September 25), Prince Lobel Tye is suing the Chicago rapper for breach of contract and unjust enrichment, alleging he stopped paying his legal fees two weeks before his sentencing in the case.
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“Mr. Wright has not paid and owes Prince Lobel $237,582.67 for legal work and services performed by the firm on his behalf,” the suit reads. “This amount includes interest in the amount of $26,542.85. The last payment made by Mr. Wright was on December 29, 2023.”
In addition to the amount owed, Lobel is seeking 1.2 percent interest per month for each month G has been delinquent.
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In January, G Herbo was sentenced to three years’ probation following a 2023 plea deal for his part in a plan to use stolen identities to fund private jets, a Jamaican villa and designer puppies.
The sentence corresponds to exactly what Herbo’s attorneys had asked for, despite prosecutors’ requests that the “We Don’t Care” rapper be required to serve a year and one day in prison, per KIRO. Their sentencing memo also proposed 36 months of supervised release following the suggested jail time.
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In addition to probation, Herbo was ordered to pay $139,968 in restitution and the same amount in forfeiture, as well as a fine of $5,500.
According to the sentencing memo, the judge presiding over this case deemed that, “Under the circumstances of this case, a sentence of probation will reflect the seriousness of the charge and protect the public.”
The rapper was first charged in the case back in late 2020. The federal fraud case brought in Massachusetts alleged that the rapper, his music promoter and other members of his crew “used stolen identifications to charge more than a million dollars’ worth of exotic services over a four-year period.”
The 14-count indictment stated Herbo and his associates scammed trips on private jets, limousine rides, exotic car rentals, a vacation at a Jamaican villa and even two designer puppies purchased for Herbo from a Michigan dealer in 2017.
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The scheme “centered on the defendants’ use of stolen credit card information and personal identities obtained either from the ‘dark web’ or other sources.” A charge of lying to agents was added the following year.
Herbo pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges in the summer of 2023. He made it clear at the time that he didn’t expect his associates to fold on him.
