Terrance “Gangsta” Williams, the half-brother of Cash Money Records co-founders Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams, was reportedly released from prison earlier this month, although the judge won’t explain why. Williams, who’s said to have helped bankroll Cash Money in the 1990s, had been behind bars for over 20 years on a life sentence.
As a member of the Hot Boys gang, he’d been dealing heroin and plotting murders, but the FBI ultimately busted him using wiretaps. According to NOLA.com, court records show he was plotting to kill a group of New York drug dealers in New Orleans to get paid for heroin they’d shipped by mail when the feds intercepted the package and listened as Williams hatched a murder plan. Consequently, he pleaded guilty to engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise and solicitation for murder and was sentenced to life plus 20 years.
But Williams was unexpectedly released on January 3 after U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle resentenced him to 27.5 years. The Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows he walked out of prison at the age of 47. Federal law typically requires judges to “state in open court the reasons for the imposition of a particular sentence,” but judges often bury a defendant’s cooperation and its benefits by sealing records, hearings and transcripts.
In 2001, the federal judiciary began restricting public disclosure of judges’ reasons for sentences, citing inmate safety. The Bureau of Prisons also banned inmates from being in possession of their sentencing documents, amid reports of assaults over them. Just six years ago, a task force formed by the federal judiciary recommended curtailing online access to plea and sentencing records across the federal court system, although it hasn’t been adopted yet.
“Defendants want their cooperation secret for their safety; prosecutors want it secret so that defendants are not afraid to cooperate,” U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby wrote in a 2019 article. “Pity the journalist or citizen who seeks to know with certainty what happened at a particular federal sentencing.”
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Court records show Williams began helping the government after his arrest, though it did nothing to help him. In 1999, prosecutors filed a “5K” motion, noting his “substantial assistance” in securing guilty pleas from co-defendants.“
As prosecutors explained, “The defendant also provided information to the state authorities regarding a number of murders and urged persons who had witnessed murders to come forward as witnesses and contact the others.” But a co-defendant implicated Williams in two murders after his guilty pleas, and prosecutors declined to recommend a sentence drop.
Essentially, it’s possible Williams provided some additional inside information to the government in the years since that worked in his favor. U.S. Sentencing Commission data shows one in six defendants received a benefit for cooperation in 2020, about twice the national rate, in the federal districts based in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Sorry n**** I’m trying to come home
Snitch
That boy been TELLIN. Just like a NO nicca
Mr ‘Gangsta’, very good at murders and snitching.
Life plus 20!!! Idk, if I got some info to get outta that then I might just have to take that label fr fr! He got outta murder case 6 TIMES wth! That probably had something to do with why he got that time in the first place they was like we got his ass. now
He allegedly murdered 40 people in New Orleans.
Hey, you’re not missing much. Instead of watching me get butt r**** in prison, he now gets to see them get the same physical, mentally, financially,and sexually from his older brother. And your brother is broke trying to play like he’s still rich but still can’t pay his rent, artist, taxes. Keep this up and he’ll be the one behind bars.
Men not me
thank god, terrence. a lot of the brothers being set free. now free r. kelly.
U an idiot! Free R Kelly u moron? Wow sone of u dumber than dirt and racist as shit. U pedophile ass mofo. Should of been one of ur relatives and see what u would say then. The victims were black too u idiot. U talk like it’s a black and white thing. Brainless clown!
Shut up fagget
So he a rat. What’s so hard to figure out?
A free one though.
I just don’t understand why New Orleans muthaphuckas refuse to brush their teeth? My sister received oral from a NO negga in college. Stanking mouth gave her a yeast infection.
You dumb ignorant AZZZZ whatever bytch or nigga!!! I born and raised in N.O. and dats not a FACT all niggas from N.O. don’t brush their teeth. That’s Bullshyt!! Ya sista pussy probably was already yeasted up and stanky. The nigga probably kicked her azz out once she busted her legs open and he got a Whiff of her contaminated stanky AZZ!!!
ya boy snitched
You would too if you was looking at Forever in jail. There is no need to be “solid” and spending your whole life in jail when no one is being solid with you .
Baby gave the judge Weezy’s publishing.
Let’s just face fact and one fact is that faced with spending the rest of ur life in concrete bullet proof glass boxes with the worse people society has to offer 90% of people are goin to cooperate and that’s just facts especially these rap mfs do u think the have the self discipline to go from mansions to 8x10boxes whiling? Hell no the same way everybody reading this aint gonna give up all there possessions,friends and family to go sit in a concrete box for the rest of there life just to have the label (Solid) when people mention there name. The only people that choose to take that L are people that aren’t mentally stable and most likely don’t have nothing or nobody out in the world for them and the people that don’t get offered a opportunity to cooperate that’s it So all y’all will get y’all’s turn to make that choice one day if ur out there living that life let’s see what it’s gonna be