DMX, 47, whose songs include the 2003 hit “X Gon’ Give it to Ya,” pleaded guilty in November to tax fraud. Promises by DMX to continue drug rehabilitation and to be accompanied by a drug counsellor during travel so he could continue his career “was a great big lie, a repeated lie as it turned out,” Rakoff said. “His activity shows he is a genuine flight risk in ways I hoped weren’t true,” the judge said. Richman said Simmons left a drug rehabilitation program in the Northeast to see his daughter in New York City. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua Naftalis told Rakoff that the issue wasn’t the use of drugs so much as the failure of DMX to follow court orders.

Source: National Post January 30, 2018 19:10 UTC