A decide abrogated Basketball Wives‘ Brittish “Cierrah” Williams’ bond at her court docket listening to, and he or she was taken into the U.S. Marshal’s custody on Tuesday, Feb. 20, after failing to show herself in at a federal jail to begin her sentence, Radar On-line reported.
Again in Might 2023, Williams, 34, pled responsible to 5 counts of misuse of a Social Safety quantity, 4 counts of financial institution fraud, three counts of constructing false statements to the IRS, and three counts of wire fraud. She was indicted in September 2021.
5 months later, the Marriage Boot Camp star was handed a four-year sentence and ordered to pay $564,069 in restitution. She would additionally obtain 5 years of supervised launch.
The decide initially set her give up date to Dec. 11, 2023. However the matriarch and her authorized counsel requested a month extension to allow her to spend the vacations along with her daughter and assist her mom, who has custody of the fact star’s 5-year-old daughter throughout her incarceration, discover ample housing for her daughter.
“Ms. Williams and her mom have been working to seek out the mandatory place,” Williams’ lawyer informed the decide. They imagine that she will transfer in by the top of December. A bit of extra time is required to get an appropriate dwelling house for them. They’ve been engaged on it. They won’t want greater than a 30-day extension to get all of those points finalized.”
As an alternative of the requested Jan. 11 date, the decide granted her a brand new date, Jan. 3. However on that day, the superstar convict failed to indicate up on the Alderson Federal Jail Camp in West Virginia to outset the jail check-in course of. Hours earlier than she was presupposed to examine in, Williams filed a movement for the decide to scale back her four-year sentence (48 months) to 32 months (2.6 years).
In her reasoning, Williams claimed she didn’t suppose the court docket precisely calculated her sentence nor thought-about different components. She accused the decide of throwing the e-book at her due to her superstar standing.
Prosecutors opposed her request sentence discount request.
“Even when Williams did qualify for a possible discount, the Authorities would oppose reduction as a result of she did not report back to the Bureau of Prisons as directed, and he or she already acquired a greater than beneficiant disposition by means of the dismissal of counts carrying six years of consecutive necessary minimums on the time of the unique sentencing.”
She did apologize for not surrendering on the mandated time, and officers arrested Williams on Jan. 12, and he or she has but to be processed into the West Virginia jail.
