Rapper DMX ordered confined to home on tax fraud charges
NEW YORK — Rapper DMX was ordered confined to his suburban New York City home Friday by a judge who said he repeatedly violated bail conditions on tax fraud charges.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff also said the rapper must wear an electronic bracelet and ask his permission at least a week in advance if he wants to travel.
“A very strong argument could be made for keeping him in jail,” Rakoff said, but he added that judicial authorities are sometimes too quick in the United States to incarcerate people before trial.
The judge described several times DMX has been convicted of drug or gun possession crimes since 2002 but said he has largely avoided jail time and maybe only learned that “he’s free to thumb his nose at the court” and Pretrial Services officers because he knows that his lawyer, Murray Richman, will always get him out of trouble.