Though some artists brush off their legal issues, Fat Joe is acutely aware
of just how serious his are. After pleading guilty to tax evasion in December, the rapper didn’t
dance around the issue when discussing it with MTV’s “RapFix Live.
Ultimately, Joe took responsibility for having to pay the money, but didn’t
accept the blame for not paying the taxes on time. “At the end of the day, I’m
paying all the money back that’s owed — actually I have and I’ma just go like a
man, stand up,” he said, before qualifying, “You gotta understand we hire guys
who are supposed have Harvard degrees to take care of us.”
Joe explained that artists typically hire others to manage their finances,
which is how artists can end up in trouble. “All the time you see artists, the
first thing they did to you when you caught money was introduce you to a bunch
of fancy guys with bow ties who are gonna take care of your money and all that
and then you always see an artist or a celebrity or somebody like that goin’
down for it and these guys never go down for it.”
Joe Crack faces up to two years in prison for failing to pay income taxes
for the years 2007 and 2008, amounting to roughly $700,000.
Souce: Eben Gregory
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