AceShowbiz - Pretty Ricky's Baby Blue is reportedly sentenced to 20 months for his involvement in PPP loan fraud. The R&B singer was previously accused of defrauding the government of $1 million and using Paycheck Protection Program loan money for personal expenses.
According to Baller Alert, Baby Blue took a plea deal and was sentenced to 20 months behind bars. The musician was also allegedly "ordered to pay $1,111345.23 in restitution and $1,134,782 in forfeiture in addition to his term of imprisonment." Additionally, Baby Blue is said to have stated about his sentence that "the judge was fair."
The singer appeared to reflect on the ordeal in a lengthy Instagram post on Wednesday, December 22. "I can't go back and change the beginning but I can start where I am and change the ending. There are things in life we don't want to happen but have to accept; Lessons in life we don't want to know but have to learn."
Baby Blue was arrested in October 2020 in a massive COVID-19 relief loan scam. According to the official press release from the Department of Justice at the time, He was charged for "alleged participation in a scheme to file fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $24 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act."
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