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A Florida man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for hiring one of his friends as a hitman to kill his pregnant wife in order to collect on her life insurance policy during the summer of 2017.

Euri Jenkins, 35, was convicted by Palm Beach County jurors of murder in the first degree over the murder-for-hire plot that took the life of 33-year-old Makeva Jenkins. 

“This has been a long struggle for me & what has happened to my daughter has affected my life & the life of my family,” the victims’ grandmother, Glora Harold, told the court before addressing the killer and the outcome of the proceedings. “I have nothing bad to say about him. All I wanted was justice for my child. Nobody wins in the case.”

On June 29, 2017, gunman Joevan Joseph, 24, broke into the couple’s Lantana, Fla. home. Wearing a mask, he shot the mother of 3 in the head while she slept. Joseph was 1 of 3 men arrested in connection with the doubly deficient scheme to reward murder.

The violence would all be for naught. The 3 men were, of course, unsuccessful in covering up their crime after the fact. Euri Jenkins would only later learn, in the weeks after his wife’s murder, that he was not listed as a beneficiary on her $500,000 life insurance policy.

The third man, Dametri Dale, 23, began the state’s case against the defendant by testifying that he arranged the meeting between the since-convicted husband and the man who carried out the plot. Dale previously agreed to a plea deal on charges of murder in the second degree as a cooperating witness. He received 15 years probation for his efforts after turning himself in last month.

Joseph’s sentencing hearing was postponed until after his testimony in Euri Jenkins’ murder trial. The shooter faces a minimum or 5 & a maximum of 20 years behind bars. He also previously pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree for his role in the killing.

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A Texas woman was arrested after a bizarre encounter inside a Walmart store where she is accused of offering another shopper $500,000 to buy the woman’s baby.

Rebecca Taylor, 49, was charged with sale or purchase of a child & was released from the Houston County Sheriff’s Office on a $50,000 bond.

The alleged incident occurred at a store in Crockett, Texas, which is near Houston. The two women were reportedly on the self-checkout line last week. The mother — who was with her baby and 1-year-old — told police that the woman commented on her son’s blond hair & blue eyes & asked how much he costs.

The report said the mother laughed off the comment, but the woman allegedly said she had $250,000 in her car. The mom claimed another woman was with Taylor at one point. The mother said she alerted authorities.

The mother waited for the 2 women to leave the store, but they allegedly waited in the parking lot & screamed at her that the offer was now $500,000. The women eventually left.

Police said in the affidavit they watched video from the scene & it appeared to match the mother’s claim.

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(CNN) Low-income families of color in Oakland, California, could receive some extra financial assistance over the next year and a half.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced this week that the city will launch a guaranteed income project to give hundreds of Black and Indigenous families and people of color $500 per month for 18 months.
The project's payments will be unconditional, and recipients may spend the money however they choose.

The Oakland Resilient Families program is the latest trial of a "guaranteed income" system of wealth distribution, where residents are given a set amount of money per month to supplement the existing social safety net.

The project targets groups with the city's greatest wealth disparities, per the Oakland Equality Index, which reveals the median income for White households in Oakland to be nearly three times that of Black households.

"The poverty we all witness today is not a personal failure, it is a systems failure," Schaaf said in a statement. "Guaranteed income is one of the most promising tools for systems change, racial equity and economic mobility we've seen in decades."

Guaranteed income is different from Universal Basic Income (UBI), which would provide enough income to meet everyone's basic needs.

Instead, guaranteed income is only meant to supplement other wages and programs for low-income residents, helping to build the "income floor" on which people in poverty can begin to build financially secure lives.

Although the idea has seen a resurgence in recent years, it's not new -- Martin Luther King, Jr. advocated for it in his 1967 book, "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?"

"I'm now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income," King wrote.

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Mystikal joined VladTV for the first time to detail his life and storied rap career. He started by describing his upbringing in New Orleans during the 1970s and 1980s. Despite his father passing away from a blood clot when he was seven-years-old, as well as the passing of his sister, Mystikal described himself as a good, sheltered kid.

After completing high school, Mystikal joined the military without knowing the country would soon be involved in the Gulf War. After serving his country and being discharged, he returned to New Orleans where he started pursuing his rap career. After being discovered during an opening performance for Run-DMC, Doug E Fresh, and Spice 1, Mystikal quit multiple jobs after being handed $500 to start recording.

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Chief Keef has a deep financial hole to dig himself out of.

The 23-year old rapper, born Keith Cozart, reportedly owes nearly $500,000 in back child support to his baby's mother, Erica Early.

According to AllHipHop, the child was born in 2013. Keef initially agreed to pay the 43-year old woman $2,500 a month, but never coughed up a dime. At one point Early tried to have him arrested.

Early eventually won a judgement ordering Keef to pay over $10,000 in support for their daughter.

He's now being dragged into court later this month because Early claims Keef now owes her $471,910, plus interest.

The "I Don't Like" hit maker has nine children with nine different women.

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George Jung, famously known as "Boston George," spoke exclusively to VladTV about growing his pot empire, which was portrayed in the 2001 Johnny Depp movie, "Blow." 

George started out by telling us how he made "hundreds of thousands" of dollars out of college after figuring out that buying pot at L.A. prices and selling it at a higher price in his home state of Massachusetts could net him a hefty profit. From there, Jung branched out to Mexico to get his supply after promising that he could get the weed out of the country in a plane, despite not knowing how to fly. He explained that he successfully pulled off stealing a plane the first time around, but he decided to step things up by getting an actual pilot to move the pot into the U.S., which continued on for some time.

During the conversation George also spoke about making the equivalent to $500,000,000 in today's money at the height of his career selling weed, which you can hear more about in the clip below.

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Lauryn Hill paid $500,000 towards her debt to the IRS just ahead of her tax evasion hearing. The singer is due to appear in federal court in Newark on Monday afternoon to be sentenced for failing to pay taxes on $1.8 million she earned from 2005 to 2007.

Her attorney, Nathan Hochman, said Monday that Hill has paid $970,000 total to satisfy her state and federal liabilities.

The Grammy Award-winner still faces up to one year in prison on each of the three counts she's been charged with according to Time.

**UPDATE**

Lauryn Hill was just sentenced to three months in prison for tax evasion. She will also have to spend three additional months on home confinement according to the Associated Press.

The 37-year old singer pleaded guilty in the case last year. She told the judge that she had intended to pay her taxes, but couldn't during the period of time she dropped out of the music business.

Hill's attorney had sought probation in the case. At this point it is not clear when or where Hill will report to prison.

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Miami Heat player Chris Bosh was the victim of a major burglary Wednesday night. Thieves slipped into his Miami Beach home and walked away with $479,000 worth of cash, jewelry and purses.

-- 12 watches (worth $300k)
-- 2 rings ($4,000)
-- several purses ($155,000)
-- $20,000 in cash 

View police report here.

According to TMZ, Bosh's kids, another teenager and two babysitters were in the home at the time of the burglary, but none of them heard a thing.

Police say the thieves took their time and handpicked all of the items they wanted. Bosh's championship ring was spared.

The player and his wife, Adrienne, were out celebrating his 29th birthday at the time of the break in. When they got home they realized their closet had been ransacked. Bosh contacted his security director and his assistant. Police were called at 12:30 a.m.

There were no signs of forced entry, however two doors were unlocked.

"We are leaning on the side of this being an inside job," Miami Beach Police spokesman Bobby Hernandez told NBC Miami.

Police are interviewing the babysitters and checking to see if any contractors had been to the home recently.


The home is equipped with surveillance cameras and an alarm. The alarm wasn't activated because the babysitters were there. Authorities are reviewing tape from the cameras looking for leads

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In what turned out to be one of the largest hauls of crystal meth and the biggest heroin bust in Australian history authorities smashed a Hong Kong-linked international drugs syndicate.

The bust was the culmination of a year-long operation following a tip-off from US authorities according to the Daily Mail.

"This was an 11 month investigation where we've had tight control over a number of people who we suspected of being involved in illicit narcotic importations," Australian deputy police commissioner Andrew Colvin said. "This has prevented half a billion dollars of drugs reaching Australian streets"

Seven people, four from Hong Kong and three from Australia, were detained. They ranged in age from between 29 and 61-years-old.

The drugs were hidden inside terracotta pots from Thailand.

Hiding place: A shipment of 3,200 terracotta pots from Thailand was used to conceal the drugs but the discovery has destroyed a Hong Kong-linked international drugs syndicate.

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Robin Thicke and Paula Patton are in deep trouble with Uncle Sam. The couple owe $492,583.49 in unpaid taxes according to TMZ.

It seems they forgot to file their income taxes for 2009 and 2010 resulting in a lien being issued on their property.

A rep for Thicke and his actress wife told TMZ they are working on paying off the debt.

"They've already paid more than half of this and they're working with the IRS to pay the rest," said the rep.

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A couple of weeks ago police in the Chicago suburb of Rolling Hills were praising Robert J. Adams as a hero for turning in $17,021 in cash he found.

Yesterday, Adams was cited for filing a false report with the Rolling Meadows Police Department and fined $500 after police discovered he lied about where he had found the money.

On June 6 Adams discovered the bag of money outside of a Walgreens in Midlothian. He tried turning it into a nearby bank, but they said it didn't belong to them according to the Daily Mail.

Adams then took the money to another bank near his home in Rolling Hills and turned it in. He told police he found the cash outside of a newspaper stand there.

After an investigation by police and the FBI, the real story was revealed and Adams was subsequently cited and fined.

"I know now a little better than I knew then," he told the Chicago Tribune. "I feel very badly and understand why I should have told the truth. I wasn't looking for a reward. I was just doing the right thing. I accept the fine. I'm very sorry about this whole thing."

And police wonder why more people don't do what Adams did initially... smh.