Rapper Cash Out, real name John-Michael Hakeem Gibson, received a life sentence plus 70 years after a guilty verdict for RICO and sex trafficking. The charges involved allegations of Gibson and his family forcing women into sex work. His mother Linda Smith was sentenced to 30 years, while cousin Tyrone Taylor received the same life sentence. Evidence included text messages from multiple phones and financial documents linking the family to the operations. The prosecution stressed the coercive nature of the crimes, stating that it constituted trafficking rather than simple pimping.
"This has been going on for seven years," Fulton County prosecutor Earnelle Winfrey to the Atlanta courtroom on Friday. "This ain't just straight pimping - this is trafficking."
Gibson's mother claimed that she was unaware of the trafficking, but prosecutors cited payment receipts linking her to the offenses. This included a leased residence where some of the victims were said to be housed.
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