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Suge Knight’s Attorney Takes Plea Deal For Allegedly Bribing Witnesses

Suge Knight's Attorney

 Marion “Suge” Knight’s attorney is facing the consequences for his unethical practices.  LA Times says Matthew Fletcher, who is Suge’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty this week on conspiracy and perjury charges after being accused of bribing witnesses in Knight’s murder trial. 

Suge Knight’s attorney faces charges that stem from Suge’s fatal hit-and-run in the parking lot of Tam’s burgers.

In addition to pleading guilty, Fletcher has been permanently disbarred from practicing law in the state of California and he will be on probation for five years. 

In exchange prosecutors agreed to drop charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and accessory after the fact relating to Fletcher’s alleged actions while defending Knight, as well as an unrelated perjury charge that stemmed from testimony he gave at a State Bar hearing while under oath.

READ MORE: The son of Suge Knight, Suge Jacob Knight, reacts to Snoop purchasing the label his father started.

The former Death Row Records co-founder plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2018, after he whipped his Ford F-150 into Terry Carter and Cle “Bone” Sloan in the parking lot of Compton restaurant close to the site where the biopic, Straight Outta Compton was being shot in 2015. Carter died of his injuries.

Suge’s other former attorney, Thaddeus Culpepper, was hit with identical charges, with two additional conspiracy charges. 

Both men have an arraignment set for March 16th and if convicted, they face up to three-years-and-eight months in prison. 

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R. Kelly’s Associate Pleads Guilty To Offering Witness $500K in Hush Money

R. Kelly's Associate Pleads Guilty To Offering Witness $500K in Hush Money

Meanwhile, R. Kelly continues to face sexual criminal charges, one of his friends pleaded guilty to bribery.

According to Page Six, Richard Arline Jr. admitted to offering a witness $500,000 in exchange for their silence.

“Me and another person offered Jane Doe money for her to not go forward with her complaint or testimony against Robert Kelly. I knew what I did was wrong.”

An anonymous co-conspirator texted an accuser in R. Kelly’s racketeering and sex trafficking case in Brooklyn: “Rob is trying to get his cousin rich in contact with you because he wants to pay you for silence.”

Arline told the witness that R. Kelly greenlit the $500K payment, but what he didn’t know was the Feds were listening in on the conversation.

He’s facing up to 15 years.

Arline, R. Kelly’s former manager Donnell Russell, and Michael Wilson allegedly harassed, intimated, or illegally tried to influence other accusers ahead of his upcoming trial.

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