Rapper Kodak Black’s lawyer on Tuesday slammed the Justice Department for allowing Hunter Biden to plead guilty to federal tax and firearms charges in a deal that’s expected to carry no prison time and leave the first son’s record free of felony convictions.
Bradford Cohen, Black’s Florida-based attorney, decried Hunter’s apparent slap on the wrist, alluding to “2 tiers of justice” which he claims led his client to be sentenced to 46 months in prison for the same crime that President Biden’s son has been charged with.
“2 tiers of justice? Kodak was charged for the same crime. Got over 3 years. Mr. Biden will not serve a day. Feels right? Do FBI agents and federal authorities take cases personally?” Cohen wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday.
Black, a two-time Grammy Award nominee, pleaded guilty in 2019 to providing an incorrect Social Security number on a federal gun purchase form in order to buy three firearms from a Miami-area shop.
Despite his plea, Black, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was sentenced to more than 3 years in federal prison.
Cohen explained in a Twitter post that in his decades working in the criminal justice system, he has yet to have a client avoid prison time after pleading guilty to illegal possession of a weapon and tax evasion charges.
“After 26 years, I have yet to have a plea in a case with an illegal possession of a weapon and tax evasion, that did not come with some kind of prison sentence. Indigents charged the same way would be getting jail time,” Cohen said.
Black was pardoned by former President Donald Trump on his final day in office.
The rapper was among the 73 individuals pardoned by Trump on Jan. 20, 2021. Another 70 people had their sentences commuted by the outgoing president.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/rapper-kodak-blacks-lawyer-decries-2-tiers-of-justice-after-hunter-biden-plea-deal/