Jay Z Pleads With A Judge To Release His Former Cocaine Trafficer

Jay Z wrote a letter to Judge Benson Legg in reference to an old friend of his.

According to reports, Jay Z is trying to offer “Emory Jones” a job with Roc Apparel. Jay once reportedly worked as a street-level crack dealer for Emory, court records show. The job title is “Executive Assistant and pays $50,000.

Emory Jones plead guilty to cocaine trafficking charges in 2000 and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Jay Z plead with the Judge to release his childhood friend and street hustler, guaranteing the convict a well paying job and stable environment.

According to thesmokinggun:

Carter’s letter was included as part of a sentence reduction motion filed last August by Jones. The motion was triggered by a Supreme Court decision addressing the inequity in sentences levied in cases involving crack cocaine as opposed to the powdered form of the drug. Legg granted Jones’s motion and shaved 37 months off his sentence, court records show.

In April, when Jones was released from the federal lockup in Otisville, New York, Carter’s Maybach was reportedly waiting for him at the prison gate. Jones spent the next six months in a halfway house before his federal custody formally ended on September 30, according to a BoP spokesperson. Jones’s five-year probation term is scheduled to run until 2015.

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