Dawud Sami pleaded guilty on last week to promoting prostitution, a fourth-degree felony. The plea deal saw Cuyahoga County prosecutors drop a first-degree felony human trafficking charge that carried a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Dawud Sami, center, was sentenced to eight months in prison on Monday after he pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution. Sami, 34, who performs hip hop under the name Original GP, was initially charged with human trafficking and faced a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison if convicted of that charge.CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A local entrepreneur who once boasted in hip-hop music videos about running a lucrative sex ring was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison on a felony prostitution charge.
Sami will get credit for three months he spent in jail after his arrest, meaning he’ll have to serve only five months in prison. Paolucci said some of the women learned when they got to Cleveland that they were expected to advertise themselves as prostitutes. Sami expected them to earn at least $1 million per year for him. She also said many of the women were battling drug addictions and that “people associated with” Sami would often feed their drug habits.
He submitted screenshot photographs from other music videos that showed that more men than women got tattoos of the Red Karpet logo. He argued that people who worked for Sami voluntarily got the tattoos as a point of pride. He said the state had no evidence that the women were forced to get the tattoo as a brand that made them Sami’s property.
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