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Tekashi 6ix9ine pal faces more time for partying during coronavirus outbreak

A former Tekashi 6ix9ine affiliate who was caught partying in his house after his launch from jail due to the coronavirus outbreak could face more time in jail when he’s sentenced in June.

Manhattan federal Choose Paul Engelmayer wrote in an order filed Monday that video reveals the rapper’s former pal Kintea McKenzie, a okay a “Kooda B,” intentionally misled the court docket “by feigning real concern about contracting COVID-19” to get out of jail.

McKenzie — whom Tekashi ratted out over the tried taking pictures of rapper and gang rival Chief Keef in Occasions Sq. in 2018 — had been reduce free from the Metropolitan Correctional Middle final week. McKenzie pleaded to be launched as a result of he has bronchial asthma and is at excessive danger of significant sickness if he contracts coronavirus.

Quickly after his launch, a video of McKenzie partying with a lot of different folks at his Brooklyn house was posted on-line by a recognized gang member, Engelmayer wrote.

“No less than one of many younger males on the get together seems to be smoking a marijuana cigarette and others are ingesting alcohol. The phrase ‘Blood’ is audible, though the context leaves unclear whether or not it was meant as a reference to the gang, the 9 Trey Gangsta Bloods, with which McKenzie related,” Engelmayer wrote.

“With the exception that one attendee wears a masks, the video doesn’t bespeak any mindfulness by any attendee to the truth that a deadly pandemic is sweeping town,” he added.

Engelmayer wrote that he can’t remand McKenzie to the MCC as a result of he could have been uncovered to the virus on the get together and will unfold it within the lockup.

As an alternative, the choose is contemplating rising his jail time period when he’s sentenced in June, in line with the court docket papers.

Final June, McKenize pleaded responsible to assault with a harmful weapon in support of racketeering, which has a most sentence of 20 years in jail.

He was accused of being paid by Tekashi to attempt to shoot Chief Keef at a Manhattan resort to rattle him.

Tekashi, whose actual identify is Daniel Hernandez, was sentenced in December to 2 years behind bars for his position within the scheme. He was launched to residence confinement early final week due to coronavirus fears.

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