21 Savage's Bid for Utah House Arrest Attacked Over $600k Payment
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Chart-topping rapper 21 Savage is asking a federal judge to spring him from jail while he awaits trial on racketeering charges — but prosecutors are attacking his intricate pitch to live near a “mentor” in Utah under house arrest with private guards.
The Georgia-bred hip hop prodigy who’s spent the last four months in custody appeared in a federal courtroom in Atlanta on Monday and Tuesday as his lawyers pleaded for his release on bond with plenty of strings attached. They said their client would submit to house arrest at his residence in Layton, Utah, and pay a private security firm staffed with ex-military to enforce his home detention. They also brought in a woman named Leah Omari who testified that she met Savage while working at an Atlanta school and struck up a mentoring relationship with him. Omari told the court that if it granted Savage release to house arrest in Utah, she would assist in keeping an eye on him. In a new motion obtained by Rolling Stone, prosecutors take direct aim at Omari’s testimony, saying they were blindsided by her appearance as a defense witness Monday and believe she left out a “significant detail” about her alleged conflict of interest in the case.
In their 4-page filing, federal prosecutors claim Savage, whose legal name is Shéyaa Abraham-Joseph, paid Omari nearly $600,000 between October 15th and November 12th back in 2022 for “celebrity assistant” services. They argue the large sum of money “calls into question her suitability to serve as a quasi-custodian” for Savage because challenging him “would risk her and her family losing a substantial financial pipeline.” They posed a similar conflict-of-interest argument related to Savage’s proposed security firm Bedrock, saying the company stood to earn $21,000 a week for its services. And they urged the court to discount the sympathetic testimony from Atlantic Records Chairwoman Sylvia Rhone on Monday, saying her company “has more than a $2 million investment” in Savage and intends to build him a home studio.
The court had not ruled on the bond issue as of late Tuesday.
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