After four adjournments, Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, has finally been sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for fraud and money laundering.
Huspuppi was sentenced, on Friday, by the United States Central District Court in California.
Since he was convicted last year for alleged $1.1m fraud, the court has postponed his sentencing at least four times. Hushpuppi was initially scheduled for sentencing on February 14 but it was moved to July 11 and to September 21 before it was postponed to November 3 this year.
Having already spent two years in prison, the internet celebrity is now expected to spend nine more years behind bars in the United States.
Prior to his sentencing, Huspuppi had appealed for leniency from the judge, Justice Otis Wright for good behaviour during his time served in prison.
It would be recalled that the socialite was arrested in Dubai in June 2020 alongside 12 accomplices. He was accused of hacking, impersonation, scamming, banking fraud, and identity theft, and thereafter extradited to the US for prosecution.
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He was also alleged to have engaged in an extensive fraud scheme that robbed his victims of their money in the U.S, Qatar, the United Kingdom, and other countries.
Upon being extradited to the United States, Hushpuppi was charged with fraud and money laundering.
Hushpuppi, 39, then agreed to plead guilty to the multi-million-dollar fraud charges slammed against him by the American government in July 2021.
With the hope of getting a lighter punishment, Hushpuppi then entered into a plea bargain agreement with the US government in July 2021.
