A former driver of Tekashi 6ix9ine who was connected to the Brooklyn rapper’s racketeering case, has received to years of federal probation and will avoid additional jail time.
Jorge Rivera, who drove for 6ix9ine, was named in the same 2018 racketeering case that prompted 6ix9ine as well as 10 other Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods such as 6ix9ine’s former manager Shotti to receive jail time. According to VladTV, federal prosecutors revealed that Rivera had been cooperating with the FBI for over a year before any arrests were formally made. After he faced deportation and was arrested by ICE, Rivera agreed to cooperate with government authorities even further.
In court records, prosecutors declared that Rivera deserved leniency as his corporation led to evidence in several incidents involving the Nine Trey Bloods, ranging from robberies to shootings. When 6ix9ine was kidnapped by Anthony “Herv” Ellison, it was Rivera who alerted authorities.
“Rivera’s testimony was crucial at trial because it corroborated the testimony of Hernandez and convincingly belied Ellison’s defense that the robbery and kidnapping were staged,” prosecutors wrote.
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6ix9ine himself has kept a relative low profile since the release of his Tattle Tales album in September. After the album sold well below expectations, he went into hiding, only surfacing to reportedly settle a lawsuit with a blind fan who couldn’t access his website and allegedly overdosing on diet pills and caffeine.
