Music producer gets sentence reduced after awkwardly name-dropping Bill Clinton
A music producer who once worked with Whitney Houston and Kenny G name-dropped Bill Clinton at a court hearing Thursday in an awkward bid to get his jail sentence reduced.
Charles Huggins, who is serving a 10-year sentence for running a multimillion- dollar Ponzi scheme, told a Manhattan federal judge in a bizarre rant that he “saved a lot of lives on behalf of Bill Clinton” when he met with Sierra Leone rebels during a civil war in 1999.
Judge Sidney Stein ripped the Clinton reference as “out of left field,” but still reduced his sentence by roughly two years, citing Huggins’ advanced age of 71.
It’s unclear what, if any, connection Huggins actually had to Clinton.
Prosecutors have said that Huggins falsely guaranteed investors they would profit from oil or diamonds mined in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Huggins was granted the rare resentencing after arguing that the original sentencing guidelines had been inflated.