Brittish Williams from Basketball Wives just hit a wall in her fight to overturn that four-year prison sentence she’s facing, claiming she didn’t get a fair chance from the judge, according to an exclusive report from In Touch Weekly.
Court docs obtained by the news outlet shows that the United States Court of Appeals shot down Brittish’s request to have her sentenced reconsidered. The official order reportedly stated, “The district court did not abuse its discretion” when considering Brittish’s “celebrity” during sentencing. In her appeal documents, Brittish made her case for why her prison sentence should get a second look. Back in May 2023, she struck a plea deal with the prosecutors as part of the federal charges against her.
As we previously reported, the government hit Brittish with some serious allegations, including tax, bank, and wire fraud. When it came time for her sentencing in October 2023, the judge laid down the law, giving her a four-year prison sentence along with five years of supervised release. On top of that, the court ordered her to cough up $565,000 in restitution.
At the hearing, the judge reportedly told Brittish, “You knew what you were doing. You knew it was wrong and you did it anyway.”
“The defendant launched a scheme that led to a variety of financial crimes including tax fraud, bank fraud, COVID loan fraud and identity theft,” said one agent who worked on the case. “Ms. Williams displayed a blatant disregard for the victims of her deceit. Financial crimes of this magnitude deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law.”
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Brittish was directed to serve her time at Alderson FPC, a prison located in West Virginia.
Without wasting any time, she jumped right into filing an appeal against her sentence with her lawyer arguing, “Brittish Williams appeals her 48-month sentence imposed following a guilty plea. The district court calculated a higher Guidelines range than that explicitly agreed to by the parties, and failed to acknowledge Ms. Williams’s arguments that the negotiated range in the plea agreement should be given some consideration as it was explicitly a basis for the entry of the plea.”
Her lawyer also argued that Brittish faced unfair treatment because of her celebrity status.
“The district court also improperly sentenced Ms. Williams based on her status as a reality tv celebrity, finding that she was more worthy of punishment because she failed to live up to the court’s ideal of a role model that it believed should be fulfilled by all public figures. This resulted in a sentencing process that Ms. Williams now contends was unreasonable and she asks that her sentence thus be vacated.”
