ATLANTA — Rapper T.I. was sentenced Friday to one year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to federal weapons charges after he tried to buy a stash of machine guns and silencers to protect himself after his best friend was killed.
The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, also will pay a $100,000 fine as part of his sentence. He was arrested in 2007 after trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers.
He pleaded guilty last March but wasn’t sentenced until Friday as part of a deal for him to perform community service by telling youths about the pitfalls of drugs, violence and guns. He had faced a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count.
“Today, I would like to say thank you to some, and apologize to all,” Harris told U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr., who handed down the sentence. The Associated Press
