FBI casts doubts on Akon's criminal past
The clangoring of a poky door slamming shut is a signature audio in Akon's chart-topping music and, unremarkably, it's followed by the Senegalese singer uttering the word "convict", signifying the terzetto long time he plainly spent in a Georgian prison house for charges relating to a railway car thievery ring. It's a nifty fast one, reminding people of his malefactor credential to boost a hardman look-alike, and if record gross revenue ar anything to pass judgment by, it has worked.
The only problem, according to a lengthy report on The Smoke Gun web site, is that his criminal past times seems to have been fabricated.According to the investigative website, Akon, real name Aliaune Thiam, did not run a "notorious motorcar thievery ring", as he has claimed numerous times in interviews, and nor did he serve poky time for the crimes that purportedly inspired his 2004 debut record album Trouble.The site, which regularly posts public documents relating to everything from unreported crimes to outrageous band riders, is quest to debunk what it claims are the numerous "exaggerated, embellished or completely fabricated" stories which Akon has perpetuated throughout his four-year life history.Top dog among these "whole fabricated" tales is that Akon, whose breakthrough single Locked Up was manifestly penned piece he was in prison, has never served an actual jailhouse conviction. "Spell the performer's whack weather sheet does include a half-dozen arrests, Akon has only when been convicted of ace felony, for grease-gun possession," the article states. "That 1998 New Island of Jersey case ended with a guilty plea, for which the singer was sentenced to triplet old age probation."The article goes on to say that the singer spent about clip in DeKalb county jailhouse in GA patch awaiting prosecution for possession of a unity stolen BMW, only that altogether charges were dropped subsequently "several months".Among the other dubious areas of Akon's living, the "exaggerated" ones peradventure, is the singer's years. A Peal Endocarp article reported that he was max Born in 1981, fashioning him 27 years old, however the Smoke Accelerator puts his age at either 35 or 36.The issue of whether Akon has multiple wives is besides single of his alleged "embellishments". The isaac Bashevis Singer has regularly skirted round the publication of whether he in truth does receive threesome wives, as is unremarkably reported, or not. However he latterly told Liquidiser magazine that the news report was just him "playing with the media".Holocene reports that Akon's daddy is a blackbelt in karate and will come round your house and do you in with roundhouse kicks if you say anything around his word have likewise non been substantiated.*It is with his outlaw chronicle that the Smoking Gun is most concerned. The internet site has gone to considerable lengths to prove that Akon was ne'er the einstein slow a "notorious car larceny operation", including interviewing Federal Bureau of Investigation factor Prick McFarlane, world Health Organization has worked on auto criminal offense cases in Capital of Georgia since 1972."Ah, this is bull. This guy rope is so phony. He's an arrogant Sobbing," McFarlane reportedly told the land site when questions about the singer's car-ring legacy were put to him. "I don't recollect he had any use as well (wanting) to drive a high-dollar vehicle. And I say this because we didn't link him to any other cars."Akon has yet to respond to the website's reputation, which was published yesterday. The Smoke Gun says numerous calls placed to Akon's management and record label, Atlantic, were non returned. Calls made by the Protector to the singer's European label Universal were non like a shot returned.Click here to read the Smoke Grease-gun article.* In retention with the heart of things, we made this bite up.
Todd Snider
