A federal judge in California denied Chicago rapper Lil Durk’s third request for bond. The bond denial means he will stay in jail until his trial in October.
U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald wrote in his 5-page ruling that Durk’s offer of $4.5 million bond was not even a fraction of his net worth.
Judge Fitzgerald said Durk would have to offer his entire net worth – and put his wife, mother, and children in the poor house – in order to get bonded out of jail.
Fitzgerald said with the “entirety of his net worth” at stake, Durk would be less likely to flee the country because it would leave his wife, mother, and children “impoverished.”
Lil Durk is accused of hiring a team of hitmen in Chicago and paying their expenses to Los Angeles to commit an execution-style murder of aspiring rapper Quando Rondo in August 2022.
Federal prosecutors say the hitmen ambushed Rondo and his cousin, Saviay’a Robinson, in broad daylight at a gas station on August 19, 2022.
Police counted at least 18 rounds fired from multiple guns at the gas station. But the hitmen somehow missed Rondo and killed his cousin, Robinson, instead.
On October 23, 2024, feds arrested 5 men in Chicago and charged them with murder. The feds say Durk learned of the arrests and booked three separate flights to the Middle East the next day. Two of the flights were decoys to confuse the federal agents.
Judge Fitzgerald cited those flights in his decision not to grant bond.
The defense team said Durk was on his way to Dubai to pray at a mosque when federal agents arrested him near the airport in Broward County, Florida on Oct. 24, 2024.
Durk, 32, was transferred to a jail in California, where he is being held without bond.
