Rosemond Gets Life Sentence

A hip-hop promoter has been sentenced to life in prison in a New York City drug-trafficking case.

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DEA agents escort after his arrest on cocaine-dealing charges in New York.

James Rosemond received the sentence on Friday in federal court in Brooklyn.

A jury found Rosemond guilty at a trial last year where prosecutors accused him of running a lucrative drug ring. They said the ring smuggled cocaine in music equipment cases slathered with mustard to throw off drug-sniffing dogs.

Lawyers for the 48-year-old Rosemond had claimed he was framed by shady cooperators. He still faces separate charges in Manhattan alleging he arranged a murder as payback for an assault on his son.

Rosemond was behind such hits as Salt-N-Pepa’s “Shoop” and also represented The Game and Sean Kingston, according his company’s website.