The Feds Have Offered The Reality Star A Plea Agreement
Love And Hip Hop New York star Mendeecees Harris is considering a plea deal in his federal drug trafficking case, Bossip has learned.
In a hearing Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Sherman said he gave Harris’ lawyer, Donald Thompson, a plea agreement, but Thompson said he and Harris hadn’t yet had a chance to review it. The terms of the plea deal were not released.
Harris, who announced this week that he and his family will film a spinoff show, was present at the status conference hearing in U.S. District Court in Rochester, NY. Harris spoke only to confirm his name.
It’s not clear if a plea deal would affect filming Love And Hip Hop New York, whose season finale aired March 31st. A spokesman for Love and Hip Hop would only say that season five filming has wrapped, and the reunion shows will air April 6 and 13 on VH1.
The government alleges that Harris, his brother and another man ran a coke and heroin ring in upstate New York from 2005 to 2012.
Yandi Smith posted Harris’ $100,000 bail a year ago, and he has spent his time filming Love and Hip Hop New York, doing various club appearances and working with criminal advocacy group the NYC Justice League.
Smith and Harris also welcomed a daughter, Skylar, earlier this year.
Neither have made a peep on social media about Thursday’s hearing in U.S. District Court. Around the time the court hearing began, Smith tweeted that Harris was “working” and she was hitting the gym with their two kids.