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\nFormer UFC welterweight champion, Georges “Rush” St-Pierre found himself under fire earlier this year for his very open and public support of international drug king-pin, Jimmy Cournoyer.<\/a>\u00a0(More on that HERE<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Canadian super-star told detractors that he believed everyone was due a second chance, and that he would not turn his back on a friend in need.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the end though, GSP’s letters to the judge<\/a> didn’t help, as the $1billion drug-lord was just sentenced to 27 years in prison.<\/p>\n

The NY Daily<\/a> has more:<\/p>\n

A Canadian marijuana kingpin who admitted he ran a $1 billion smuggling ring was sentenced Wednesday to 27 years in prison by a Brooklyn federal judge.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jimmy Cournoyer\u2019s operation moved more than 200,000 pounds of high-grade pot into the U.S. from Canada with help from the Hells Angels and the Bonanno crime family, prosecutors said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just hours before his sentencing, Cournoyer, 34, was still at it, cooking up a drug deal with an associate, a prosecutor said.<\/em><\/p>\n

If Cournoyer is allowed to serve his sentence in Canada, he could be eligible for parole in seven years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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