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Prodigy's Jail Sentence Postponed Due to Illness
 Prodigy of rap group Mobb Deep has received a break when a judge postponed his sentencing to give doctors time to
gather medical records documenting his sickle cell anemia in a Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday, January 8. Prodigy, whose real name is Albert Johnson, 33, was supposed to begin a 3-1/2-year sentence today, January 9, in state prison for carrying a loaded, unregistered .22-caliber gun in his $150,000 bulletproof SUV in 2006. But Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin decided the rapper's doctors should get five weeks to produce records documenting his life-long illness. McLaughlin agreed to talk to state correction officials about assigning the Mobb Deep star to a prison with easy access to medical personnel. Johnson's lawyer, Irving Cohen, said his client has been in and out of hospitals his entire life with sickle cell disease, a genetic, incurable blood disorder that can lead to organ damage, stroke and other problems.
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