Overview
- Pooh Shiesty pleaded not guilty to five federal counts of kidnapping and extortion in Dallas federal court.
- His new lawyer, Kent Schaffer, says the team is waiting for a scheduling order and calls the case highly defensible.
- Prosecutors allege he and others lured Gucci Mane to a Dallas recording studio and robbed him at gunpoint.
- They also say Shiesty forced Gucci Mane to sign papers ending a record contract while Big30 blocked a door.
- Co-defendants, including his father and Big30, have also pleaded not guilty and remain jailed after bond revocations, and all could face life in prison if convicted.