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Rapper Ja Rule leaves federal lockup in upstate NY after time for tax conviction

FILE - This March 22, 2011 file photo shows rapper Ja Rule inside a vehicle outside Martin Luther King, Jr. Courthouse after pleading guilty to federal tax evasion charges in Newark, N.J. The Federal Bureau of Prisons says Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, left a correctional facility in New York’s Adirondacks on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, though time remains on his sentence. Ja Rule had served most of a two-year sentence for illegal gun possession in a New York state prison before his release in February and subsequent transfer into federal custody in the tax evasion case. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)

ALBANY, N.Y. - Federal authorities say platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule has left federal prison.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons says he left a correctional facility in New York's Adirondacks on Tuesday, though time remains on his sentence.

The bureau says the release date for the 36-year-old rapper, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, technically remains July 28, with possible community-based supervision for the balance.

TMZ reports his wife picked him up and he'll remain in home confinement until then.

Ja Rule had served most of a two-year sentence for illegal gun possession in a New York state prison before his release in February and subsequent transfer into federal custody in the tax evasion case.

He admitted failing to pay taxes on more than $3 million earned between 2004 and 2006.

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