Lil Durk loses another bail request after $4.5 million cash proposal
Lil Durk has been denied bail once again while facing murder-for-hire charges. The Chicago rapper was arrested in October in connection with the death of Quando Rondo’s cousin, Saviay’a Robinson, and has been detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles since.
US District Judge Michael Fitzgerald issued a new ruling on June 9th, declining Durk’s request despite offering a $4.5 million cash proposal and 24-hour home detention with electronic monitoring and private security.
The judge wrote, “The main problem here is that, based on information in the sealed Pretrial Service Reports, the proffered funds are only a fraction of defendant’s net worth.” He added that, due to Durk facing a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole, the circumstances “would make any innocent defendant consider flight as the rational alternative.”
While accepting Banks has “business and spiritual reasons to travel to the Middle East,” Fitzgerald questioned why Durk bought tickets to fly to Dubai after other defendants were arrested. “The court finds that defendant did attempt to flee abroad,” the judge said.
Fitzgerald previously stated Durk’s new proposal was “going in the right direction” by including an extra $3 million of his own. However, he wants even more of his net worth, claiming that offering this up would make him less likely to flee the country due to leaving his family at risk of having no money.
He was last denied bail in May, with the judge claiming he showed “a disrespect for the rules” by using other inmates’ phone accounts to make more calls than permitted.
Durk has been charged with one count of conspiracy, one count of use of interstate facilities to commit murder-for-hire resulting in death, and one count of using, carrying, and discharging firearms and a machine gun and possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death. His trial is set to begin on October 14th, 2025.