If you have been keeping up with music-related news in the past day or two, you likely saw that Lauryn Hill was charged with three counts of failing to file tax returns for the years 2005-2007. As a result, she faces a maximum of one year in jail and $100,000 in fines for each count.
And before she heads to court on June 29 to deal with the matter, she took to her newly created Tumblr account to respond to the charges. You can read the lengthy and very indepth statement below her tweet, which verifies that it was indeed Ms. Hill behind this.