The woman who was allegedly working with Apollo Nida in a fraud scam that brought in roughly $3 million dollars has been sentenced and revealed whether she testified against him.

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Gayla St. Julien, the woman known as Nida's "right hand man" in the scheme, is slated to serve five years in prison. She released a statement to Reality Tea via email in an article published Monday and confirmed that she indeed did not testify against Nida.

"To all the people who hide behind keyboards with negative comments and opinions. To the individuals who know nothing of my life or struggles. Apollo sat in the back of Judge Pannells' court room the look of fear on his face awaiting my fate which will soon be his fate. As of April 23, 2014 was a day of new beginnings for me I took full responsibility for my actions. I DID NOT testify against Apollo."

Phaedra Parks Stands By Apollo Nida?

Still, she did confess that she previously told the secret service about Nida's connection to the fraud scheme to make him pay for his involvement as well. She revealed that while she didn't have an intimate relationship with Nida, she "covered up" the several times he did cheat on his wife, The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks. St. Julien added that the two were best friends and he even turned to her when his mother was battling AIDS. But their relationship took a turn when he "abandoned" her after she was arrested for the fraud charges.

"Apollo made a promise to me that he would support me if the inevitable ever happened. Two weeks prior to the inevitable happening I was made aware of the arrest, I went to him and he abandoned me. With a husband and children I faced this head on I wasn't going to run. On that fateful day I already knew I was on my own."

As for Nida, he has taken the first steps in going for a plea deal. He waived his indictment on April 21, giving prosecutors the chance to immediately move forward with the case. In court documents obtained by Radar Online, prosecutors wrote that Nida "did willfully, unlawfully, combine, conspire, confederate, agree...to commit certain offenses against the United States...to devise and intend to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud financial institutions and other companies and individuals, and to obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses...to knowingly execute, and attempt to execute, a scheme and artifice to defraud financial institutions."

Nida is accused of working with St. Julien in a scam that included stealing victims' identities and using them to set up fake companies, creating phony car dealerships and stealing Delta Airlines' employees social security checks.

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