Author Topic: Puff Daddy - Huge Legal Troubles - Article (Read 144 times)

Trauma-san · « **on:** June 28, 2001, 11:00:12 AM »

Hey Yall, Here's An Article I Jacked From NME.Com... whoop's, Looks Like Puffy's In Just As Deep As Suge. Do Yall Think These 2 (Puff And Suge) Are As Bad As People Suspect, Or You Think It's Just A Case Of Playa Hatin? Everybody Reply And Let Me Know What You Honestly Think Of The Allegations About Suge And Puffy:

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Just weeks after being acquitted in a high profile nightclub shooting trial, the rap impresario SEAN 'PUFFY' COMBS is tied up in two separate murder investigations and faces allegations of gun running and Income Tax fraud, according to a NEW YORK magazine.

Police in Atlanta and Los Angeles, it is alleged, believe the Bad Boy Records chief is withholding information relating to two high-profile murders.

An article in the August edition of Talk says murder detectives in Los Angeles suspect Combs knows something about the 1997 slaying of Biggie Smalls that could lead to a break in the case. However, police have been reluctant to confirm the report. "We get a lot of questions about the case, but we wouldn't comment on who we've talked to or who we haven't talked to," Sgt. John Pasquariello told the New York Daily News (June 27).

A more serious charge comes from Atlanta. The magazine quotes an anonymous source claiming Combs and his bodyguard Anthony 'Wolf' Jones (himself acquitted in March in the Club New York nightclub shooting trial) are been looked at in connection with the murder of Jal Hassan-Jamal Robles - a 24-year-old Death Row Records employee gunned downed outside an Atlanta hiphop club in 1995.

It says Combs was present at the murder and that an eyewitness has identified Jones as the murderer.

Jones lawyer Michael Bacher has said his client had nothing to do with the incident.

Combs lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, was more emphatic, insisting the allegations were "entirely baseless and without any merit." He added that he was "not aware of any criminal investigation in which he [Combs] is a target."

In Las Vegas, police are looking into whether Combs and another of his bodyguards, Paul Offord, were running guns.

The magazine says Combs and Offord might have developed a nationwide network to supply the superstar and his entourage with guns when they travel. Las Vegas police refused to comment.

The alleged tax fraud is by comparison rather tame. The IRS (the US' federal tax bureau) is looking into whether or not Puffy has declared all his income and whether he was using business assets, such as some of his fleet of cars, for personal matters.

Gate Won · « **Reply #1 on:** June 28, 2001, 12:01:57 PM »

Ifd u go bacc 2 the 1995 SUGE interview.....
he talks about that shit....
sayin how PUFFY was there & acted like he had nothing 2 do with it,
but he SEEN him & his bodyguard murder dood

Gate Won · « **Reply #2 on:** June 28, 2001, 12:02:53 PM »

btw...that interview is n the SOURCE with him on the cover

Sikotic™ · « **Reply #3 on:** June 28, 2001, 12:51:24 PM »

One side tell me he is being targeted and people want him locked up for a long ass time, but at the same time I think Puff had done some shady shit when Bad Boy fist started out and he is paying for it now. They are definitely looking and digging for shit on him.

BadBoy4Life · « **Reply #4 on:** June 28, 2001, 11:40:43 PM »

That article was actually in the daily news too. Not shocked by any of the things he's being investigated for except the BIG death. I mean im sure he has told 50 everything he knows by now. It's not like BIG was planning on leaving BADBOY and Puffy had 3-4 albums worth of unreleased material and not like Puff could gain more money by him dieing then if he was alive. All those facts listed above <COUGH COUGH) Suge Knight /Pac?? Word around BADBOY is they still think Suge Knight was involved in both murders , BIG and Pac.

Trauma-san · « **Reply #5 on:** June 29, 2001, 08:11:00 AM »

To Be Fair, Here's Puff's Side... I Dunno What To Believe.

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Rap mogul Sean Combs yesterday (June 28) denied a report in Talk magazine that alleges he's the subject of three criminal investigations. "For the record, it's not true, none of it is. All of it absolutely not true, 100 percent," Combs told the Associated Press in an interview, adding: "This has to stop, fact-check all your stuff and don't throw things out there that you know would possibly have speculations or affect a person."

"We stand by the facts of the story," Talk publicist Lisa Dallos said.

Combs, 31, was acquitted in March of weapons and bribery charges stemming from a 1999 shooting in a New York nightclub. However, Talk magazine reports in its August issue that his legal woes are far from over.

It said the Internal Revenue Service office in New York was investigating Combs for possible tax violations, Las Vegas police were looking into an allegation of gun possession, and Atlanta authorities were probing Combs and a bodyguard in connection with the slaying of a gang member who had been hired to protect Marion "Suge" Knight.

A nemesis of Combs' and head of Death Row Records, Knight has been imprisoned since 1997 for violating parole on assault charges and is due to be released in August.

In addition, Talk said Los Angeles authorities believe Combs may have information that could lead them to the killer of his friend Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls or the Notorious B.I.G. The rapper was killed in Los Angeles in 1997. The magazine cited unnamed sources.

Las Vegas police spokesman Christopher Darcy said he knew of no investigation into Combs, while Los Angeles police spokesman John Pasquariello said police interviewed Combs about two years ago, "early in the investigation" of the unsolved Wallace killing, and have no plans to do so again. "We've talked to him. He gave us information," Pasquariello said.

Phone calls to the Atlanta authorities and the IRS went unreturned. Combs said he called the IRS himself to see if he was being investigated. "They're telling me, 'No, I ain't got no investigation on you.' So I'm like, how can somebody do something like this? It's just so silly and stupid, it's not even worth an in-depth comment on it."

Combs, CEO and founder of Bad Boy Entertainment, said the article "is definitely hurtful and it's upsetting, and it's, like, disgusting." The rap mogul, who also has his own clothing line, said Talk ran the piece to boost its sales.