Hip hop manager suspected of hiring robber to shoot Tupac outside studio in 1994 is sentenced to life in prison for drug dealing
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'Jimmy
the Henchman' used record label as front for drug running
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Czar
Entertainment manager trafficked $11m of cocaine a year hidden inside recording
equipment
Hip hop manager James Rosemond, who was suspected of hiring a robber to shoot rapper Tupac outside a New York recording studio in 1994, was jailed for life on Friday on drug dealing charges.
Rosemond,
known also as Jimmy the Henchman, was found guilty of using his record label as
a front for an $11 million a year cocaine trafficking ring in the U.S.
The
48-year-old, who has worked with stars including Jay-Z and Sean Combs, will now
face charges in a separate trial that alleges he ordered a murder as payback
for an assault on his son.
Convicted:
James Rosemond, pictured in his 2011 arrest in New York, has been sentenced to
life in prison for drug trafficking
Rosemond
was found guilty by a Brooklyn court last year of using his record label as a
front for the coastal cocaine ring, the New
York Post reported.
'This
was astonishing in its breadth and duration and intensity. You chose that life
and this is the punishment you get,' Judge John Gleeson said.
The
prosecution also condemned Rosemond, who owns Czar Entertainment, for funding
his lavish lifestyle by supplying drugs to his community in Queens and Brooklyn.
The record label manager, who managed some of the biggest names in
rap, trafficked millions of dollars worth of cocaine, hidden in music
equipment, from California to New York.
His
music business and drug dealing paid for a luxury lifestyle, with penthouses in
Brooklyn and Los Angeles that he had to forfeit after his arrest.
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Rosemond allegedly confessed to being involved in the 1994 New York shooting of
Tupac that left the rapper seriously injured
Attorney
Loretta Lynch called him a 'thug in a suit,' according to the New
York Daily News, telling the court: 'Today's life sentence is a fitting end to
the "Henchman's two-faced machinations".'
Despite
his celebrity links, only a few people wrote letters of support for Rosemond
before his sentencing. None of them were his former rap star friends.
As
well as the drug-running sentence, Rosemond must also stand trial over
'murder-for-hire charges that allege he ordered a 'kill' on an associate of 50
Cent who was said to have slapped the record label manager's son.
Rosemond
had also long been a suspect in the 1994 shooting of Tupac, who was robbed and
shot five times outside a Manhattan recording studio.
Celebrity
status: Sean P Diddy Combs and Jimmy the Henchman in 2006
Luxury
life: Rosemond with Jim Jones at a party in New York in 2006
The
attack sparked a feud between rival gangs that resulted in the 1996 murder of
Tupac in Las Vegas and 1997 killing of Notorious B.I.G in Los Angeles in 1997.
Convicted
killer Dexter Isaac later alleged that Rosemond had paid him $2,500 in cash and
jewellery to rob Tupac outside the Quad Studio.
Rosemond
has denied any involvement in the attack, which his lawyer described as a 'flat
out lie' to the Daily
News.
No
one will stand trial over the 1994 robbery because its New York's statute of
limitations has expired.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Malachi 3:5
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you
to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,
and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his
wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his
right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 5:26
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are
found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth
snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
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