So the now infamous LA Times Article from last week may (what a shocker!) have some holes in it. Check out the MTV article and check out how Miss Info breaks it down.
According to the report, the allegations that the shooting was carried out by associates of Combs’, and that he knew of the plot beforehand, were largely based on faked FBI reports cooked up by “an audacious swindler who has created a fantasy world in which he managed hip-hop luminaries, conducted business with Combs, Shakur, Busta Rhymes and the Notorious B.I.G., and even served as Combs’ trusted emissary to Death Row Records boss Marion ‘Suge’ Knight during the outset of hostilities in the bloody East Coast-West Coast rap feud.”
The man in question, according to the site, is James Sabatino, 31, who it claims has sought for years to wedge himself, after the fact, into a string of important hip-hop events, including Shakur’s shooting and the murder of the Notorious B.I.G., though little evidence exists that he ever met or had contact with either man. Sabatino is described by the site as a “wildly impulsive, overweight white kid from Florida” who was little more than a rap fan and whose father once described him in a letter to a federal judge as “a disturbed young man who needed attention like a drug.”
