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rap star Notorious B.I.G., aban- 1
doning a controversial theory
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investigating the possibility that VICTIM: Noforiolw B.I.G. was
gunned dawn near; the
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cer and rap mogul Marion
Angeles in1997. '
5 Suge Knight orchestrated the
ofB.I.G.,
killing whose real name
was Christopher Wallace. naed totestify in her wrongful-
FBI o icials conducted are- death lawsuit against thecity.

1 view of the investigation and

shut. itdonm in January
learning that Agent
Philip
son had discussions
with
after
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WaIlace s lawyers that Carson
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Jn, acting
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, saidthis week that Carsons in-
lj-vestigation was closed because
[federal prosecutors reviewed the
fjavidenee he had gathered and
- determined that there was no
basis for prosecution."
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thatthey discussed with Carson
', dealings
his withthe Wallace
,- lawyers. But theysaid thathad Mr-i-so Ynsuxnus For rm Timer.
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nobearing on the decision halt
to
.» the investigation. I snnxrno DAMAGES: Volettu Wdlldce, mother ofche rap star
j._ 'Caprino the said
discussion Notorious B1.
G., hasled alawsuit accusing the
of
LAPD co2>e1-mg
- was part ofa standard adminis- up police involvementher_son in s killing.
revlew conducted when-
ever an agent is subpoenaed to Mack, may have been involved. In February2004, Carson
.testl.t y.saidHe the bureau foundBy then, Mack was in prison for visited Mack at afederal prison
improper conduct onCar- robbing bank. a Hehad been on in Alabama Mack has said Car-
S0npart.s the policeforce atthe timeof son otiered to seeka reduction in
,.- ,Perry Sanders, an attorney Wallace's killing. _ his 14-yearsentence the
for bank
'i or Wallace.
Voletta took issue Detectives learned that Mack robbery he if cooperated in the
with theFBI s explanation for ownedblacka Chevrolet Impala Wallace investigation.
.' thewhy
probe was discontinued. similar toone seenspeeding In acourt ling, Mack said he
ISanders said theLAPD ex- from themurder scene. A wit- rejected the offerin
no uncertain
political
erted on
pressure the ness said he saw Mack outsideterms.
-FBI to layo thecase. He said the automotive museum several fl advised Carson that hc had
he learned this froma reliable hours before the shooting. ' in beeither the most inept or la-
_c9ni ident-ial source whom he Then-Det. Rusell ad-
Poole ziest agent Ihadever met," Mack
Iwouldnot identity. vanced theidea that Mack wrote. was It obvious that he. . .
'- Assistant FBI Director Rich- planned the killing atKnight's _was only regurgitating the alle-
fl ardfl . Garcia, head ofthe Los behest and arranged a forfriend, gations contained in theWallace
gation. Noone atthe FBIwas Wallace. " -This week, FBI officials dis"
asked ordirected tostop any- Other information gathered puted Mack's account, contend-
' thing, Garcia said in aninter- by investigators did notsupport ing thatCarson never offered to
_view. This investigation was re- the theory, however, and detect- seek reduction
a his
in sentence,
viewed diligently by [Carson's]ives turned their attention else- which
they said would have vio-
boss on a regular basis and the where. Knight, Mack andMu- lat/ed FBI policy. '
results were submitted tothy _hammad,Southland a mortgageIn _September, FBI officials
U.S. attorneys olhce. They de- broker, have all denied any role in say. they asked Carson to attend
.tennined that the evidence was the lnlllng. a meetingto discusswhy his
;-insumcient for prosecution. So Since resigning from the name was on aplaintl "s listof
we dropped it." LAPD in1999,
Poole has contin-potential Witnesses.
,~ _. Christopher Wallace, then 24, uedbo promote his theoryin -During the meeting, Ca.rs0n s
Jwas gunned down March 9, 1997,books and through appearances bosses also discussed his con-
..in frontof hundreds fans of afterin documentaries and on TV duct ofthe investigation and ex-
a music industry party at thePe- shows. Voletta Wallace'splored lawsuithisdealings withthe
tersen Automotive Museum in incorporates Pocle's arguments,plaintilfs attorneys, sources
the mid-Wilshire district. and he is listedas anexpertwit- said.
~LAPD detectives have pur- ness for the plaintiffs. FBI officials were concerned
sued various theories their
in
ef- Carson, the FBI agent, began that Carson might have been in-
forts tosolve the crime. One is his investigation after watchinguenced by the Wallace lawyers
that thekilling, like that ormp Poole on a Tj/';specia.l
in thesurn- and thathis contacts with them.
star Tupac Shakur six months rner of2003. court documentscould embarrass the bureau, the
earlier, stemmed trom afeud be- show. _ sources said. '
tween rapgures inNew York Carson contacted Poole and FBI ayntsare perrnlthed to
and Los Angeles. interviewed otherdetectives,contact civil attorneys to see if
Shakur was the brightest star Witnesses and informantsthey have information relevant
~0f Knighvs Death ROW Records around the country at the sug- to a criminal investigation. But
in LosAngeles. Wallace was as- gestion oi Wallace farnily attor- bureau policy bars agents from
somated with Bad Boy Records neys. records show. sharing investigative informa-
ln New York. The IZWO stars and In December Carson
2003, tion With them.
their associates had exchanged and other agents conducted sur- Carson and his FBIsup8I 101'S
insults and threats on stage andveillance ofMuhammad andsaid he shared information
never
in recordings. wired aninformant i.n an at- with Wallace's lawyers.
.,In 1998,
LAPD investigatorstempt to illicit incriminating Times stdwriter GregKri-
began tosuspect thata dis- statements from him. The effort korlan contributed to this re-
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The agency pursues a 6-year-old theory
_that a rogue LAPD officer arranged the murder of Notorious B.l.G. with rap
"mogul Suge Knight.:[H0lVIE EDITION]
Chuck Philips.
Los Angeles
Times. LosAngeles, Calif.:
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Seven years
after thekilling ofrap starNotorious B.l.G.,
the FBlisinvestigatingallegations that
anrogue Los
Angeles police officer orchestrated the slaying with rap mogul Marion "Suge Knight, according to court
documents and law enforcement sources.

The FBI is pursuing a6-year-old theoiy that then-Officer David A. Mack, acting at Knight&#39;s request,
arranged for
Amir Muhammad, Mack&#39;s friendand college roommate,
to ambush the rapper outside the Petersen Automotive
Museum Wilshire
on Boulevard.

Over the years, the LAPD has offered con icting assessments of
the theory, which police at
one point took
seriously. Documents show that LAPD detectives are now focusing on
an alternative theory that centers on a
Houston rap entrepreneur. &#39;

Mack, Knight and Muhammad, aSouthiand mortgage broker, have long denied any involvement in the 1997
killing. -

"l have stated from the outset that I have nothing whatsoever to do with any of this," Muhammad, who also uses
-, thename HarryBillups, saidin atelephone interview Thursday
from hisattorney&#39;s "l&#39;ve
of ce. nothing
done
wrong. l don&#39;t have
anything to
hide."

Knight, founder of Death Row Records, also rejected the allegations.

l don&#39;t
David
know Mack or Amir Muhammad. I&#39;ve never met them," he said by phone from Mule Creek State
Prison, where he is sewing time for a probation violation. "The FBI has never contacted me, but I&#39;m
glad they
looking
are into all of this stuff. I hope they solve it."

Notorious B.l.G.,
whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was gunned down just after midnight March 9,
1997, in front of
hundreds of
people who had just left a music
industry party at the Petersen museum. The
Brooklyn rapper
was sittingin the passenger seatof asport utility vehicieat a red lightwhen alone assassinin a
dark Impala pulled up
in the neighboring lane and opened re.

The killing occurred six months after rap star Tupac

Shakur was fatally wounded in adrive-by attack in Las
Vegas.

has
Noone ever been charged in either killing.

Early on,detectives speculated

that themurders mayhave stemmed from arivalry between EastCoast and
West Coast
rappers. Before theirdeaths, Shakurand Wallacehad beenfeuding, anda rivalrybetween their K
record labels,Los Angeles-based Row
Death and NewYork-based BadBoy Entertainment, had escalatedinto a
series of
assaults and shootings.

Each labelused gangmembers forprotection, andpolice investigated

the possibilitythat bothkillings were
committed by members of
Compton&#39;s
Southside Crips gang.

The theory
now being
investigated the
by FBI
was first
advanced1998
in bythen-LAPD Det.
Russeil Poole.&#39;
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According
Poole,
to Knight
Shakurmed
had thebecause
star
rapabout
was
leaghis
tolabel
- and Knight
then had Wallace murdered to make it appear that both slayings were the result of abicoastai rap feud.
Poole
contends thatKnight may have used corrupt police officers to help carry out both murders.

Mack, onetimepartner of
disgraced former LAPD Of cer Rafael Perez, came under suspicion after he was
arrested in
December 1997 forrobbing a bank. He was later convicted and is sewing a14-year prison term.

Mack owneda black

impala similar to the car used in the Wallace slaying, and a witness reported seeinghim at
the scene. informants told investigators that Mack may have provided security for
Knight. Both men grew up
in
Compton. _ _F

began
Poole scrutinizing Muhammad, who was aclassmate Mack&#39;s
of the
at University of Oregon, after learning
he
that had visited Mack in prison in December 1997. Several months earlier, ajailhouse informant had told
detectivesthat
Wai|ace&#39;skiller was aSouthside Crip who went by a Middle Eastern name, possibly "Amir"or
"Ashmir&#39;
- and
- that his true name might be
Abraham or Kenny or Keeky_

A driver&#39;s
license photoof
Muhammad resembles a police
sketch Wallace&#39;s
of killer based on witness
descriptions. One witness told police
he saw aman who resembled Muhammad outside the Petersen museum
the night of
the shooting. .

Muhammad,in
the phone interview, said the account was unfounded. Anybody who says they saw me there
night
that or thatl had anything to do with this is aliar," he said. -

Poole resignedfrom the LAPD in

1999 after disputes with his superiors about the direction of
various
investigations, including the one into Wallace&#39;s
murder.

Since then,Poole has promoted his theory of

the Wallace slaying in newspaper interviews and books
and
through appearanceson documentaries and TV shows. He has endorsed ascreenplay treatment of it that is
being shopped to Hollywoodstudios. Actor Sylvester Stallone has discussed portraying Poole in amovie.

Poole also
joined forces with Wallace&#39;s mother,
Voletta, who led a wrongful-death suit against the city of
Los
Angeles two years ago. The suit contends the LAPD covered
up involvement
police the rapper&#39;s killing.
in

The case
is scheduled to go
to trial July 27 in
federal court in Los Angeles, with Poole testifying as an
expert
witness
theforplaintiffs.
Lawyers theincase
havedepositions
taken Pooleand other
from police oftied
cers
toj
the Wallaceinvestigation. i rréthose
depositions, which.
have beensealed undercourt order,officers disclose-&#39;
details about
the FBl probe. " &#39; &#39;

The FBI&#39;s
interest in the case was sparked by
a TV special on the Wallace killing aired on the VH1 cable
channel last summer. An FBI-agent who saw the show later contacted attomeys for the Wallace family, who
alleged thatwitnesses wereafraid to talk to LAPD detectives about
the case, documents show,

The FBI has interviewedseveralwitnesses at the suggestion of

the Wallace family&#39;s
lawyers. Depositions A
suggest thatagents havereviewed Muhammad&#39;s mortgage payments and phone records and conducted
wiretaps, trying to link him to Mack. .

ne recently
FBI
an attempt
to elicit
surveillance
conducted
Muhammad
incrimihatihgstatements
San of Dieqo_am1,_so_urce
insaid,anwired informant
effortyielded nothing,*according-tcicotrffdocuments
fromhimjfhe
andpeo le EmliiarWe casef A 7

An FBI agent recentlytried to interview Mack at the federal prison in

Alabama where he is serving 14- yearsfor
the 19&#39;97 btahk&#39;irobberyt
Mack denied having anything to do with the Wallace murder, according
to court records
and sources.

,The FBIdeclined tocomment onthe investigation.

Documents indicate
that thebureauis
coordinating its work
with the LAPD&#39;s Professional
Standards Bureau, which iooks into alleged police misconduct.

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Chief Berkow,
Michael
Deputy
of bureau,
the
gd Friday:
said
is a=jo9FBl-LAPD
and the LAPD iscooperating 100%."
"This investigation,
&#39; Court
documents, however,
show thatLAPD_robbery-homicide detectives
are focusingonapossible Texas
connection to
&#39; the Wallace slaying
unrelatedto
the Poole
theory. _

Police haveintenriewed theowner of ablue 1996 Bentleythat they suspect played arole in the shooting. Since
September, police have traveled several times to Houston to interview witnesses and pursue leads about
potential newsuspects -including aHouston rap entrepreneurand his friend who were allegedly near the crime
scene on the night of the shooting, records show.

So far,Police have
producedno
evidence tying theBentley oreither manto thekilling, sources
said.

[illustration]
Caption: PHOTO:RAP MOGUL: Marion "Suge"Knight is serving time for aprobation violation;
PHOTOGRAPHER: Los Angeles Times; PHOTO: TARGET: Rap star Notorious B.l.G.
was gunned down March
1997, after amusic industry party in Los Angeles; PHOTOGRAPHER: Los Angeles Times
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Credit: Times Staff Writer

Reproduced withpermission ofthe copyright owner. Furtherreproduction or

distribution is prohibited without
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set to begin in
suit led by family of slain
rap star against the city.

On the eve of testifying about the murder of Notorious B.l.G., a prime

witness for the &#39; I hag, revealed that he suffers from severe
memory lapses I
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to provide
eyewitness testimonytying corrupt police officersto alleged conspirators
behind the 1997 slaying,spoke out Friday after learning that an arrest
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Christopher Wallace,was gunned down March 9, 1997, after a music

industry party outside the Peterson AutomotiveMuseum in the Mid-
Wilshire district. The case has spawned several investigations,and a
cottage industry of books, documentaries andmagazine articlesexploring
possible conspiracy theories involvingWallace and Tupac Shakur, the
other leading rap artist of his generation, whowas shot to death in Las
Vegas the year before. No one has been charged in either slaying. b6

Early on, Los Angeles Police Departmentdetectives speculatedthat the WC

killings stemmedfrom a turf war between EastCoast and West Coast
rappers. Beforetheir deaths, Shakur and Wallace had been feuding, and a
rivalry between
their record
labeisl |L0s Angeles-
based Death Row and New York-based Bad Boy Entertainment, had
escalated into aseries of assaults _and shootings.

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However, the FBI, citing lack of evidence, closed an investigation into this
theoryJanuary.
in June
On 13,
the family
droppedl
as defendants in the suit.

The next day, the rapper&#39;s relatives

persuaded U.S. Dis &#39;
Florence-Marie Cooper to issue the arrest warrant after to
answer asubpoena to testify in the trial.

statements Friday cast further

doubtthe
ontheory
thecenter of
at
the lawsuit: that corrupt police officersorchestrated the slaying of the 24-
year-old rapper, and that top |_APD of cials covered up their actions.

inadeclaration
led June
6, 2004,| I
| |had "personal knowledge"
regarding Wallace&#39;s
slaying, alleging i&#39;haF"persons Death
within Row Records offered$25,000
to alaw enforcement officer"to kill the rapper.

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boxing match in
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statements before placing them in the declaration.

"My statements were taken out of contex Some thin s in

there I never even said. They added
them in. As far a
&#39; w parties, I never said that.

I lhe takes "ful|

blame"signing
for false
a declaration.

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offit on
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testify.
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to afraid
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expres r and
reluctance to
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said attorne An
earlier motion that we on
led his behalf to
preserve his testimony because
he was afraid was fought by the city, and the court denied
it being taken.
Now here we are on the eve of trial and it&#39;sheno
wonder attempts to
distance himseif from statements he made long before a lawsuit was ever
led."

In his
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