The con man, James Sabatino, 31, has long sought to insinuate himself, after the fact, in a series of important hip-hop events, from Shakur's shooting to the murder of The Notorious B.I.G. In fact, however, Sabatino was little more than a rap devotee, a wildly impulsive, overweight white kid from Florida whose own father once described him in a letter to a federal judge as "a disturbed young man who needed attention like a drug."
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haha I was just coming here to ask about this, cuz in your previous post you mentioned that "The stories of Lil Shawn, his manager Jimmy Henchman, and mob-connected industry insiders James Sabatino and Haitian Jack have been circulating for years"
but I had never heard of Sabatino before Philip's piece.. had you specifically heard sabatino's name in the mix before the times piece broke?
told you it was a red herring.
whoa is right.
how about that TSG piece though? somebody give them a Pulitzer. best quote:
"It is not Bureau of Prisons policy to allow cross-country furloughs. Even to attend the Soul Train Music Awards."
This is interesting. It's from an interview with Chuck Phillips at hiphopdx on March 17.
(http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1070/title.chuck-philips-all-eyez-on-me)
DX: I guess I’m just genuinely a little suspicious of this informant’s statements regarding Sabatino.
CP: The main thing I’m trying to say is I didn’t base my story on that informant. I based this story on my own reporting. We came up on those documents later after I was pretty much sure of what happened. The newspaper always likes [to have] a document [to substantiate claims in a story]. I don’t particularly believe in F.B.I. papers or L.A.P.D. reports. They’re often lies. I’ve got a guy that I’m working a story on that’s been in prison for 13 years for something he didn’t do, but if you were to read the reports you would believe he did everything. So I mean, legally something like that is very good to have. And it confirms a lot of the stuff that’s in my story, that document. But I had reported my own story based on the people I believe were in involved.
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