Lawyer Slams Inmate’s Tupac Claim

A convicted felon’s confession to robbing and shooting Tupac Shakur in 1994 allegedly on orders from a rap mogul to start a war between Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G is bogus, according to lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman.

“It’s a flat-out lie,” Lichtman, who represents James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond, told the New York Daily News June 15. “Dexter Isaac is not claiming this 17 years later to clear his conscience. He’s doing it because he’s told anybody who will listen he doesn’t want to die in prison.

“He has kids and wants to work off his sentence. He can’t be trusted.”

A letter from Isaac, who’s serving time at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., was posted on Allhiphop.com June 15. In the letter, Isaac claims he was hired and paid $2,500 by Rosemond, owner of Czar Entertainment, to rob Shakur outside NYC’s Quad Studio. Shakur was robbed and shot five times, but survived. His subsequent 1996 murder remains unsolved.

“He gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took,” Isaac wrote. “He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Cynthia Reid. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery.”

Isaac also implies in the letter that he may have information about Shakur’s murder in 1996 and B.I.G.’s murder in 1997.
“Now I’m not going to talk about my friend Biggie’s death or 2Pac’s death, but I would like to give their mothers some closure. It’s about time someone did, and I will do so at a different time,” he wrote.

Isaac doesn’t hide the fact that he’s revealing the information to get back at Rosemond, who allegedly identified Isaac as a government snitch. Isaac reportedly denies the accusation.

Lichtman told the Daily News that his client is wanted on a federal fugitive warrant for his indictment in a case involving narcotics charges. Rosemond denies any wrongdoing.

New York City Police spokesman Paul Browne told Allhiphop.com an investigation has been opened into Issac’s allegations.