It was all a dream.....con faked Fed papers, LATimes apologizes for Tupac story

Wow...I am just now really putting all this info together that went down with the LA Times/AP story that ran a few weeks back, implicating Sean Combs among others, to the Tupac shooting in New York. It has turned into quite the drama of it own, as both the Times and AP have retracted the story, with the source of the information being basically called a liar,con man and impostor. The documents that was said to be the proof, turned out to be fake. Meanwhile, several news organizations ran with the story, and Hip-Hop's ever watchful eye focused in on the news. The man charater in this Hip-Hop drama is a man named James Sabatino.

Tupac Papers Were Phony, L.A. Times Says in Apology

"In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job," Chuck Philips, the story's Pulitzer Prize-winning author, said in a statement. "I'm sorry." Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin also took responsibility, saying: "We should not have let ourselves be fooled. . . . I deeply regret that we let our readers down."


FBI To L.A. Times: Tupac Documents Fake

Newspaper sorry for Tupac claim

Big Fat Liar-The Smoking Gun article

quote from TSG

The Times appears to have been hoaxed by an imprisoned con man and accomplished document forger, 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's trusted emissary to Death Row Records boss Marion "Suge" Knight during the outset of hostilities in the bloody East Coast-West Coast rap feud.