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08. The Impostor (Jimmy Sabatino)

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Jimmy Sabatino and the FBI's Unpaid Royalties

In 2007, from prison, Jimmy Sabatino filed a lawsuit for $20 million against Sean Puff Daddy Combs and Bad Boy Records. The lawsuit was dismissed almost immediately, but there were some interesting results to follow. In the discovery phase of the lawsuit, there were multiple FBI reports entered into evidence that describedJimmy Sabatino as a huge player in the music industry. These newly discovered documents were sent anonymously to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist named Chuck Phillips who was investigating the bi-coastal rap war That culminated in the murders of Tupac in 1996 and Biggie Smalls in 1997. A week after the article's publication, the website The Smoking Gun published revelations that the

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