8 years and still no answers. The FBI has ditched an 18 month investigation into the 1997 murder of Notorious BIG that came up with no leads and no answers surrounding the controversial events leading up to the New York rapper‘s death.
The investigation focused mainly on whether the police and Suge Knight may have plotted the murder. The cause of the abandoning of the case surrounds lead agent Philip J. Carson. According to the Los Angeles Times, Carson was ordered to not have any contact with Voletta Wallace’s (Biggie’s mother) lawyers but still met with them and also had been subpoenaed to testify in her wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles (which goes to trial on April 12th). That case accuses the Los Angeles Police of covering up involvement in the murder.
According to the FBI’s Los Angeles field office acting head of the criminal division, Louis J. Caprino Jr., it was determined that “there was no basis for prosecution.” He did note that Caprino’s meetings with the lawyers did not factor into the decision.
Carson jumped on the case when the theory that there may have been involvement by the LAPD in the murder but when he interviewed the parties suggested, he came up with nothing new.
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Wallace’s Lawyer has cited that through an unidentified source that claims that the LAPD pressured the FBI into shutting down the case. The LAPD’s investigation remains open.
