Label sources said Tuesday that the payments were legitimate promotional expenses. Prosecutors have interviewed several music executives with knowledge of the tickets and other transactions as they prepare to convene a grand jury, sources said. Last year, Gotti negotiated a $1-million soundtrack deal with McGriff, securing a $500,000 advance check for him from Def Jam.Īuthorities also are reviewing a number of questionable transactions between Gotti and McGriff, including plane tickets and hotel reservations for McGriff underwritten by Murder Inc., sources said. and McGriff, a convicted drug kingpin whose gang ruled the crack trade in Jamaica, N.Y., during the 1980s. offices and seized the bank accounts of several companies involved in a soundtrack for the label’s first film project, “Crime Partners.” The low-budget film, which has yet to be released, stars Ja Rule and was produced and co-written by Kenneth McGriff.įederal agents are continuing to pore over confiscated documents, investigating alleged financial ties between Murder Inc. 24 shooting of Gotti’s brother in front of the 8th Avenue high-rise. and other tenants lobbied the building’s owners to expel Murder Inc. The Vivendi Universal-owned music giant had asked the rap label, which is partnered with its Def Jam Group, to leave because of complaints from fellow tenants. Last week, Gotti and his employees quietly packed up and moved to new offices on New York’s 54th Street after being pushed out of Universal’s nearby 8th Avenue complex. The clip - featuring actor Patrick Swayze as one of the officers - ends with a courtroom trial in which a jury exonerates Gotti and his label. The video, based on a Ja Rule song called “Murder Reigns,” spoofs law enforcement officials as they plot and execute a raid on Murder Inc.'s offices during an investigation into possible ties to drug money and other matters.

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