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Jimmy Henchman’s Lawyer Calls Dexter Isaac A ‘Liar’ Over Tupac Claims
(AllHipHop News) A lawyer for James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond has released a statement denying a report that his client paid to have Tupac Shakur robbed in 1994 at The Quad Studios in Manhattan. Dexter Isaac made the shocking confession to AllHipHop.com that he was paid $2,500 dollars to Rob Shakur on orders from Jimmy Henchman on November 30th, 1994. Isaac said he decided to come forward and confessed to the robbery and subsequent shooting of Shakur, after Rosemond labeled him a government informant in a statement released to AllHipHop.com. Henchman labeled Issac a snitch, over fears that he may be cooperating with the government, pertaining to Henchman’s drug conspiracy case, in which the rap mogul is accused of dealing hundreds of kilos of cocaine. Lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman told the New York Daily News that Isaac was “lying,” questioned his credibility and said he was attempting to shave time off of his own jail sentence. “It’s a flat out lie,” Rosemond’s lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman told the Daily News. “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.” According to NYPD spokesman Paul Brown, detectives have opened an investigation into AllHipHop.com’s initial report and plan to interview Isaac over his shocking allegations. Click here for AllHipHop.com’s original report.
Exclusive: Jimmy Henchman Associate Admits to Role in Robbery/Shooting of Tupac; Apologizes To Pac & B.I.G.’s Mothers
(AllHipHop News) A man has admitted to being involved in the attack on rap star Tupac Shakur in 1994, inside Manhattan’s Quad Studios in November of 1994, after allegedly being paid $2,500 dollars by James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond.Dexter Isaac, a former friend of Rosemond, is an inmate currently serving life in prison for murder, robbery and other offenses. Isaac came forward Wednesday (June 15th) with the information on the eve of what would be Tupac’s 40th birthday. He confessed to his involvement in the November 30th, 1994 robbery of Tupac Shakur to AllHipHop.com, after Jimmy Henchman identified him in a statement, relating to Henchman’s indictment for dealing numerous kilos of cocaine. “I want to apologize to his family [Tupac Shakur] and for the mistake I did for that sucker [Jimmy Henchman],” Dexter Isaac told AllHipHop.com from prison. “I am trying to clean it up to give [Tupac and Biggie’s] mothers some closure.” Henchman, who is currently on the run from Federal officials, claimed that Dexter Isaac, along with other incarcerated inmates were cooperating with the government in an investigation of his alleged drug dealing activities. “If the government is relying on informants like Winston Winnie Harris, a convicted drug dealer and Jamaican deportee, who came to me and motioned via hand signal that he was forced to wear a wire and begged me to skip town or Dexter Isaac who is serving life in prison plus 30 years, then Im sure I will not be offered a fair trial,” Henchman said in a statement released to AllHipHop.com in May of 2011. Dexter Isaac told AllHipHop.com that he decided to confess to the robbery to prove Jimmy Henchman’s involvement, in addition to clearing his conscience for his role in the robbery. Isaac said he was comfortable going on record relating to the robbery and shooting which resulted in Pac being reportedly shot, five times. Since the statute of limitations had expired, legally, no one can be prosecuted for the assault at this time. Isaac was a lifelong friend of Jimmy Henchman, who helped the former mogul set up his first company, Henchman Entertainment, in 1989. Isaac claims he never cooperated with the government in any investigation, and Jimmy Henchman’s allegations infuriated him. Isaac, who is also from Brooklyn, has long been suspected of being involved in the Quad shooting of Tupac Shakur, along with an associate name Spencer “Scooter” Bowens, who is also serving a life sentence and another man named George Roland Campbell. According to the confession below, Dexter Isaac not only knows what happened to Tupac Shakur’s jewelry, but he claims he is also in possession of the Hip-Hop star’s chain that was taken during the altercation on that infamous night in November of 1994. The shooting on November 30th, was the start of a deadly feud that resulted in the murders of both Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Their murders have never been solved. Isaac was indicted by the government in 1998 and was subsequently sentenced to life in prison for murder, robbery, fraud and witness intimidation charges. [Editor’s Note: His entire admission involving his role in the Tupac Shakur shooting in 1994 is listed below, along with his contact information for verification purposes.]
Exclusive: Former L.A. Times Writer Chuck Philips Replies To Jimmy Henchman; Threatens Lawsuit
(AllHipHop News) Journalist and former Los Angeles Times writer Chuck Philips has responded to a recent press release from James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond, who was recently indicted on federal cocaine distribution charges. In a statement released yesterday (May 23rd), Henchman name checked Chuck Philips and accused Philips and The New York Daily News of writing baseless stories in the media, which alleged that Henchman was involved in criminal activities, and cooperating with the government. Chuck Philips contacted AllHipHop.com to reply to Jimmy Henchman’s allegations. “I had no idea Jimmy Henchman was such a sensitive wee man suffering from so many paranoid delusions,” Philips snapped to AllHipHop.com. “Nor did I realize that Tha (self-proclaimed) Gangsta Manager of Rap was in fact a persecuted civil rights martyr at the center of a government conspiracy. Poor Jimmy. Has anyone seen my tiny violin?” Jimmy Henchman is accused of being involved in a cocaine distribution ring that shipped kilos of cocaine to studios New York, from the West coast, in road cases for music equipment.Hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash proceeds were then allegedly sent back to the West coast. Henchman, who is facing at least 15 years in prison when he is sentenced this June, lashed out at Philips in his statement yesterday. “Last year, in their frustration, the authorities employed Chuck Philips and The New York Daily News to spread baseless stories claiming that I was a rat (but never mentioned nor produced one person who I supposedly snitched on),” Jimmy Henchman said in his statement. “Their hope was to dupe susceptible people into cooperating with their bogus investigation,” Henchman continued. “Moreover, Chuck Philips the ‘journalist’ who was fired by The Los Angeles Times after it was revealed that he falsified documents as the basis for a libelous and eventually retracted story he fabricated about me back in 2008 started an anonymous campaign by planting more false stories on me in The Daily News and by writing dozens of letters to inmates serving considerable time in federal prison, begging them to cooperate in a grand jury convening on cooked up allegations against me,” Jimmy Henchman said in the statement. Chuck Philips accused Henchman of executing a PR stunt and making libelous comments against him repeatedly. “I believe he has confused me with a snitch he once saw in the mirror,” Philips said. “I never worked for the government,” Chuck Philips told AllHipHop.com. “It is Jimmy who ratted out his own friends for the feds. If he has lost the proffer he signed with the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys Office, I can send him a copy to refresh his memory.” Jimmy Henchman and Chuck Philips have a storied history together. It was Chuck Philips who supported Tupac Shakur’s allegations that Henchman and other associates set him up to be robbed and shot five times, in the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in 1994. On March 17th, 2008, The Los Angeles Times published an article titled “An Attack on Tupac Shakur Launched a Hip-Hop War” by Philips, which claimed that Henchman and Sean “Diddy” Combs had advanced knowledge that Tupac would be shot. The story was retracted by The Los Angeles Times in April of 2008, after a known con man named James Sabatino doctored FBI records in order to support the claims against Henchman and Combs, which were obtained from a court. The Los Angeles Times issued an apology to Combs and Henchmen and Henchman threatened the paper with $100 million dollar lawsuit. Both men vehemently denied any advanced knowledge about Tupac Shakur’s shooting in the lobby of The Quad. Now Chuck Philips is demanding an apology from Jimmy Henchman or else a lawsuit will be filed. “I noticed that Jimmy apologized to everyone except me the man he has slandered the most,” Chuck Philips told AllHipHop.com. “To paraphrase a letter with which his lawyer once put my ex-employer on notice, I would suggest that Mr. Henchman immediately print an apology to me and take out his checkbook or brace himself for an epic lawsuit.”
