INMATE ADMITS LYING ABOUT POLICE INVOLVEMENT IN RAPPER’S MURDER
A prison inmate informant who claimed a Los Angeles police officer was involved in the killing of rapper NOTORIOUS B.I.G. has admitted he lied.
Waymond Anderson, a R&B singer serving a life sentence for murder, admits he implicated policeman Rafael Perez in the 1997 slaying in order to receive a financial payout from city officials.
In a deposition made on 20 August (07), Anderson said, "I don’t know Rafael Perez. It was a lie, and I’m ashamed of it." Anderson now claims the family of Notorious B.I.G. - real name Christopher Wallace - and their lawyer promised him a share of any potential reward if he lied about police involvement in the murder.
However, the Wallace family’s lawyer Perry R. Sanders Jr. denies the accusation, stating, "This is wholesale, made-up-out-of-whole-cloth perjury." The hip-hop star, who was also known as Biggie Smalls, was shot dead in Los Angeles in March 1997.
Earlier this year (07), his family asked a judge for permission to expand a wrongful death lawsuit against Los Angeles city officials after discovering Perez was on duty the night the rapper was killed.
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