It's not looking good for Game's manager James 'Jimmy Henchman' Rosemond as his former associates turn state's witness and reveal that Jimmy used Interscope offices in LA as a drop off and pick up for the drugs and money he was shipping cross country...
From The Smoking Gun
Department of Justice prosecutors this week provided defense lawyers with shipping records detailing “pickups and deliveries” made at Interscope’s Los Angeles office by a cargo firm that was used to transport the music cases, which were alternately stuffed with kilos of cocaine and upwards of $1 million in cash.
A year-long Drug Enforcement Administration investigation has resulted in the indictment of James Rosemond on 18 felony charges, which could result in a sentence of life in prison for the 46-year-old rap music manager. Rosemond is being held without bail in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.
While it is unclear how members of the narcotics ring would have had access to Interscope’s offices, Rosemond’s biggest client, Los Angeles rapper The Game, records for the label. Additionally, TSG has learned, a road manager for The Game (real name: Jayceon Taylor) has been implicated in the bicoastal trafficking ring. Interscope is a division of Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company. UMG itself is owned by Vivendi, the French media conglomerate.
Prosecutors and DEA agents have been provided detailed insider accounts of the drug trafficking ring by former Rosemond associates who have admitted their roles in the operation. Several of these cooperators have described how they were dispatched to either Interscope or various music studios to retrieve “road cases” stuffed with either cash or cocaine.
A key member of the cocaine ring was Khalil Abdullah, a Rosemond associate who recently pleaded guilty to narcotics trafficking and obstruction of justice charges. The 37-year-old Abdullah, who has struck a cooperation deal with prosecutors, has told investigators that, over the past two years, he oversaw the shipment in “road cases” of cash and cocaine worth millions of dollars.
Since Rosemond headed a music and talent management firm, investigators allege, he was able to “disguise these shipments as legitimate freight that was ostensibly needed by the performance artists he managed,” according to a U.S. District Court filing. The coke- and cash-filled cases were shipped under accounts belonging to Rosemond’s Czar Entertainment and the “road manager for one of the performing-artists Rosemond managed,” prosecutors added.
The road manager, a source told TSG, worked for Los Angeles rapper The Game, the highest profile artist represented by Rosemond’s firm.
In late-December, acting on a tip from Abdullah, DEA agents seized a case containing nearly $800,000 from a New York City recording studio (the cash was about to be shipped west). DEA agents subsequently learned that the road manager “had arranged for the case to be transported from the studio in which it was discovered to Los Angeles.”
