It is a story seemingly out of a Hollywood movie, a wealthy gangster hip hop rap mogle and millionaire attempts to bend the law.
according to prosecutors the Infamous gangster rap producer and millionaire music executive Marion Suge Knight is trying to buy testimony in his upcoming murder trial! According to Knight’s attorney Matt Fletcher, the Rap king said
I’ve never paid anyone, period, end of story, Fletcher then said – As far as I know, (witnesses) haven’t been paid by anyone, I don’t believe Suge Knight has the money to pay anyone.
The music mogul is being tried for the hit and run accident that left one man dead and another critically injured. The accident occurred during a confrontation in a Compton parking lot. Suge Knight turned himself in the next day and was charged with suspicion of murder. Prosecutors say that they have obtained recorded audio of Knight and Matt Fletcher in a jail cell talking over the paying of large sums of money to key witnesses who will testify regarding the victim of the armed assault on the night of January 29.
The damming audio supposedly features Fletcher saying
That’s a fair motherf**ing investment, you know, 20, 25 thousand dollars to pay to these motherf***ers to get home?
The above quote is definitely not something you hear every day at Harvard Law School, however Fletcher ever the classic stereotype of a gangster attorney later told Daily News that he was only speaking of paying off a biker gang who he claims has video of the incident.
Fletcher has said he is planning to challenge the DA on why they have the recordings in the first place, saying it violates client-attorney privilege. Knight has already spent over two years “Straight Out of Compton” in a jail cell awaiting trial. Knight’s trial to scheduled to begin next year.