Fats Joe‘s identify is being dragged by way of the mud following the submitting of an explosive new lawsuit accusing the Terror Squad captain of horrific acts. However Fats Joe’s legal professional, Joe Tacopina, tells AllHipHop it’s nothing greater than an try at revenge.
Fats Joe (actual identify Joseph Antonio Cartagena) already sued the accuser, Terrance Dixon, and his embattled legal professional, Tyrone Blackburn, for libel. Now, he believes Dixon and Blackburn are merely retaliating out of spite.
“The lawsuit filed by Tyrone Blackburn and Terrance Dixon is a blatant act of retaliation—a determined try and deflect consideration from the civil go well with we filed first, which uncovered their coordinated scheme to extort Mr. Cartagena by way of lies, threats, and manufactured allegations,” Tacopina says. “We didn’t simply sue a disgruntled former worker making an attempt to revive a false declare from 15 years in the past—we sued the lawyer behind all of it. Tyrone Blackburn has a well-documented sample of abusing the courts to harass defendants and generate media consideration.
“Two separate federal judges have condemned his conduct—one for submitting headline-chasing lawsuits filled with salacious and baseless claims, and one other for making repeated authorized misstatements and private assaults in courtroom filings. He’s now the topic of a pending referral to the Southern District’s disciplinary committee.”
He continues, “Regulation enforcement is conscious of the extortionate demand on the coronary heart of this scheme. The allegations towards Mr. Cartagena are full fabrications—lies meant to wreck his status and pressure a settlement by way of public stress. Mr. Cartagena won’t be intimidated. We’ve got taken authorized motion to show this fraudulent marketing campaign and maintain everybody concerned accountable.”
Dixon filed a $20 million civil RICO lawsuit towards the Bronx rapper in federal courtroom on Thursday (June 19), alleging years of exploitation, fraud and abuse underneath what he calls “The Cartagena Enterprise.” The criticism accuses Fats Joe of orchestrating a legal operation involving pressured labor, sexual coercion, monetary fraud and witness intimidation.
“[Fat Joe] employed persistent verbal abuse, threats of bodily violence, erratic and inadequate fee, manipulative management over journey and lodging, and steady humiliation,” Dixon claimed. “Collectively, these coercive techniques resulted in persistent emotional and psychological misery, profound nervousness, and extreme trauma that proceed to have an effect on [Dixon] to at the present time.”
However Fats Joe filed go well with towards Dixon and Blackburn in April for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional misery. Within the criticism, Fats Joe outlines how Dixon and Blackburn conspired to extort him for cash and it began on March 23, when each events despatched a written demand to Fats Joe searching for monetary compensation for being a “ghostwriter and uncredited vocalist” on a few of his songs.
When the false demand was ignored, they threatened to file a criticism not only for unpaid wages and different compensation, but in addition false and outrageous allegations towards Fats Joe, together with unspeakable acts reminiscent of statutory rape, pressured labor, intercourse trafficking, and fraud.
Blackburn additionally instructed Tacopina he’d verified all of the allegations and had spoken to crucial witnesses, together with one of many alleged minors, who in the end denied ever talking to Blackburn.
“These allegations are fully false and a part of a legal conspiracy orchestrated between a disgruntled former hype man and his legal professional,” Fats Joe mentioned. “These two people have been scheming collectively to extort me with their elaborate and ludicrous calls for altering by the day. The relentless threats, harassment, and defamation I’ve endured as they peddle salacious lies are completely deplorable. I’m taking authorized motion to show their misconduct and I’m absolutely assured that the info will reveal that is nothing greater than a misleading and determined rip-off.”
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