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Death Row Records 673 Under Investigation
By Jeff Leeds and Jim Newton Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25-The FBI is investigating Death Row Re-cords, the leading independent rap music label, where rapper Tupac Shakur recorded his last songs, for Lists to street gangs and drug traf-ficking, law enforcement sources said today.
Federal authorities began a probe of the four-year-old company and some of its officers months before Shakur was fatally wounded in a shooting earlier this month in Las Ve-gas, according to sources familiar with the investigation, Shakur was a passenger in a car driven by Death Row co-foünder and CEO Marion "Suge Knight when he was shot.
The investigation of Death Row Records extends beyond individual members of the recording company to the activities of the company itself, sources said. One source close to the probe said federal officials are trying to determine whether the company was involved in money laundering and racketeering as well as drug traffick ing. FBI officials declined to confirm or deny the existence of a criminal in-vestigation.
Asked if the company would cooper ate with the inquiry, Death Row spokes-man George Pryce said, "Absolutely no comment, and hung up on a reporter, Shakur joined the Death Row Ebel last year after Knight put up $1.4 rail
bion to bail him out of New York's Rik-ers Island prison, where he was in cus tody while appealing a conviction for sexual abuse.
While the FBI probe appears to be the first major criminal investigation of the Los Angeles-based company, Death Row's executives and marquee artists have faced other legal troubles, Meanwhile, Las Vegas homicide in-vestigators say they are still searching for leads in connection with the shoot-ing of Shakur, who died Sept. 13. The singer-actor was riding in the passen ger seat of Knight's black BMW when a white late-model Cadillac pulled up beside them at a traffic light.
One police source said evidence from the scene suggested two men opened fire on Shakur with large-cali-ber handguns.
Police say their inquiry has been hampered by less-than-candid witness-es and conflicting accounts.
Investigators have also reviewed a videotape from a security camera at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, where-hours before the shooting-Shakur and several friends pummeled a young man after a heavyweight fight featuring Shakur's friend, Mike Tyson
While there was speculation that the man who fought with Shakur was a suspect in the shooting, police say he ras detained after the encounter and could not have tailed the Death Row entourage.
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