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Smoking Gun Casts Doubt on Times’ Tupac/Combs Allegations

Posted By Spencer Cross On March 26, 2008 @ 2:42 pm In Breaking News, Crime | Comments Disabled

Looks like the Times is having to do a little back peddling ^[1] after internet-dirt-diggers-extraordinaire The Smoking Gun revealed that the documents used as the basis for last week’s report linking Sean Combs to an attack on Tupac Shakur ^[2] were faked ^[3]. Times Editor Russ Stanton has launched his own internal investigation into the matter:

Stanton ordered the review after the editor of the celebrity-centric website, The Smoking Gun, told the newspaper that he had reason to doubt The Times’ account and in particular the FBI records that were supposed to buttress the story.

The website this morning posted a story saying the records — purportedly statements by an unnamed informant to an FBI agent, which the newspaper posted on its website — appeared to be forgeries. The Smoking Gun said the documents seemed suspicious for multiple reasons, including the fact that they appeared to be written on a typewriter, rather than a computer, and included blacked-out sections not typically found in such documents.

Given that the March 19th article on Shakur’s 1994 shooting was the the Times most-viewed story this year, that’s gotta sting a least a little.

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[1] having to do a little back peddling: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-tupac27mar27,0,2043351.story

[2] linking Sean Combs to an attack on Tupac Shakur: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-naw-quad17mar17,0,6893015.story

[3] faked: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0325081sabatino1.html

[4] Isn’t Smoking in Restaurants Against the Law?: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/02/05/isnt-smoking-in-restaurants-against-the-law/

[5] Super cute "no smoking" posters set to nauseate entire city: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/06/22/super-cute-no-smoking-posters-set-to-nauseate-entire-city/

[6] Will smoking be cool again?: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/10/12/will-smoking-be-cool-again/

[7] LA Times marches on: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/01/08/la-times-marches-on/

[8] LA City Council Mulls More Smoking Restrictions: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/01/08/la-city-council-mulls-more-smoking-restrictions/

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