Lil’ Kim’s Ex Hit With Rico Charges Ranging From Murder To Kidnapping

Lil’ Kim’s former boyfriend Damion "World" Hardy has been hit with a federal RICO lawsuit, alleging that he was the head of a murderous crew known as the Cash Money Brothers. In a scenario that seems to be straight out of 1991’s movie "New Jack City," Hardy, who is currently incarcerated for other drug related […]

Lil’ Kim’s former boyfriend

Damion "World" Hardy has been hit with a federal RICO lawsuit, alleging

that he was the head of a murderous crew known as the Cash Money Brothers.

In a scenario that seems

to be straight out of 1991’s movie "New Jack City," Hardy, who is

currently incarcerated for other drug related charges and CMB have been linked

to five known murders since 1991, when the gang was originally formed by Hardy

and his brother Myron "Wise" Hardy.

Like the movie’s drug gang,

also known as Cash Money Brothers or CMB, Hardy’s gang is accused of using ruthless

violence to intimidate potential rivals and cornering the cocaine trade in the

Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York.

"[CMB] members and

associates engaged in acts involving murder, robbery, kidnapping and narcotics

trafficking," the indictment read. "The CMB operated in Brooklyn,

New York and elsewhere."

The group’s reach stretched

to Philadelphia, where two other men were arrested and charged in the RICO lawsuit

as well.

Federal prosecutors said

CMB’s controlled an area around Lafayette Gardens, a housing project located

in Bedford Stuyvesant, New York.

The area has produced some

of hip-hop’s most legendary rappers, including Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Big

Daddy Kane, Fab 5 Freddy producer Easy Mo Bee and others.

"From its

inception, the CMB engaged in the distribution of large quantities of cocaine

base in and around Lafayette Gardens, and the CMB eventually obtained almost

complete control of the distribution of cocaine base in that area. In addition,

members and associates of the CMB engaged in numerous acts of violence in furtherance

of the gang’s interests, including the murders of several rival drug dealers

and the attempted murder of at least one witness."

Authorities stepped up their

surveillance of the gang in June 2003, after 16 pounds of cocaine was seized

on a passenger jet arriving from Grenada.

In Grenada another

16 pounds were seized and an undercover operation revealed the CMB gang was

attempting to arrange a shipment of 100 more pounds of cocaine to the United

States.

Police said the gang operated

with no discretion, murdering an unnamed woman and inadvertently, the death

of an award winning director named Jhoan Camitz.

According to the indictment,

Hardy and two other men shot and killed rival drug dealer Ivory "Peanut"

Davis in front of Club NV in New York.

Davis was shot twice in

the back and as he drove away, he struck Camitz. Both men died a short time

later.

Hardy has also been linked

to a 2003 incident in Jersey City, New Jersey involving 50 Cent, after the rapper

appeared on Hot 97 and made disparaging remarks about Hardy’s then girlfriend,

Lil’ Kim.

"I wrote ‘Magic Stick’/I

gave Kim a hit/then I refused to shoot the video, she threw a little fit/got

emotional and sh*t/now this I don’t get/why would I care about your emotions,

you’re not my beeyatch," 50 rapped.

Later as 50 Cent’s

tour buses were entering a Doubletree hotel in Jersey City, over 10 shots were

fired by gunman suspected to be associated with Hardy, who was staying with

Lil Kim at her Bergen County, New Jersey estate according to published reports.