“LA Times” Apologizes for Erroneous Tupac Shooting Story
The Los Angeles Times has issued an apology following yesterday’s revelation that their March 17th report which implicated Sean “Diddy” Combs and his associates in a 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur was partially based on fabricated documents. “In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job,” Chuck Philips, the author of the report said in a statement. Deputy managing editor Marc Duvoisin added: “We should not have let ourselves be fooled. That we were is as much my fault as Chuck’s. I deeply regret that we let our readers down.” An imprisoned con man, James Sabatino, is believed to have forged the FBI documents that were at the center of the report.
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