According to new documents recently unearthed, the FBI was investigating the involvement of Wu-Tang Clan members RZA and Raekwon, in the alleged murder plot against two Staten Island drug dealers in 1999.
According to a new report by the Staten Island Advance, two brothers, Anthony and Harvey Christian were found guilty of running a 20-year drug-dealing kingdom in Staten Island and found Anthony Christian of orchestrating the June 19, 1999 murder of 17-year-old Jerome (Boo Boo) Estella.
Anthony's lawyer, Michael Gold, is now contending, 16 years later, that an FBI file alleges that Estella was killed "at the instruction of members of the Wu-Tang Clan, a rap group, as revenge for robberies." He is now asking for all files pertaining to the murder and to another murder of Corey (Shank Bank) Brooker.
"These reports seem to suggest someone else was liable for those murders. I'm not suggesting that Wu-Tang committed these crimes. The FBI did," Gold told the Advance. "What I'm trying to ascertain is their stated belief in an official file that Wu-Tang ordered this homicide."
Gold is referring to the 95-page FBI file on Wu-Tang founding member Ol' Dirty Bastard that was released in a heavily redacted form in 2012 following a Freedom of Information Act request.
Prior to the murder, Estella allegedly robbed the families of RZA and Raekwon. Prosecutors maintain that robbery was bad business for the drug dealers and Anthony Christian murdered Estella as a result.
The trigger man in the killings, Brian Humphreys, a Bloods member, turned informant testified against the Christian brothers.
"A couple of weeks before the Boo Boo shooting, Uncles (the street name of drug supplier-turned-informant Paul Ford) told Humphreys about a Blood named Boo Boo who just came home from jail. He stated that Boo Boo had robbed RZA's little brother and had also gotten into something with the Christian brothers," the filing reads.
The separate, still unsolved murder of Corey Brooker, committed three days after Estella's is listed by Gold as a possible hit order by RZA in exchange for $30,000 in retaliation for the robbery of his brother and Raekwon's cousin.
"Ford stated that he had previously heard that Shank Bank was killed by Phife (ph). Ford believes that Phife collected money from RZA for executing the hit," the filings read. It's not clear who "Phife" refers to.
Read the full filing below.
