In case you haven’t heard Interscope Records has been the topic of conversation with the FEDS! Once again, the Smoking Gun cracked a scandal, this time involving the major music label Interscope. Members of a narcotics ring that sent large amounts of cocaine and cash back and forth across the U.S. in music “road cases” arranged pickups and deliveries at the offices of Interscope Records, a music industry power whose roster includes artists like U2, Eminem, and Lady Gaga, according to federal investigators.Department of Justice prosecutors this week provided defense lawyers with shipping records detailing “pickups and deliveries” made at Interscope’s Los Angeles office by a cargo firm that was used to transport the music cases, which were alternately stuffed with kilos of cocaine and upwards of $1 million in cash.
A year-long Drug Enforcement Administration investigation has resulted in the indictment of James Rosemond on 18 felony charges, which could result in a sentence of life in prison for the 46-year-old rap music manager. Rosemond, pictured in the mug shot, is being held without bail in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.
In a letter sent this week to Rosemond’s lawyer, prosecutor Todd Kaminsky disclosed that investigators were turning over an assortment of discovery material that included 65 pages of records from Rock-It Cargo, a large freight forwarder whose client list includes scores of musical acts.
Investigators allege that kilos of cocaine were shipped via Rock-It from L.A. to New York, where “members of the Rosemond Organizaton retrieved the road cases and distributed the cocaine,” according to a court affidavit sworn by DEA Agent Steven Miller. Ring members, Miller added, “collected the proceeds from cocaine sales, packed the cash into the road cases and transported them to music studios in Los Angeles.”To read the entire story go to: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/interscope-records-cocaine-shipments-654820
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