HIP HOP MOGUL JIMMY HENCHMAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR DRUG RING

JAMES ROSEMONG AKA JIMMY HENCHMAN

Fallen hip-hop mogul James Rosemond – long suspected of involvement in the 1994 Manhattan shooting of Tupac Shakur -was sentenced to life behind bars Friday for orchestrating a multi-million dollar drug distribution enterprise.
A former music industry titan who once mingled with the likes of Jay-Z, Akon, and Sean Combs, Rosemond was found guilty last year of using his thriving record label as a front for the coastal cocaine ring.

“This was astonishing in its breadth and duration and intensity,” Judge John Gleeson said of his venture. “You chose that life and this is the punishment you get.”

Prosecutor Todd Kaminsky skewered Rosemond before Gleeson dropped the hammer, blasting him for funding his luxury lifestyle by flooding his own community with drugs.

Already doomed to die in prison, Rosemond must still answer to a murder rap in the Southern District.

The Brooklyn native is accused of ordering a hit on a Bronx associate of 50 Cent for allegedly slapping his son during a dispute.

Insiders have long suspected Rosemond of ordering an infamous hit on Tupac Shakur at a Manhattan recording studio that touched off a vicious coastal feud that ended with the deaths of Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.

Rosemond was arrested in 2011 after a running from federal agents who spotted him near the W Hotel in Union Square.

Once the toast of the rap music industry, Rosemond’s glittering circle appears to have contracted after his arrest and guilty conviction.

Only a handful of people submitted letters of support to Gleeson before Rosemond’s sentencing – and none of his former rap world allies were among them.

Rosemond’s defense crumbled under the weight of testimony from several cooperating witnesses who turned against him.

He chose not to speak yesterday before his sentencing and walked out of the courtroom without turning to look at his supporters in the gallery.