Fat Joe was hit with a flurry of disturbing allegations in a $20 million New York lawsuit from former hype man Terrance "T.A." Dixon this week. The plaintiff alleges that across over 16 years of collaboration, he witnessed the rapper allegedly have sexual relations with teenagers, commit financial fraud, engage in intimidation tactics, and much more.
According to an exclusive AllHipHop report, attorney Joe Tacopina will represent Joey Crack in this case, and issued a response to the lawsuit. Fat Joe's accuser had already received a lawsuit from the New York MC for libel, which also accused Dixon's attorney Tyrone Blackburn. You may recognize his name from Lil Rod's lawsuit against Diddy.
Elsewhere, Tacopina alleged that this new lawsuit is just a vengeful retaliation based on allegedly false claims. We will see how it plays out in court.
"[This is] a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the civil suit we filed first, which exposed their coordinated scheme to extort [Fat Joe] through lies, threats, and manufactured allegations," Joe Tacopina alleged. "We didn’t just sue a disgruntled former employee trying to revive a false claim from 15 years ago. We sued the lawyer behind it all. Tyrone Blackburn has a well-documented pattern of abusing the courts to harass defendants and generate media attention."
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Furthermore, Tacopina alleged that two federal judges criticized Blackburn's actions and that he's allegedly under referral to the Southern District's disciplinary committee. "Law enforcement is aware of the extortionate demand at the heart of this scheme," he alleged. "The allegations against [Fat Joe] are complete fabrications – lies intended to damage his reputation and force a settlement through public pressure. [Fat Joe] will not be intimidated. We have taken legal action to expose this fraudulent campaign and hold everyone involved accountable."
With this in mind, the defense wants to paint this lawsuit as an alleged shakedown of Fat Joe's career. He alleges that Dixon and Blackburn have been trying to extort him for cash since March, and he denies all the allegations against him. Meanwhile, we will see how this case develops, and take everything with a grain of salt.
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