Los Angeles Settles B.I.G. Claims
Federal courts have the city reimbursing the family of the deceased rapper.
The city of Los Angeles has been ordered to pay the legal costs of the family of Notorious B.I.G. after it was found to have withheld evidence during a civil trial.
Federal Judge Florence-Marie Cooper will give the family of Christopher Wallace, alias B.I.G., closure, if not the $2 million they originally sought in court. The city was found to have withheld evidence that a former LAPD officer was involved in the murder, a centerpiece of the family's case against the city.
B.I.G. was shot to death March 9, 1997 in what many saw as retaliation for the death of West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur some months earlier.