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Mr. Cynical 

The entertainment industry is full of stories of celebrities and their involvement with criminal figures and underworld syndicates.

Nothing better illustrates that better than the 1972 film "THE GODFATHER" which displays the "favor for a favor" credo in the dramatic scene of struggling actor Johnny Fontaine requesting a favor from the Godfather played by the late great Marlon Brando, by assisting Fontaine in landing a role from the blatantly defiant director Jack Woltz in a film that could salvage the actor's career.

Validating his title as the "Godfather", Brando agrees to take on the task, by stating how simple this will be accomplished because in his words he would make the director "an offer he can't refuse".

Needless to say, the director accepts the "offer" following a few aggressive gestures made on the Godfather's behalf, and as a result Johnnie gets the role, the Godfather is praised and all is well in lala land.

So to speak, we often find interesting parallels in the real world, it was well noted that the story of Johnny Fontaine and the Godfather was drawn from actual events, in the form of Frank Sinatra and his friendship with Carlo Gambino and his family of goons.

Sinatra wasn't shy about his associations at all, according to singer Eddie Fisher who acted along with Sinatra in various films, Sinatra once remarked.."I'd rather be a Mafia Don, than a president of the United States", this perspective was picked up by the FBI as well, who's director at the time J. Edgar Hoover was convinced that Sinatra had benefited from his Mafia ties, by co-signing businesses and homes for Sam Gianciana who had inherited the syndicate known as the "CHICAGO OUTFIT" from the real "SCARFACE" Mr. Al Capone.

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This practice known as "nominating" basically conceals the identity of the real "boss" behind a business or property behind the shield of a celebrity or personality with no criminal background.

Recent events in the trial of BMF founders Terry and Demetrious Fleonry have brought this practice to light once again.  And in this case the "celebrity nominee" is in many ways considered a modern day Frank Sinatra with the only distinction of being a wealthy African American.

The mysterious relationship of the Flenory's and Sean "P Diddy" Combs, is like a 21st Century spin on the Sinatra Mafioso story that has been the subject of many articles and gossip influenced street lore.

But the trial actually brought things to light, considering that two of the remaining 39 defendants who were being prosecuted as being members of the Black Mafia Family Syndicate happen to be close associates of P Diddy himself.

Darryl "Poppa" Taylor according to federal investigators is the first cousin of P. Diddy and according to his own testimony was introduced to the Terry Flenory via P. Diddy's head of security Paul Buford, who was on trial himself as Taylor's co-defendant and remains a fugitive as of this writing. http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=59767

This scenario was a long series of mysterious publicized encounters with BMF members, dating back to June 2003 when the Sean "P Diddy" Combs first welcomed Big Meech Flenory and his brother Terry's entry into the entertainment industry in Atlanta with a lavish birthday bash at Justins Restaurant in Atlanta.

Still nothing suspicious was thought of the encounters until a few months later a shooting in the Buckhead area of Atlanta at a nightclub left 2 men dead, with one suspect having a strange relationship with the victim.

Anthony "Wolf" Jones was murdered in the parking lot of the Chaos Nightclub on Nov. 11th 2003 following a dispute within the club that had erupted into plain view in front of hundreds of witnesses in the parking lot, following a subsequent chase by authorities, two suspects were held in custody, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Ameen "Baby Bull" Hight, both of whom had withstood injuries connected to the shooting.

As with most shootings amongst African Americans, a cloud of "silence" prevented further investigation into the dispute, with nothing other than a weak motive that the shooting was based a dispute over a woman.

Needless to say without co-operation from any of the witnesses and two dead corpses, Big Meech and Baby Bull were freed on bond, pending house arrest.

 News, however, spread quick throughout the streets of urban America, that a "BIG BAD WOLF" had been murdered in ATL; for those familiar with the entertainment industry particularly the field of bodyguard and security work, Wolf was an infamous figure.

Wolf Jones, had figured prominently in the entertainment world, rising to stature as P. Diddy's head of security following the arrest by federal authorities of Walter "King Tut" Johnson; who was nabbed as a person of interest to agents on October 24, 1996 investigating the recent death of Tupac Shakur in September of that same year.
  

It was clearly obvious that fed investigators were desperately trying to search any lead, because King Tut had already escaped prosecution in his involvement in the shooting assault of Tupac in the 1994 quad studio session involving P Diddy and Biggie.

Wolf like King Tut had a dubious criminal past, but was able to refine himself as a mediator and problem resolver due to his employer Sean Combs numerous beefs and rivals.

Atlanta ironically would be the place that Wolf Jones would make his mark as a valuable enforcer for Sean Combs. It was on 1995 at a birthday fete for music mogul Jermaine Dupri, that words would be exchanged between Anthony "Wolf" Jones and an individual named Jake Robles a MOB PIRU blood gang member and close confident and bodyguard of Suge Knight.

The dispute according to Village Voice writer Peter Noel was best described as a war of words based on a contingent of crips from the west coast who ran alongside Suge Knight and his blood counterpart Jake Robles as part of the Death Row conclave who were questioning Wolf's loyalty to a "buster like Puff Daddy", who allegedly was growing weary of having to defend Puff from disputes that Puff would never have to deal with himself...according to one anonymous source:
               
"Puffy ain't always the best when it comes to paying," the impresario says. "A lot of the times it's his people, trying to play games, but whenever there was a discrepancy, all I had to do was step to Wolf and he'd take care of it. He'd make sure that problem was taken care of."

Wolf being the tactful thinker that he was, decided the best way to resolve the conflict of words which was bound to get heated was to exit the birthday bash, which seemed to temporarily calm things when the Death Row heads were escorted out by security only to bump heads again later on

But the role of "taking care of Puffy" was finally beginning to show cracks following the conclusion of the infamous "Shyne Barrow/Puff Daddy" club shooting trial when Jones was named as a codefendane along with Shyne and P Diddy in this highly publicized case...Anthony Jones was forced into a role he wasn't use to the media spotlight, while the Jake Robles affair faded into obscurity based on lack of cooperation of witnesses and the police lack of effort.

The Shyne Barrow trial was a circus, and put Jones in the compromising role once again as Diddy's "fall guy" throughout the trial. Jones had to retain his own legal counsel, he was successfully portrayed by his attorney as the "guy trying to defuse" the tension between the P diddy's crew and the victims.

 Following his acquittal of gun possession charges and attempted murder, Wolf used this opportunity to seek an "escape" from his compromising role under P Diddy.

 While continuing to work for Sean Combs as a security personnel for him in Atlanta specifically at Justins, Combs second restaurant facility, Wolf was according to family members making a name for himself as a budding entrepreneur in the field of personal security.

 Around 2000, in an effort to become more mobile in cities such as Miami, Atlanta and Los Angeles, Combs strengthened ties with an old friend a Gangsta Disciple affiliated cocaine enterpriser with nationwide crip ties named Big Meech out of Southwest Detroit...

 Who along with his brother Terry were quite mobile themselves, having franchised their cocaine operation from it's local base to outposts as far as Los Angeles and New York. 

Combs affiliation with the Black Mafia first came to notice, as Sean John was making it's presence known in the New York fashion circle in 1998, when VANITY FAIR magazine published an article questioning the financing of BAD BOY and pointing to it's source as being a cadre of "real bad boys" named the BLACK MAFIA.

But this did nothing to stop or discourage Diddy as the mantra he coined he states "we won't stop" was quickly becoming a reality.

Meech became a major player in Diddy's unstoppable quest to become a well enforced demagogue in the entertainment world and it's safe to say that Meech's monetary strength, as well as access to a plethora of gun toting goons across the states, made him a valuable resource to P. Diddy.

Soon Wolf was finding himself less of use to his employer P. Diddy who according to sources was growing distrustful of Wolf's loyalty and fearful that Wolf might get to talking about Diddy's street activities which he enabled him avoid persecution for so long.

It was in 2003 at the same birthday bash that Diddy hosted for Big Meech, that later on in the evening Wolf would find himself demoted from his position as Security head for Bad Boy entertainment and replaced by Paul Buford a close friend of the Flenory's and a high ranking member within the BMF click.

If your interested in reading more about BMF and their affiliation to Bad Boy, then i recommend you read Scolla's articles "Gangsta's in Hip Hop, where Tupac says himself that Bad Boy had the Black Mafia (Jimmy Henchmen and others) working in the background. Check the link - Tupac Interview

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 Mr. Cynical