New evidence in Notorious B.I.G. case

LOS ANGELES, June 8 (UPI) -- Evidence in the slaying of rapper Notorious B.I.G. shows his family's attorney Perry Sanders knew of an alleged conspiracy, Los Angeles attorneys charge.

Los Angeles city attorneys said the legal team representing the family of the rapper, born Christopher Wallace, went to absurd lengths to "satisfy their ambition to extract hundreds of millions of dollars" from the city, papers filed in federal court said.

Wallace's family sued the city in 2002, charging the Los Angeles Police Department covered up police involvement in the rapper's unsolved shooting death.

The case went to trial last year and Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declared a mistrial and ordered the city to pay $1.1 in sanctions after the family's legal team accused the LAPD of withholding evidence.

Private attorney Vincent Marella, working for the city, found a four-page report prepared in November 2002 by an investigator working for Wallace's family. The report detailed an interview with a prison informant revealing the same information Sanders claimed he had learned in a late-night phone call in 2005.

Marella accused Sanders in court of deliberately deceiving the court and staging a contemptuous "drama of outrage."