Mike Tyson Implicated in Murder for Hire

Dwayne Meyers, a former member of the Cash Money Brothers gang and now a federal witness testified today that Mike Tyson paid $50,000 for a contract to kill members of a Brooklyn drug gang that murdered his bodyguard in 2000.

Meyers said that Tyson and another person named Muhammad Nur each paid a $50,000 bounty on the heads of CMB leaders Damion "World" Hardy and Edward "Taz" Cooke.

Assistant U.S. Attorney James Loonam asked "Why would Mike Tyson put a hit out on Taz and World?" To which Meyers replied, "He was close friends with 'Homicide,'" referring to victim Darryl Baum by his nickname.

Darryl Baum, who was Tyson's bodyguard, was also suspected of shooting rapper 50 Cent the month before he was killed. Coincidentally 50 Cent later purchased Tyson's Connecticut Mansion.