FBI investigated 2 members of Wu Tang Clan in murders of NYC drug dealers

April 14, 2013: RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan performs during the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California. (Reuters)

The FBI investigated whether two founders of the old-school New York rap group Wu-Tang Clan had links to the 1999 murders of two Staten Island drug dealers who had robbed their relatives, according to a Brooklyn federal court filing.

The revelations stem from the convictions of former drug kingpins Anthony and Harvey Christian, who were found guilty last year of lording over a 20-year drug empire based on Staten Island and ordering the slaying of Jerome “Boo Boo” Estella in 1999.

In papers filed last month, assistant US Attorney Allon Lifshitz asserted that the relevant information had already been provided prior to trial — and he included several passages from FBI files to back up his claim.

The documents were first reported by the Staten Island Advance on Tuesday.

Those excerpts — culled from interviews with an informant named Brian Humphreys, the man who shot Estella — suggest that the doomed dealer had robbed RZA’s relative.

“A couple of weeks before the Boo Boo shooting, Uncles (informant Paul Ford) told Humphreys about a Blood named Boo Boo who just came home from jail. He stated that Boo Boo had robbed RZA’s little brother and had also gotten into something with the Christian brothers,” the excerpt reads.

“Uncles was talking about Boo Boo and said that he had just come home and robbed RZA’s brother and that they would likely come after him for that. Humphreys believes Uncles was referring to members of Wu-Tang.”

Another passage references a conversation between Humphreys, Ford and Anthony Christian, where Raekwon’s name pops up in relation to the death of Corey “Shank Bank” Booker, another Staten Island dealer.

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