Lil’ Kim’s ex-boyfriend and childhood friend Damion “World” Hardy is on trial for a number of executions and other crimes, including the murder of Mike Tyson’s former bodyguard.
According to the Daily News, Hardy, a Brooklyn native, allegedly began the Cash Money Brothers gang based in the Lafayette Gardens housing complex in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood. The group imported and trafficked drugs from their base until 2003, when federal agents found eight kilograms of cocaine from Grenada at New York’s JFK airport which they connected to the Cash Money Brothers, reports the New York Times. In the course of their business, rival gang members and enemies were allegedly killed by Hardy and his gang.