Brooklyn drug Lord Had Mike Tyson Marked For Assassination

AN ongoing murder trial involving Brooklyn drug kingpin Damion “World” Hardy has revealed details of a feud he had with Mike Tyson in the early 2000s.
Hardy, who ran a crew called the Cash Money Brothers, is standing trial for a string of executions he ordered more than 10 years ago, including the murder of Tyson’s friend and former bodyguard Darryl “Homicide” Baum.
Hardy, who was once reportedly engaged to rapper Lil’ Kim, was arrested in 2004 for his role in six murders which were seen as a retaliation for the death of his brother, Myron.
Baum reportedly had no connection to Myron’s death, but was targeted after trying to force another Cash Money Brothers member to sell drugs for him.
The New York Daily News reports witnesses testifying in the trial at Brooklyn Federal Court last week said Hardy put a $50,000 bounty on Tyson’s head after word spread the heavyweight champion had done the same to him.
Tyson has previously denied putting a contract out on Hardy.
Allen “Boo” Bryant and Shelby “Moo” Henderson told the court they were against killing Tyson because he was a Muslim.
“World said, ‘I’m a Muslim and he (Tyson) put the money up’,” Bryant said. “World was saying it (Tyson’s religion) didn’t matter ... If World would have called us, we would have did it.”
Henderson added: “It was kill or be killed ... I felt they (World and his crew) had a right to defend themselves.”
The Cash Money Brothers, who had roughly 50 members, controlled drug sales around the Lafayette Gardens housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Hardy, now 41, suffers from schizophrenia but has been medicated so he is able to comprehend court proceedings. Tyson could not be reached for comments.