Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Tupac/Biggie-nut Chuck Philips might have relied a bit too heavily on FBI documents for his recent big story in the LA Times, in which he alleges Sean Combs knew that Tupac Shakur was going to be attacked in NYC in 1994 before it happened. The Smoking Gun found that the FBI documents were forged by "James Sabatino, 31, [who] has long sought to insinuate himself, after the fact, in a series of important hip-hop events, from Shakur's shooting to the murder of The Notorious B.I.G.. In fact, however, Sabatino was little more than a rap devotee, a wildly impulsive, overweight white kid from Florida whose own father once described him in a letter to a federal judge as 'a disturbed young man who needed attention like a drug.'" Way to go, Philips.

According to TSG, the forged FBI documents were riddled with spelling and grammar errors" and created on a typewriter, which FBI agents haven't used in 30 years. Sabatino is currently serving time at the Allenwood Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. When provided with the information, representatives from the LA Times said they would launch their own investigation. Philips apparently worked on the story for six months before it was published last week.