By STEFANIE COHEN
June 13, 2008
Mike Tyson put up $50,000 for a "hit" on members of a vicious Brooklyn drug gang who allegedly shot his former bodyguard to death, a witness testified yesterday.
Nothing ever came of the contract on the Cash Money Brothers gang, Dwayne "Thor" Meyers testified.
The claim came during the trial of Abubakr Raheem, 38, an alleged member of the ruthless gang that controlled the Lafayette Gardens Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Raheem allegedly drove the getaway car in two turf-war slayings, according to prosecutors.
Meyers said the former heavyweight champ put up the money in retaliation for the June 2000 slaying of Darryl "Homicide" Baum, Tyson's ex-bodyguard and close friend.
Just two weeks after the slaying, Tyson dedicated his knockout fight against Lou Savarese to his "brother, Darryl Baum."
"I love you with all my heart . . . Oh, God, I'm mad," Tyson said at the time.
"We got word Mike Tyson and [another man] had both contributed $50,000 apiece for the murders of Cash Money Brothers," Meyers testified.
Baum was gunned down just a few months after allegedly firing nine shots at rapper 50 Cent.
