Hip Hop On Trial

I have been following the trial of hip hop mogul Irv Gotti.

(How much do I love the word "mogul?")

Today's paper had a small story about how their former intern testified that he had seen shoe boxes full of x thousands of bills of "dirty money."

Gotti's attorney then produced a shoe box, x thousands of fake bills, and said something like "Since you claim to have seen x thousands of bills in a show box, please show us how x thousands of bills could fit."

The former intern, of course, could not fit the bills into the shoe box.

The hip hop community laughed.

The point of all of this? I can't believe this sort of thing happens in real life. It seems like something that would happen only on an episode of Ally McBeal. Lawyers using empty shoe boxes with fake bills as a demonstration.

Awesome.

This is going to be a great movie when they make a movie about this.

I only wonder if Ja Rule will play himself.