editorial comment Well, it's a pretty cheesy line Irv! paraphernalia hopes the beat was good....

Rap moguls Irv and Chris Gotti pleaded innocent in New York to charges of laundering more than $1 million in drug money through their record label.

The brothers, whose label the Inc., used to be known as Murder Inc., were released on $1 million bond each after their appearance in federal court in Brooklyn, MTV.com said Thursday.

"In no way," Irv Gotti told the judge, "have I done anything wrong except make great music that people seem to love. That's all I'm guilty of."

Federal prosecutors charged the Inc., whose roster includes superstars Ashanti and Ja Rule, was part of a criminal ring that carried out street assassinations to protect interstate heroin and crack operations.

The drug operation allegedly was headed by the brothers' childhood buddy Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, a reputed drug kingpin, E! Online said.

UPI News Service, 01/27/2005

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