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Hey 50, You Might Want To Get Your Bulletproof Vests Elsewhere

Maybe instead of staking his career on outselling Kanye, 50 Cent should have remembered just how cheesy it is to play some teenage girl's bat mitzvah and considered his gangsta lean limp even before he released Curtis and got schooled by Graduation.

You've heard the countless jokes about bigwigs profiting from the Iraqi war as well as separate guffaws about that $10 million bat mitzvah -- well, now you can cut corners and combine 'em into one punchline: David Brooks, founder and chairman and chief executive officer of DHB Industries, the main supplier of body armor to U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq, got busted for embezzling millions, along with other shenanigans, all so he could afford tacky striped shirts, get his ex-wife a facelift, keep his 100 horses on vitamins, drive an armored car, and throw his daughter, Elizabeth, that mega bat mitzvah that brought 50 Cent, Tom Petty, Kenny G, Aerosmith, and the Eagles to the Rainbow Room in November 2005. Via the NY Post:

He allegedly reaped $185 million by selling DHB stock when he learned that 6,000 bullet-proof vests the company made were about to be recalled for being faulty and not able to block bullets.
That's right, 50, you'd better stock up on some new designer vests.

Another crime in all of this, of course, is inviting Kenny G and Eagles to a 13 year old's party. Even bigger infraction? Also via the Post: "In honor of [Aerosmith's] appearance, Brooks changed from a black leather suit into a magenta suede biker outfit covered with chains." If convicted, dude could get life in prison -- for profiteering and embarrassing poor Elizabeth like that, you totally deserve it, schmuck.


[50 photo via Tabloid Baby]

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I rap, rap, rap-a-rap-rap, uh rap rap rap, rap-a-rap-rap.

Posted by: Dougy at 10/30/07 10:36 AM | Reply
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Damn, that science is too tight.

Posted by: Professor Murder at 10/30/07 10:46 AM | Reply
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Dougy spitz hot fire.

And check out Fiddy' wearing that iced out cross to a Bat-Mitzvah.

What a shlamiel.

Posted by: The Spilken8r at 10/30/07 10:59 AM | Reply
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AHHHHHH SHYIT

Posted by: Erik at 10/30/07 11:42 AM | Reply
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Is 50 actually going to retire? What is his excuse if he doesn't?

Posted by: James at 10/30/07 12:02 PM | Reply
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And still, she looks mildly unimpressed.

Posted by: KingHater at 10/30/07 1:04 PM | Reply
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Wow, Dad going to jail... how coult that poor family have their development arrested like that?

Posted by: Greg at 10/30/07 1:12 PM | Reply
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Jeez, at least get the beastie boys, keep in in da jewish family, rather than mumbles the ventilated mc.

Posted by: Brian 586 at 10/30/07 2:43 PM | Reply
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"Another crime in all of this, of course, is inviting Kenny G and Eagles to a 13 year old's party."

I think inviting 50 Cent to the party is more of a criminal act than inviting Kenny G or the Eagles.

"Is 50 actually going to retire? What is his excuse if he doesn't?"

Sadly, that wanker flaked out on that deal even before his latest crap was released.

Posted by: tjxm at 10/30/07 11:37 PM | Reply
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one of my favourite mr. show skits of all time, dougy

thanks for making my day!

Posted by: evan at 10/31/07 6:17 AM | Reply
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a cracker shut the fuck up 50cent is best g-unit all day

Posted by: blackmike at 04/22/08 1:22 AM | Reply
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