Suge att’y raps

Witness-bribe charges hit 2 in slay-by-car case

TWO OF Suge Knight’s defense lawyers were charged with multiple counts of felony conspiracy Monday related to the music mogul’s pending murder case.

Lawyers Thaddeus Culpepper and Matthew Fletcher appeared in Los Angeles County Superior Court to receive the unsealed indictment and agree to return for arraignment on April 16.

In the 13-page indictment obtained by the Daily News, the grand jury cited evidence the men conspired to bribe witnesses and persuade them to commit perjury on Knight’s behalf.

Prosecutors claim Knight (inset) intentionally mowed down two men in a Compton, Calif., parking lot with his truck on Jan. 29, 2015 — killing local businessman and father Terry Carter and badly injuring Cle (Bone) Sloan.

In one instance, Fletcher was on a jail telephone call with Knight on March 16, 2015, and allegedly told him a witness “would say that there were guns at the murder scene and they would give (him) money for his testimony,” according to the indictment.

Fletcher declined to comment Monday and referred questions to his lawyer Mark Geragos.

No longer representing Knight, Fletcher previously told The News he never paid any witnesses or discussed anything “illegal” with the former head of Death Row Records.

Fletcher has also questioned the legality of authorities listening in on his conversations with Knight.

The new indictment further claimed Culpepper met a man at a restaurant in June 2016 after the man suggested “he would need a few dollars” to act as a witness for the defense and “do whatever.” Unbeknownst to Culpepper, the man was an informant for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The indictment charges Culpepper and Fletcher with one count each of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit subornation of perjury, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and accessory after the fact. Culpepper also faces two additional conspiracy charges, while Fletcher is charged with one additional count perjury. “These allegations are ridiculous,” Culpepper of told The News after appearing in court Monday. “It’s really just obstruction of justice in that they are attacking (Knight’s) attorney with things they know are dubious,” he said.

“Their only avenue here is just harassment and discrediting. It was what we anticipated.”

Both Fletcher and Culpepper were arrested in January and released without charges.

Knight, 52, has pleaded not guilty in his murder case and is due to stand trial next month.

Prosecutors say Knight was upset with his depiction in the film “Straight Outta Compton” and targeted the two men — Sloan was working security on the production — after a dispute in the parking lot of Tam’s Burgers in Compton.

Knight has claimed he was the victim of an armed ambush and hit the gas to escape.

Culpepper said Monday he intends to move ahead with his representation of Knight.