69’s former rep cops plea in shoot fight
Brooklyn rapper Tekashi69’s former manager took a timeserved plea deal on Monday to settle charges for his role in a Midtown restaurant brawl in which a shot was fired.
Kifano Jordan, 36, was in Manhattan Supreme Court to face assault and weapons counts stemming from the Oct. 26 shooting inside Philippe’s on E. 60th St. between Madison and Park Aves., where a brawl broke out among members of Tekashi’s entourage and a shot was fired by one of the performer’s security guards, a retired cop.
Jordan (inset), aka Shotti, was accused of being the main instigator.
“(Jordan) struck a private security guard in the head with a chair after being refused entry into a restaurant where a business meeting was to occur,” prosecutor Gilbert Rein said at his arraignment. He also ordered another man “to advance upon and strike the private security guards.”
On Monday, Jordan pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in exchange for a sentence of time served because he’s facing “substantial” time in a separate federal case, according to prosecutors.
After his bust in the state case, he was arrested by the feds along with Tekashi69, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez.
Jordan and Hernandez had a falling out around the time they and nine other alleged gangbangers were busted by the FBI for robberies, shootings and other crimes.
Jordan copped to firearm possession in furtherance of a crime and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime. He admitted to a gunpoint robbery on W. 40th St. in the lobby of a building on April 3. Federal prosecutors said Hernandez was filming the robbery from an SUV outside.
Jordan faces up to 15 years in prison in the federal case, prosecutors said. His attorney could not be reached for comment.