New York Daily News

69’s former rep cops plea in shoot fight

- BY SHAYNA JACOBS

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.

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