Jimmy Henchman has maintained his innocence following a life sentence for a murder-for-hire plot but unfortunately, the jury didn’t see it the same way. According to Billboard, Jimmy Henchman’s bid to appeal his conviction has been denied. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal decided that his sentence should stay.

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Henchman was convicted for the murder of 50 Cent and G-Unit affiliate Lodi Mack in retaliation for assaulting his then 14-year-old son. Lodi Mack and Tony Yayo were both involved in the assault against Henchman’s kid and were later convicted. Henchman hired a crew to murder Lodi Mack weeks after his release from prison on the assault conviction. Lodi Mack was murdered in 2009 in the Bronx.

Henchman was already sentenced to two life sentences for a separate drug and gun convictions but this particular case went through a few trials. The first trial concluded with a hung jury before a second trial commenced. That one ended with a conviction and a life sentence but it would later be determined that the judge made a mistake at one point. The third trial ended with a conviction for Henchman as well as a life sentence. His lawyers previously argued that the witnesses to testified against Henchman were only trying to cut years off of their own sentences. 

He’s been speaking about his new ABC litigation series For Life while on his intense promotion run recently, and during a recent sit-down with Cigar Talk, 50 Cent addressed reported false allegations against him. For years, Fif has been on the receiving end of accusations that he’s a government informant who snitched on Jimmy Henchman. There was alleged documentation floating around, but TMZ issued a report stating that their law enforcement sources confirmed that it was fake paperwork.

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Fif has adamantly denied that he’s even snitched on anyone, and he once again defended his honor on Cigar Talk. He spoke about the late 1980s and early 1990s as a time when street code was firm. “That’s the era where n*ggas get knocked and they just go, ‘Give me my time. I don’t give a f*ck what you talkin’ ’bout,'” Fif said. “They ain’t tellin’ on nobody, ’cause if you tellin’, you can’t even look forward to going home. Where you going after you get out? The neighborhood ain’t accepting that. ‘B*tch ass n*gga, we heard you a rat.'”

Yet, there are also times when people are pegged to be informants when they truly aren’t. “They say these things when they want to tell—even for me personally, they tried to attack my character. They say, ‘He a rat, or he this and that,’” 50 Cent continued. “All you gotta do is ask them who I told on. I ain’t never told on no n*gga in my life. In the Preme [Kenneth McGriff] situation, it’ll tell you who told on him. My name ain’t in that case, but they talking ’bout that I needed an order of protection. Why it feels like I’m the bully out here, then?… You needed protection, n*gga. And your protection gone. That’s the truth.”

50 Cent said that when there are beefs or “disputes with younger artists” they don’t know what ammunition to use against him, so they take from what they’ve heard and run with it. “You heard it when Meek [Mill] was talkin’ sh*t and you heard it with French [Montana]. I don’t take offense to it when they doin’ it, because I know what they doin’. I take offense to where it started. You never see—let Jimmy Henchman tell you I’m a snitch… Jimmy been snitchin’ since 1942.” Watch his full interview with Cigar Talk below.