Rapper who bragged about getting rich off unemployment benefits in music video arrested for $1.2 million scheme, federal prosecutors say
Apparently if he had not bragged, nobody would have noticed.
(From Yahoo News)
Los Angeles-based Rapper Nuke Bizzle who bragged about making money off of unemployment benefits was arrested for “carrying out” a scheme by “fraudulently applying” for over $1.2 million in jobless benefits using stolen identities, federal prosecutors said Friday.
According to a Justice Department press release, the rapper, identified as 31-year-old Fontrell Antonio Baines Memphis, Tennessee, “exploited” California’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, a provision of the federal CARES Act designed to provide unemployment benefits to those eligible.
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