Rapper Arrested for $1.2M Job Benefits Scam After Bragging in Video

Rapper Arrested for $1.2M Job Benefits Scam After Bragging in Video
Rapper Arrested for $1.2M Job Benefits Scam After Bragging in Video

A Los Angeles rapper was arrested on federal charges of pilfering jobless benefits weeks after he released a song that boasted of getting rich under the same scheme, according to Daily Mail.

Fontrell Antonio Baines, a 31-year-old rapper the goes by the name ‘Nuke Bizzle,’ was arrested in Las Vegas on 23 September and charged with fraud, aggravated identity theft and interstate transport of stolen property.

Federal prosecutors said on Friday that Baines, a Memphis resident in Hollywood Hills, had fraudulently claimed more than $1.2 million in unemployment benefits, including the use of stolen identities.

According to a warrant affidavit, Baines boasted of his willingness to scam the California Employment Development Department (EDD) in a music video he released on September 10, titled EDD.

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