So much for that EDD swagger -- a rapper who bragged in a music video about getting rich with pandemic assistance funds faces several years in federal prison for fraud.
A Memphis rapper who boasted in a YouTube music video that he used pandemic-related unemployment benefits fraud to get rich has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud and firearms charges, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Fontrell Antonio Baines, 33, aka"Nuke Bizzle," agreed to plead guilty one count of mail fraud and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. He is expected to enter his guilty plea in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles soon.
Baines admitted in his plea agreement to exploiting the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance provisions of the CARES Acts between July and September of 2020, using stolen identities to apply for unemployment benefits that he had sent to addresses in Beverly Hills and Koreatown.
Baines admitted to filing 92 fraudulent claims with EDD, attempting to defraud the U.S. Treasury of more than $1.3 million. The actual losses totaled at least $704,760, prosecutors said. Prosecutors say Baines also admitted to illegally possessing a semi-automatic pistol with 14 rounds of ammunition at the Hollywood Hills home he lived in during October of 2020. Due to a 2011 conviction in Tennessee for unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and a 2014 conviction in Nevada federal court for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Baines is prohibited from possessing a firearm..
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