Posted on October 20, 2020

Rapper Busted After Bragging About Defrauding Government in Music Video

Jackie Salo, New York Post, October 18, 2020

A blowhard rapper has been busted in Los Angeles after rapping in a music video about “getting rich” by fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 unemployment benefits, federal prosecutors said.

Fontrell Antonio Baines, 31, who goes by the stage name “Nuke Bizzle,” was arrested Friday for applying for more than $1.2 million in COVID-19 jobless relief funds in a scheme using stolen identities, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.

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In posts on Instagram, the rapper boasted repeatedly about his ability to defraud California’s Employment Development Department.

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“Unemployment so sweet. We had 1.5 land this week,” Baines said in the video, while another rapper chimes in, “You gotta sell cocaine, I can just file a claim.”

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