Rapper Scams $1.2 MILLION from Unemployment.....And Raps About It

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Nuke Bizzle is an up-and-coming rapper from Memphis Tennessee who resides in the Hollywood Hills and loves to flash his money on social media.

In a recently released song titled "EDD", Nuke Bizzle raps about how he got rich off of scamming EDD funds. Here are some of the lyrics:

“I just been swiping for EDD, go to the bank and get a stack of these. This here better than selling P’s. Ten cards that’s two hundred [?]. I got to shoutout to Donald Trump. I just might swipe me a lump sum.”

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/rapper-who-bragged-about-unemployment-benefits-scam-music-video-arrested-allegedly

Baines allegedly exploited the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) provision of the CARES Act, which is designed to expand access to unemployment benefits to self-employed workers, independent contractors, and others who would not otherwise be eligible.

According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, Baines possessed and used debit cards pre-loaded with unemployment benefits administered by the California Employment Development Department (EDD). The debit cards were issued in the names of third-parties, including identity theft victims. The applications for these debit cards listed addresses to which Baines had access in Beverly Hills and Koreatown.

Evidence gathered during the investigation established that at least 92 debit cards that had been pre-loaded with more than $1.2 million in fraudulently obtained benefits were mailed to these addresses, according to the affidavit. Baines and his co-schemers allegedly accessed more than $704,000 of these benefits through cash withdrawals, including in Las Vegas, as well as purchases of merchandise and services.

On September 23, Las Vegas police arrested Baines, who had in his possession eight debit cards, seven of which were in the names of other persons, the affidavit states.

The criminal complaint alleges three felony offenses – access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, and interstate transportation of stolen property. If convicted of all of these charges, Baines would face a statutory maximum sentence of 22 years in federal prison.

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