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A
rapper who bragged about defrauding the government’s unemployment
program in a music video has been arrested on federal charges of
carrying out the exact scheme he mentioned in his video, according to
the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Fontrell
Antonio Baines, 31, who goes by the stage name “Nuke Bizzle” was
arrested after applying for more than $1.2 million in jobless benefits
and using stolen identities in a scheme to fraudulently obtain
unemployment insurance benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Baines,
originally from Memphis Tennessee but who now resides in the Hollywood
Hills in California, was allegedly exploiting the Pandemic Unemployment
Assistance (PUA) provision of the CARES Act which the DOJ says is
designed to expand access to unemployment benefits to self-employed
workers, independent contractors, and others who would not otherwise be
eligible.
“Baines possessed and used debit cards pre-loaded with
unemployment benefits administered by the California Employment
Development Department (EDD),” the DOJ said in a statement announcing
Baines’ arrest. “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.”
The
DOJ says that during their investigation they discovered at least 92
debit cards that had more than $1.2 million in fraudulently obtained
benefits and that he had accessed more than $704,000 of those benefits
through cash withdrawal as well purchasing merchandise and other
services with them.
To make matters worse, Baines openly bragged about the fraudulent activity in one of his music videos.
Said
the DOJ: “Baines bragged about his ability to defraud the EDD in a
music video posted on YouTube and in postings to his Instagram account,
under the handles “nukebizzle1” and “nukebizzle23.” For example, Baines
appears in a music video called “EDD” in which he boasts about doing “my
swagger for EDD” and, holding up a stack of envelopes from EDD, getting
rich by “go[ing] to the bank with a stack of these” – presumably a
reference to the debit cards that come in the mail. A second rapper in
the video intones, “You gotta sell cocaine, I just file a claim.”
Baines
was subsequently arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sept. 23 and was
found with eight debit cards, seven of which were in the names of other
persons, according to the DOJ.
Baines
now faces three federal charges in the case -- 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.
Malcolm X allegedly met with the KKK in 1961 according to the new book, ‘The Dead are Rising: The Life of Malcolm X’
This week, a shocking new revelation was made that in 1961 Malcolm X discussed
an unlikely truce with the Ku Klux Klan which proposed the white
supremacist hate group helping to carve out a “separate state” for Black
Americans.
According to The Times,
an account of the meeting is detailed in the new book ‘The Dead Are
Arising: The Life of Malcolm X’, which claims the civil rights leader
met with the Klansmen at a secret summit in Atlanta where they discussed
their shared opposition to racial integration.
circa
1962: American political activist and radical civil rights leader,
Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) standing at a podium during a rally of
African-American Muslims held in a Washington, DC arena. He is wearing a
formal jacket and a white bow-tie. (Photo by Richard Saunders/Hulton
Archive/Getty Images)
Details of the unlikely alliance emerged in a never-before-published interview with Jeremiah Shabazz,
a Nation of Islam minister who hosted the gathering at his
home. Although working at two extreme ends of the fight for racial
equality, the KKK reportedly invited the Nation of Islam to join forces
because they recognized both organizations were staunchly opposed to
school desegregation, which was gathering pace after the Supreme Court’s
decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
The narrative also suggests the Klan proposed an alliance with the Nation of Islam to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr.
who was leading the charge against the “evil” of segregation. Malcolm X
rejected King’s doctrine of nonviolence and instead argued for racial
separatism.
Malcolm X met with KKK leaders to discuss the creation of a black state, new book claims https://t.co/caDp8DlYiL
The
iconic civil rights activist joined the Nation of Islam while serving a
prison term in Massachusetts and in 1961 was sent to “meet with them
devils” at Shabazz’s home to speak to the KKK in the meeting which was
first approved by the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.
One
member of the Klan was to have tried to “break the ice” by berating the
Jews, whom he thought to be another common enemy. After this, Malcolm X
proposed “complete separation of the races” in which the KKK would
assist the Nation of Islam to acquire land for Black people to live in a
“separate state” as a form of reparations.
Allegedly, the Klan
also suggested that Nation members wear “purple robes” as a nod to the
KKK’s infamous white costumes. But ultimately, the meeting was
infiltrated by an FBI agent working undercover in the Klan.
