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A rapper who boasted about committing unemployment fraud has agreed to a plea deal. According to the Department of Justice, 33-year-old Fontrell Antonio Baines, aka Nuke Bizzle, has confessed to illegally obtaining COVID relief funds in the summer of 2020. Baines is accused of bragging about the scheme in the music video for “EDD”—a reference to the Employment […]
One of the men named in the Fetty Wap federal drug case accepted a guilty plea that will see him face between five years to life in prison. New Jersey corrections officer Anthony Cyntje, one of the seven individuals named in the drug case, filed his plea deal on June 30, 2022. The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to […]
A New York City bodega owner is facing murder charges after he allegedly stabbed a customer to death during an altercation over potato chips. The New York Post reports the incident took place around 11:07 p.m. on Friday night at Blue Moon Convenience Store on Broadway near West 139th Street in Hamilton Heights. Jose Alba, 51, […]
Ricky Martin’s legal issues are piling up. Days after his ex-manager slapped him with a $3 million lawsuit, the 50-year-old Grammy winner was hit with a domestic violence restraining order. According to the Associated Press, the order was issued by a Puerto Rican judge on Friday, but authorities say they have yet to serve Martin. “Up until […]
A Florida man has been arrested after he posed as a Disney World employee and stole a $10,000 replica of the iconic Star Wars character R2-D2. ABC’s Central Florida affiliate WFTV reports David Emerson Proudfoot, 44, of Kissimmee, was arrested on May 31 after he snatched the droid from Disney World’s Swan Hotel in an attempt to get […]
A corporate lawyer for Apple Inc. is facing decades in prison for insider trading. According to the United States Justice Department, 48-year-old Gene Levoff is pleading guilty to participating in a five-year scheme in which he used insider information to generate six figures in illegal profits. Levoff reportedly joined the company back in 2008 and held several positions in […]
Convicted sexual predator R. Kelly has reportedly been placed on suicide watch. The singer’s lawyer made the claim Friday, just days after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. Attorney Jennifer Bonjean told CNN that her client had no intentions to harm himself, and placing him under suicide watch was a violation […]
Danny Brown has leveled sexual assault allegations against Ninja, one half of the South African hip-hop duo Die Antwoord. The 41-year-old artist made the allegations during a recent appearance on the 2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast, claiming the assault occurred during an afterparty for one of his shows in Paris. Brown told Tom Segura that Ninja had DM’d about possibly […]
Lil Reese has another legal case on his hands. According to online jail records, the Chicago-born rapper was arrested last month on aggravated assault charges. Reese—legal name Tavares Lamont Taylor—was booked into Harris County Jail on May 19 and initially denied bond. Records show he was booked just five days later on the same charge, but […]
Ariana Grande’s longtime stalker is back behind bars after reportedly breaking into the singer’s house on her 29th birthday. TMZ reports Aharon Brown, who last September was charged with a felony brandishing after he pulled up to Grande’s house and threatened her security with a hunting knife, was once again arrested on Sunday after allegedly breaking into the singer’s home while […]
