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On Friday (Feb. 8), it was reported that a G.O.O.D. Music “associate” had committed fraud using a forged Kanye West signature, walking away with an alleged $900,000 for a performance that wasn’t actually going to happen. It was later revealed that Malik Yusef is the alleged perpetrator behind the fraud, although he has since denied any […]
Jersey Shore‘s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino pleaded guilty to a tax fraud case in January 2018, and now he’s revealed that he’s ready to ready to serve his sentence. As TMZ reports, Sorrentino’s attorney Kristen Santillo confirmed that he’s turning himself in on Tuesday to start his eight-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Insituation in Otisville, New York. […]
According to Deadline, Leonardo DiCaprio secretly testified to a grand jury in Washington, D.C. as part of the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into a multibillion-dollar scandal involving “some of the highest members of the Malaysian government.” Even though DiCaprio isn’t deemed a target of the probe, he’s being considered a witness, given his relationship with financier […]
A year-long investigation has led to the Spanish government claiming that Shakira will face criminal tax fraud charges, Spanish newspaper El Pais reports. The 41-year-old Colombian singer was the subject of a probe that looked into whether she lived in Spain between 2011 and 2014 or not. Spanish law stipulates that if she spent a minimum of […]
It looks like Prakazrel “Pras” Michel is in some hot water. The ex-Fugees rapper and a former Justice Department official named George Higginbotham are being accused of taking part in a conspiracy to route millions of dollars, through multiple banks accounts they allegedly opened, to a Malaysian fugitive, prosecutors allege, per ABC News. Prosecutors are saying they did this in the […]
A group of 25 investors is taking legal action against T.I. after allegedly getting tricked into putting up $1.3 million for cryptocurrency backed by the rapper, according to TMZ. In August 2017, Tip and Atlanta-based businessman Ryan Felton announced the creation of FLiK Token with promises that seemed too good to be true. Felton claimed that one token would […]
It sounds like El-P isn’t too happy with Spotify. On Friday morning, a fan pointed out that someone had fraudulently uploaded their music to El-P’s verified Spotify page. The Run the Jewels member responded to the message in a series of tweets, claiming he has had to deal with these kinds of issues on a regular […]
