💰 Rapper who boasted he ‘got rich’ off covid relief sentenced to prison

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The lyrics include: “I got rich off E.D.D.,” “10 cards swiping 10k a day,” and “You got to sell cocaine, I can just file a claim.”Shortly after the music video appeared on YouTube, it was forwarded by a special agent at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General to a branch chief in the office’s data science team, who was asked to identify the rapper.Federal agents said the music video’s description was edited in October 2020, around the same time special agents filed their criminal complaint against Baines, to include the disclaimer “***THIS VIDEO WAS CREATED WITH PROPS AND WAS MADE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES***.”The rapper’s federal prison sentence was also related to criminal charges of drug trafficking in January 2020 and illegal firearms possession in October 2020, to which Baines pleaded guilty to both also.When I found out how much money they were getting I felt played, and I started just taking the cards myself and telling them they never made it,” Baines wrote in a letter to the judge.The PUA expanded unemployment to individuals who don’t normally qualify for the benefit — self-employed, independent contractors, freelancers and gig workers.The total scope of fraud from federal pandemic-related relief initiatives is unknown, but earlier this year a top watchdog for the Labor Department estimated “at least” $163 billion may have been claimed in unemployment-related “overpayments,” a projection that includes wrongly paid sums as well as “significant” benefits obtained by malicious actors."

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