{"id":73509,"date":"2022-07-06T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rapper-who-bragged-in-music-video-about-getting-rich-from-edd-fraud-agrees-to-plea-deal"},"modified":"2022-10-09T13:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T13:07:45","slug":"rapper-who-bragged-in-music-video-about-getting-rich-from-edd-fraud-agrees-to-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rapper-who-bragged-in-music-video-about-getting-rich-from-edd-fraud-agrees-to-plea-deal","title":{"rendered":"Rapper who bragged in music video about getting rich from EDD fraud agrees to plea deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Los Angeles: The Rundown (July 6 AM Edition) 01:44 A Memphis rapper who boasted in a YouTube music video that he used pandemic-related unemployment benefits fraud to get rich has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud and firearms charges, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Fontrell Antonio Baines, 33, aka &#8220;Nuke Bizzle,&#8221; agreed to plead guilty one count of mail fraud and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. He is expected to enter his guilty plea in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles soon. Rapper Nuke Bizzle appears in a music video. September 2020. (credit: YouTube) According to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint in the case, Baines posted a music video on YouTube and Instagram called &#8220;EDD,&#8221; in which he boasts about doing &#8220;my swagger for EDD&#8221; and holding up a stack of EDD envelopes, rapping about getting rich by &#8220;go to the bank with a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Memphis rapper who boasted in a YouTube music video that he used pandemic-related unemployment benefits fraud to get rich has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud and firearms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,19,12,31],"class_list":["post-73509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-personal-finance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}