Nuke Bizzle was doing everything he rapped about.
And by everything, we don't mean selling drugs or committing violent crimes. We mean committing unemployment fraud.
Nuke dropped a track and video a couple of years back in which he bragged about finessing California's Employment Development Department.
"Unemployment so sweet we had 1.5 land this week," Bizzle rapped. "You gotta sell cocaine, I can just file a claim."
That caught the attention of the authorities who searched his home and found eight EDD debit cards in his possession and only one with his name on it. They eventually uncovered 92 pre-loaded EDD cards with over a million dollars on them. They also alleged Bizzle and his co-conspirators had already made $704K on the scam.
Bizzly was found guilty of defrauding the state's EDD program. This week he was sentenced to 77 months.
Fontrell Baines, also known by his rap name "Nuke Bizzle" was sentenced to 77 months in jail for defrauding the EDD program, which he bragged about in a music video. https://t.co/ZaexEnVIDx
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