A Tennessee rapper who boasted about committing Covid-19 relief fraud in a music video has been sentenced to over six years in prison.
about committing Covid-19 relief fraud in a music video was sentenced to over six years in prison Wednesday, prosecutors said.
Fontrell Antonio Baines, of Memphis, who goes by “Nuke Bizzle,” stole more than $700,000 in Covid-19 unemployment benefits in a scheme in which other people’s names or stolen identities were used, prosecutors said.
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