Rapper Nuke Bizzle, who bragged about stealing COVID-19 benefits, will plead guilty to fraud, firearms charges
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Rapper Nuke Bizzle has agreed to plead guilty to fraud and illegal firearms charges after he rapped about obtaining fraudulent COVID-19 unemployment benefits in a music video.
The Justice Department has announced that Tennessee rapper Fontrell Antonio Baines, a.k.a. Nuke Bizzle, will plead guilty to fraud and illegal firearms charges. (Kevin Dietsch) In the 2020 song called "EDD" after California's Employment Development Department, rapper Nuke Bizzle says, "I done got rich off of EDD." (Mykola Tys/SOPA Images/LightRocket ) Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for FOX Business and Fox News. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
"I gotta shoutout to Donald Trump. / I just might swipe me a lump sum," the rapper says in one verse.
Baines, 33, will plead guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon after he admitted to attempting to steal about $1.25 million in benefits by filing 92 fraudulent public unemployment assistance (PUA) claims with EDD through the 2020 CARES Act, according to the Justice Department.