Rapper Walking Bankroll Arrested for $7.9M Tax Fraud

0:00On April 4th, South Florida rapper walking bankroll, real name David Edmond, got nabbed at Miami-Opa-Loka executive airport trying to hop a private. Jet to St. Martin. Federal charges hit him for running a $7.9 million tax fraud ring, filing nearly 450 fake federal returns. He pulled it off by setting up a phony company called Barnes and Associates Collection to sneak into Locate PLUS, a database meant only for legit businesses. From there, he grabbed social security numbers from over 1,000 people through 200 heavy searches, then used fake emails, IDs, and IP. Tricks to file those bogus claims. Investigators linked him straight through his walking bankroll ZO-80 Facebook page full of flexes on private jets and luxury whips while clowning. Broke folks. They also pulled driver's licenses, passports, and data lists from his phones. Having an earlier border check at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood after a Dominican Republic trip,

1:02agents caught him Tuesday night with $7,650 cash and stacks of jewelry. Thursday, a Miami federal judge set him $600,000 in surety bonds, banned him from airports, seaports, tax sites online, and even, touching his Alabama property for loans or sales. This ain't his first rodeo back. In 2015, he did time serve for identity theft from a bank of America scam. If convicted now on false claims against the U.S., he's staring it up to five years federal time, reminding us frauds that dead-end hustle no matter how. Flashy the roll.