Rap impostor accused of scamming inns sentenced to jail

A Florida gentleman who claimed to do the job in the rap field and to have ties to the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan in a scheme to scam lodge stays and luxurious providers was sentenced Monday to serve seven a long time in federal prison.

Aaron Barnes-Burpo, 29, of Crestview, Florida, was also requested to pay practically $300,000 in restitution to 19 companies and to provide three yrs supervised release following his prison term, in accordance to on-line court documents. He before pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

A next guy who also pleaded responsible in the scheme, 52-yr-aged Walker Washington of Augusta, Georgia, is awaiting sentencing.

Barnes-Burpo and Washington admitted that they falsely claimed to be affiliated with the Roc Country generation firm and the Wu-Tang Clan and used fraudulent and stolen credit cards to rent limousines, defraud inns, caterers and production studios in multiple metropolitan areas as early as September 2019, prosecutors reported in a information launch Monday.

Team at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Augusta turned suspicious on Nov. 21, 2019, and notified the FBI and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Business, the launch claims.

“For numerous months, these adult males defrauded multiple enterprises by posing as popular musical artists and their retinue,” Acting U.S. Lawyer David Estes explained in the launch. “Thanks to an notify lodge clerk, their phony strike parade arrived to an abrupt halt.”