YouTube star Omi in a Hellcat indicted in $30 million TV piracy scam

[ChaliHo]

A famous New Jersey YouTuber was arrested by the FBI and charged in one of the largest illegal TV pirating rings ever.

Known to his over 800,000 Youtube followers as Omi in a Hellcat for his high-end luxury vehicles collection, Bill Omar Carrasquillo, 34 is charged with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, tax evasion and fraud for his illegal online streaming service websites.

Partners Jesse Gonzales, 42, of Pico Rivera, California, and Michael Barone, 36, of Richmond Hill, New York, have also been charged.

According to the 69-page, 62-count indictment, the partners ran an illegal streaming service from 2016 to 2019 — at various times called Reboot, Gears TV, Reloaded and Gears Reloaded — that offered subscribers all-inclusive access to content from the likes of Comcast, Verizon FiOS, and DirectTV, HBO and others for as low as $15 a month.

Prosecutors allege they collected over $30 million in subscription fees, which they tried to hide by distributing to various apps and bank accounts.

Carasquillo, who live-streamed his arrest Tuesday, claims that he paid subscription fees for all of the subscriptions and content services that he later broadcast out to his thousands of subscribers.



In November of 2019, Carrasquillo’s home was raided by federal agents, who seized $35 million in assets and 57 luxury cars, including Lamborghinis, Bentleys and Rolls Royces.

“They came back for things they alleged I did. The copyright infringement. I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong, obviously,” he told FOX 29 outside of his home in Swedesboro New Jersey on Wednesday, just a day after his arrest. “We’re going to have our day in court now.”

He said he doesn’t believe he’s “completely innocent,” saying “Ignorance is not an excuse for the law.”

“I found a loophole, I ran through it and I did great. There are other colleagues in the same business I was in and they never got in trouble with the FBI,” he told FOX 29.

Bradley S. Benavides, acting head of the FBI’s Philadelphia office told The Philadelphia Inquirer, “You can’t just go and monetize someone else’s copyrighted content with impunity.”

“Theft is theft, and if you’re going to willfully steal another party’s intellectual property, the FBI stands ready to step in and shut you down,” he said.

Donte Mills, Carrasquillo’s lawyer, told The Inquirer Wednesday that at the time, there was no law explicitly prohibiting how it operated.

“There were no regulations when he did it,” Mills told the paper. “We will prove the charges he received do not apply to his conduct.”

Carrasquillo said that the arrest was a “relief.”

“I didn’t know what was going on for two years. No answers, no nothing,” he said.

“So finally, you know, I get to not be depressed, not be stressed out anymore. Now I’ll get my day in court.”

Carrasquillo seems to be prepared to go to prison, according to his videos on YouTube in which he openly discusses his legal troubles.

“You gotta be humble in victory and humble in defeat,” he said in one video after the 2019 FBI raid. “I’m gonna do a couple of years off of this. I’m going to go to jail for a couple of years.”


https://nypost.com/2021/09/23/omi-in...v-piracy-scam/

[gmenfan40]

Never heard of her...

[JayJ350]

Social media celebrities always turn out to be scumbags it seems, at least this type of dude who tries to flex chit all the time.

[Gringo12]

If he's smart he will have 15 mil of that 30 into crypto sitting in a cold storage and then when he gets out of prison in 4 years, leave the country and cash out your 15 mil. But by the looks of him Id say nah

[ChaliHo]

Social media celebrities always turn out to be scumbags it seems, at least this type of dude who tries to flex chit all the time.

Especially those family or mommy vloggers.

[bfdehewdbyywhn]

that guy is living large

[Sicknotz]

seems a pretty chill guy tbh, taking it in his stride.

PS is this for 2019? if so why we talking about it now?

[AlwaysFocus]

If he's smart he will have 15 mil of that 30 into crypto sitting in a cold storage and then when he gets out of prison in 4 years, leave the country and cash out your 15 mil. But by the looks of him Id say nah

just lol if you think they wouldnt be able to take that too

[JuceSpringsteen]

Needs to put down the hot pockets.

[CellyTech]

If he's smart he will have 15 mil of that 30 into crypto sitting in a cold storage and then when he gets out of prison in 4 years, leave the country and cash out your 15 mil. But by the looks of him Id say nah

What do you think they mean when they said "various apps and bank accounts"

[JPF82]

I watched a few of his videos a year or so ago.

Legit this dude woke up and vlog'ed about buying a new car, so he went and got it. Did it with a few McLaren's, Lambos, Hellcats and Hellcat variants.......musta been nice.

[JPF82]

What do you think they mean when they said "various apps and bank accounts"

Probably cashapp and apple pay and other chit where you can transfer funds and "pay bills". So customers would use cashapp and not an actual paid website/service.

[ChaliHo]

seems a pretty chill guy tbh, taking it in his stride.

PS is this for 2019? if so why we talking about it now?

most crooks are pretty chill guys.

The news report is from a few days ago, I think the Feds only move when they have secure evidence, one of his fellow fraud partners likely bit the cheese.

[Beast92]

Should have reached out to me and he would of gotten 7M in cash here in Mexico for his 15M in assets

Thats buying freedom, but no, he stayed in the US like the cuck bitch he is

[Procta]

who

[MrBourbon]

Carasquillo, who live-streamed his arrest

Fukn lmao.

WHUTS GOIN ON YouTube Fam it's your boy out here. The feds are kicking down my door right now, don't forget to like and subscribe. If anyone in the chat's a lawyer hit me up.

[Jms89]

Can't stand youtubers in general, but especially car vloggers.