Lil Wayne, Marshmello, and different entertainers have been revealed to have abused pandemic grants numbering into the tens of millions, as an alternative utilizing the funds to splurge on inns, journeys, and different offenses. Amongst these named within the new report, the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant funds have been reportedly misused by Rae Sremmurd, Chris Brown, and extra.
In a brand new report from Enterprise Insider, it was revealed that Lil Wayne, Marshello, Chris Brown, and members of the Alice In Chains band all acquired funds from the pandemic-era Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) meant to supplant the careers of working musicians and the venues they carry out in whereas a lot of the nation and world contended with the rise of the COVID-19 virus.
Lil Wayne acquired $8.9 million in SVOG funds, spending $1.3 million on personal chartered flights and over $450,000 on clothes and different miscellaneous objects. The report additionally confirmed that the New Orleans star spent over $175,000 on bills for a music competition associated to his GKUA hashish model, and garments for artists on his Younger Cash file label. Additional, $15,000 in grant funds have been used on flights and inns for ladies with free connections to the rapper’s touring operation, one among which was additionally reported to be an grownup actress.
The SVOG was touted by members of Congress as a way to maintain venues afloat and assist maintain musicians and their workers financially complete as touring was all however shut down for a lot of throughout the peak of the pandemic.
The outlet got here to uncover that past Wayne, Chris Brown used his $10 million in SVOG grant funds to pay for a birthday celebration that approached $80,000 in prices. He additionally pocketed $5.1 million of the SVOG funds personally by the use of his firm, CBE Touring. Brown additionally used $24,000 of the grant to pay for a tour bus from the USA to Tulum, Mexico in 2020 for a monthlong keep for him and his crew however didn’t carry out within the resort city.
Different names talked about within the Enterprise Insider report embrace Marshmello, who acquired $9.9 million in SVOG funds and reportedly pocketed all of it. Rae Sremmurd’s Sreem Touring was given $7.7 million, which was paid to Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi.
Representatives for the artists in query declined to touch upon the findings of the report. As for any ramifications, the federal government has gotten again a number of the misused funds from Chris Brown. It wasn’t acknowledged if officers would go after the opposite people named.
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