Hushpuppi, a popular Instagram personality, has been charged again after US authorities filed court records detailing how he committed fraud and laundered over $400k while incarcerated.
On March 16, 2022, US prosecutors presented documents to the United States District Court of California with new evidence accusing HushPuppi of perpetrating fraud and money laundering in a federal jail facility in the United States.
According to court records, Hushpuppi engaged in the acquisition and washing of Economic Impact Payment debit cards obtained fraudulently from stolen data of US citizens and residents while incarcerated in a federal prison in the United States.
In a court filing, US prosecutors stated that inmates have restricted access to phone calls, video calls, the internet, and computers, but that they are not monitored since inmates have a right to privacy. Hushpuppi, like the other detainees, was granted access.
However, security authorities at a US Federal penitentiary facility detected Hushpuppi using the internet more frequently between the 28th of January and the 4th of March 2022. They got an order to record Hushpuppi’s activities after learning that he had been arrested for internet-related crimes. For him, a special system was set up, and his activities were logged for seven days.
Hushpuppi was discovered to be buying EIP debit cards from StimulusCard (“https://stimuluscard.com/”), an underground cyber criminal marketplace. Hushpuppi purchased 58 EIP debit cards with a total value of $429,800 on the site while being recorded and laundered the money through one AJ.
