Detroit Rapper Jaiswan & 4 Others Charged In $63 Million Check Fraud Scheme

Jaiswan and 4 Others Charged In $63 Million Check Fraud Scheme

Four suspects including popular rapper Jaiswan from Metro Detroit have been charged in connection to a $63 million scheme involving stealing checks from the mail and selling them online.

Rapper Jaiswan, full name Williams, of Rochester Hills, alongside Dequan Foreman, 30, of Eastpointe, Vanessa Hargrove, 39, of Detroit, and Crystal Jenkins, 31, of Detroit, were all charged with conspiracy to aid and abet bank and wire fraud.

According to the US Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Michigan, Hargrove and Jenkins were United States Postal Service employees who allegedly diverted and stole checks and other negotiable items from the mail, including a high volume of tax refund checks issued by the U.S. Treasury.

 

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Investigators say the 31-year-old Detroit rapper and Foreman were behind the online sales used to sell the checks. In the released statement, postal employees Hargrove and Jenkins allegedly provide the stolen checks to Williams and Foreman in exchange for payments.

Detroit rapper Jaiswan & 4 others charged in $63 million check fraud scheme

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The “Shoulda Knew” crooner and Foreman would take those checks and market them for sale via Telegram Messenger, a cloud-based, cross-platform instant messaging application. Prices varied based on the face-value of the checks, per Fox2Detroit.

“I feel like if you are involved in a 63-million-dollar fraud we shouldn’t have any photo of you online doing a money spread,” someone commented on the news.

According to investigators, one of the Telegram channels, named ‘Whole Foods Slipsss,’ was used to advertise high-dollar checks, while another channel, named ‘Uber Eats Slips,’ advertised lower-dollar checks.

‘Slips’ is described as a term commonly used in these schemes to refer to stolen checks. Transactions were completed off-platform using a variety of electronic payment systems. Buyers of these checks would then attempt to fraudulently cash them using different methods.

If convicted of conspiracy, the defendants face up to 30 years in prison. The rapper also faces charges for money laundering for activities dating back to October 2022, and for millions of dollars of fraudulent pandemic unemployment insurance benefit claims submitted between August and December 2020.