This YouTuber's Videos Got Him 5 Years in Prison

on May 16 2019 YouTuber omena Hellcat uploaded his first video titled payday at reloaded construction the Vlog ends with a very deep message always remember live life the way you want to live it you want to get one chance at this one shot at Life One Chance one shot that's it any mistake that you make it's done you're done little did Omi know starting this YouTube channel could have been the one mistake that would ultimately land him in federal prison that very first video that Omi posted got 60 000 views in the first three days the video shows Omar stepping out of his Mansion walking down his long driveway with more than 15 all-white cars parked in it and telling the viewers about his entrepreneurial Endeavors from there he drives to his first nightclub that he owns where they are doing renovations then he goes to a second nightclub where they just made the final touches before opening Omi continued to post Vlogs that started with motivational messages about life you have one thing an advantage over a lot of people you're free you're young and you're healthy no excuses stop trying to keep up with everybody stop going out buying Balenciaga typically the middle of his videos would be him tending to his businesses buying expensive clothes jewelry new cars vintage cars tour buses and even houses for a wildly successful man he was relatable down to earth and kind far from the narcissistic Rich we typically see on the internet within two months he reached 100 000 subscribers by the end of summer 2019 he had 300 000 subscribers but every time he was asked about how he obtained his wealth his answers were extremely vague what do I do for a living started off as an app developer started um as an app developer by the way drink water but as Omi spent more time showcasing his lifestyle on the internet and being more open about how he made his money he caught the attention of the FBI and on November 20th 2019 just six months after his first video they raided his home this case File shows 88 Lines of personal property that the federal government seized from Omi over the next couple of months the FBI confiscated 5 million eight hundred seventy five thousand dollars 58 Vehicles including a 2020 Lamborghini Huracan a 2019 Lamborghini Aventador and a 2019 Audi A seven they also took 21 properties including buildings in downtown Philadelphia and mansions in the suburbs you would think that in a situation as serious as this Omi would keep quiet but as soon as this happened he went live on YouTube to tell his fans about the raid at first he thought the feds were after him for tax evasion which was partially true and Omi claimed that he was innocent but it wasn't just taxes that the feds were worried about bro when I tell you they took everything they took every SD card every camera um every television in my house houses IPTV is a great area you know the copyright X hasn't been hasn't been updated since the 1960s and you know I hit I hit a great area and exploited it and they just didn't like it Omi thought he had found a loophole in the U.S copyright law and was exploiting it now if at this point you're feeling extremely confused as to how this guy even got into this situation in the first place this is exactly how his hundreds of thousands of fans felt ironically once the feds raided him that's when Omi started opening up about exactly how he made his fortune but first a word from today's sponsor bespoke post is a monthly membership club delivering a box of awesome top shelf goods from under the radar Brands it's free to join and you can skip a month or cancel at any time ninety percent of the products come from small Brands many of which are based right here in the USA every month they introduce their members to cool new products outdoor gear barware home and kitchen goods clothing and more based on a preference quiz they fill out every box of awesome contains about seventy dollars worth of goods inside but only costs you a fraction of the value 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copyrighted content to thousands of their own subscribers who could then stream or play back content this piracy scheme all started on Kodi Cody is essentially just a media player that's available on any device people use Kodi to watch videos podcasts movies play games listen to music Etc however Kodi doesn't make its own content it's an open source streaming platform that anyone can make apps on because of this it's mostly known for people who watch pirated or stolen content most people use Kodi on Amazon Fire Sticks they would go on the Kodi app install all their favorite networks and stream content for free but it's not that easy a lot of these add-ons can be riddled with malware or just end up being bogus apps that don't work or stream low quality content which leads to people Googling things like best Kodi add-ons for free and searching through blogs to find out what apps are the most trusted like the crew or daddy live not only does researching and installing these apps take a little bit of technical skill it also is just a lot of work around 2016 Omi was exposed to this and saw a huge opportunity Omi would buy Amazon Fire Sticks for forty dollars jailbreak them or install all the best and most trusted apps onto Kodi then resell them for about 120 to 150 to his customers essentially giving customers cable TV for a one-time fee the reason we know this is because he had no problem telling people his scheme and back when Cody was popping okay I was one of the first ones doing Kodi sticks and that's how I started making a lot of money buying these boxes from Amazon already pre-loaded and just reselling them for more money I'll buy them for fifty dollars sell them for 120 150. now I was selling thousands of Fire Sticks I'm talking about a lot of Fire Sticks in 2016 Omi said that he made one million dollars flipping Fire Sticks that gave him enough money to fund his next piracy Venture which would make him tens of millions of dollars by this point Omar was kind of a regular in the online piracy Community which is surprisingly large I was a negative person in Cody because I was like a wrestler there was good guys and they were bad guys I was a bad guy because that's how I got people's attention he was known by the username Target in 1080P his YouTube channel was originally named Target in 1080P and featured videos of him discussing things in the IPTV space one particular man named Dexter took a liking to him Dexter was a developer and Omi was the financial backbone together they made an app for Cody called gears TV which was inspired by his favorite video game Gears of War gears TV was omi's all-in-one digital content package with some of your favorite shows like Game of Thrones Better Call Saul Twin Peaks all of the major networks like ABC ESPN and Fox channels that are only shown in the UK and Canada and even more premium packages like NFL Sunday Ticket gears TV provided all of that content in 1080P resolution for as low as 15 per month if someone were to pay for regular cable it could cost them anywhere from 60 to 200 per month but how is he able to do this essentially what Omi did was purchase cable subscriptions from Comcast Spectrum Verizon DirecTV and Frontier Communications these cable subscriptions come with a box that contains encrypted media Omi purchased decoders from China to remove the encryption then capture cards to download the content and send it to a server where it would be redistributed over the internet to his subscribers gears TV was cheap and provided way more value and content than any cable company could ever compete with and word spreads fast in the IPTV Community Omi went from making five thousand dollars per week to four hundred thousand dollars per week in just a few months the indictment claims that in total the defendants received more than 30 million dollars in subscriber fees Omi said he was still living in the hood of Philly at this point and nobody knew the kind of money he was raking in his first purchase was a 2016 Camaro SS 50th Edition his dream car keep in mind gears TV was no small operation they had large servers because customer service representatives and the government did have their eye on these schemes as it got more popular the monthly price increased which pissed off customers as their fifteen dollars per month turned into 20 then 30 then 40 dollars getting closer and closer to regular cable prices Omi sold his app to a private investment company in 2018 for a whopping 40 million dollars this was perhaps his most genius move because not too long after gears TV shut down but it did not stop there Omi used his large payout and expertise to build a new and improved app called reloaded TV this was everything gears was and more with a way better interface and higher quality content reloaded very quickly became one of the biggest apps in the IPTV space because of its great user interface and reliability it's unclear what exactly happened to reloaded TV seems like it wasn't around for very long because in 2019 Omar abandoned the Target in 1080P name and changed it to Omi in a Hellcat and he stopped talking about the IPTV space as a whole goal he claims he knew the industry was dying and the feds were cracking down on other apps similar to reloaded now is it possible that omi's YouTube channel alerted the FBI not necessarily but it didn't help his case anyone who was in the business of Distributing media knows there are others trying to steal it but omi's YouTube channel promoting his own brand and attaching a face to the scheme just made it that much easier to identify the perpetrator bragging and flaunting his wealth could have pissed off authorities and yeah they are human maybe they did want to put him in his place a little bit maybe they were harsher on him than others to make an example out of him in one Vlog Omi found out that federal agents boarded his flight to the Dominican Republic to make sure he wasn't trying to flee the country but you have to remember that all of the information I just gave you his audience didn't know about they had no idea why the FBI was after him they just knew Omi had to restart his life please continue to support this channel you want to stay strong we want to try to beat this they broke me they broke one of the strongest people I know which is me he broke me but no one got me to this position only put me start taking responsibility for your actions on these YouTube channel after the raid became dedicated to him trying to regain his wealth start new businesses buy more cars all while the feds were watching him he started a printing company slash merch brand under the name reloaded where he made and sold all different types of clothing out of a room in his house keep in mind he had his construction business and various other side hustles that kept him paid plus it's not like the feds emptied his bank accounts entirely Omi kept saying he was broke but his version of broke is going from tens of millions to maybe just a few Millions but it wouldn't be long before the FBI came back the whole FBI situation it seems like they're trying to tack on money laundering charges tax evasion charges from 2016 to 2018 when Omi made tens of millions of dollars he admits that he did not pay his taxes however he had a reason he claims that the accountant he hired told him that she was CPA certified when she wasn't and that she never paid his taxes the right way but he was more than willing to pay the Millions owed however once he finally got together the money to pay his taxes it was stolen from him he posted a video titled I got robbed for a million dollars in which he claims that he took nine hundred twenty thousand dollars out of the bank in cash to give to his accountant he left for Dallas for two days and while he was gone someone cut the power off from his house and stole the cash some electronics and his girlfriend's purses the funny part is a lot of his own fans were suspicious it seemed like Omi was trying to stash a million dollars and throw off the feds by setting up a robbery sorry IRS I can't pay my taxes because somebody stole my money and here's my YouTube video to prove it plus you have to think why would anyone bother stealing Xboxes and TVs when you have a million dollars cash conveniently this video was posted on the same day that Omi released his very first sneaker the Omi zeros which was just a Nike Jordan 1 silhouette that replaced the swoosh with a lightning bolt he even took the Air Jordan branding and replaced it with air Omi now taking the Nike silhouette for a shoe brand isn't something new it was a really hot trend for the past few years I even bought myself a pair only would slap the word reloaded on a popular team's logo or really any iconic Brand trade dress it's pretty clear that omi's specialty is copyright infringement building an original brand is way too much work and too risky however things got really bad for OMI in September of 2021 when he was formally indicted with criminal copyright infringement wire fraud money laundering and several other crimes the feds came back once again and raided his house for the second time this time he made much bigger headlines and was even interviewed on the news just to be crystal clear the indictment that came down today you're saying you're completely innocent of those um not completely innocent would be a false statement now ignorance is no excuse for the law again you'd imagine someone would be quiet during this instance or at the very least have their lawyer speak for them but Omi was still convinced that he exploited the system omi's whole life at this point was dedicated to fighting this case he barely uploaded YouTube videos maybe once a month and when he did you could just tell this man's Spirit was broken but after months of deliberation from his legal counsel Omi pleaded guilty in February of 2022. I'm letting you guys know that I'm pleading guilty um long talk to my attorney and um it's the best option you know ignorance is no excuse like I've always said and it's to me it's about you know accepting responsibility now he was going to serve some time in prison three U.S government attorneys say that Omar AKA oh me and a Hellcat should serve 15 years and eight months in prison for crimes related to his pirate IPTV service gears TV so he spent all of his time grinding to get his business Affairs in order so his family can survive while he is away but on March 7th 2023 Omi finally met his fate United States district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania judge Harvey Bartle III acknowledged that the advisory guidelines of 24 years would be highly unusual for a copyright Manner and therefore decided that 66 months would be enough to punish Omar and send a deterrent message to any of his followers considering the same type of behavior on top of the five and a half years in prison Omar got five years of supervised release he had to Forfeit 30 million dollars worth of assets which was mostly vehicles and properties and he had to pay more than 16 million dollars in restitution 10 million to the cable companies and 5 million to the IRS but surprisingly Omi was happy with this outcome he could have gave me 15 years if he wanted to he really could have he really could have he could have gave me 15 years and I guess no one would have questioned him on it and to the fact that he gave me another chance for my kids like I said man I'm always going to have that man in the back of my mind throughout this entire time omi's supporters have had his back and a lot of them don't look at him as a scammer nor a fraudster probably because most people don't have sympathy for billion dollar corporations Omi was stealing from corporations and giving their product to regular people for a fair price he came from nothing in the Streets of Philadelphia and built an Empire however that Empire wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for the people who created the demand in the first place Omi knows what he did was wrong and he has accepted that he needs to do the time to pay for what he did just a few weeks ago he surrendered himself into prison if we have any faith in the justice system we just have to hope that Omi comes out a better and changed man

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Length: 16min 25sec (985 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 17 2023