![]() I ain’t guilty of nothing else.”Ĭarrasquillo says he legally paid for subscriptions to all the cable services whose content he is accused of sharing. “I hit a … gray area and exploited it, and they just didn’t like it,” he said in a 2019 video posted under the title “THE FBI SEIZED EVERYTHING FROM ME.” “I made a ton of money … I’m only guilty of making money. He has accused the feds of taking an interest only because he is a Black man from North Philadelphia who grew up poor and then struck it rich.Īnd consistently, Carrasquillo has maintained he is not guilty of copyright crimes. A video of the arrest shows agents milling around, as a woman streaming it live to the internet repeatedly asks: “What is going on?” ![]() Photos of Carrasquillo, shirtless and in neon boxer-briefs as agents handcuffed him in his foyer, quickly circulated on Instagram. He documented every step of that journey in videos posted online, advertising his subscription service and flaunting his newfound wealth in slickly produced footage of high-end sports cars and diamond-encrusted bling set to hip-hop beats.īut all that came crashing down this week as federal authorities accused Carrasquillo - better known to the nearly 800,000 who subscribe to his YouTube channel as “Omi in a Hellcat”- of heading one of the most brazen and successful digital piracy schemes of the last decade.Īnd, as is only fitting for an internet celebrity who has made a career out of sharing his life online, his arrest early Tuesday at his Swedesboro home was livestreamed on social media. With the business acumen of a Wharton grad and what authorities describe as the recklessness of a common thief, local YouTuber Bill Omar Carrasquillo went, in the span of just three years, from slinging drugs on a North Philadelphia street corner to running a multimillion-dollar streaming TV empire.
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