DJ Envy Not Off The Hook For Cesar Pina Scam; Threatened With Arrest

Breakfast Membership host DJ Envy confronted extra authorized hassle on account of his enterprise relationship with Cesar Pina, who was busted for wire fraud. In accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff, a New Jersey choose threatened Envy with arrest if he didn’t hand over all paperwork requested by a trustee in Pina’s chapter case.

Choose Rosemary Gambardella ordered Envy, whose actual identify to Raashaun Casey, to supply copies of the paperwork by January 8, 2024. Pina and his spouse Jennifer got the identical directions.

“Ought to Cesar Pina, Jennifer Iturralde Pina and/or Raashaun Casey fail to supply full and full responses to the requests on Schedules A, B, and C as directed in decretal paragraph one above, the Trustee shall file a discover of default with the Courtroom, at which era the Courtroom might convene a listening to to deal with acceptable sanctions in opposition to Cesar Pina, Jennifer Iturralde Pina and Raashaun Casey for contempt of this Courtroom’s order, together with, however not restricted to an order for arrest to carry the events to the US Chapter Courtroom, District of New Jersey, 50 Walnut Road, Newark, New Jersey to seem for a Rule 2004 deposition,” Choose Gambardella wrote.

Pina’s firm Whairhouse LLC filed for chapter amid stress from eight buyers in August. A choose appointed a trustee to supervise Whairhouse on the behest of the buyers, who mentioned Pina used the corporate “to function an actual property Ponzi scheme.” Envy’s promotion of Pina’s actual property offers allegedly satisfied individuals to put money into Pina’s scheme, however they by no means noticed a return on their investments.

Authorities arrested Pina for working a multimillion-dollar Ponzi-like funding fraud scheme in October. He was launched on a $1 million bond.

Envy was not charged with against the law however confronted intense scrutiny for his enterprise partnership with Pina. A number of events sued Envy for his alleged position in Pina’s rip-off.