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March 19, 2026
AI Musician Cops To $8M Streaming Revenue-Inflation Scam
A North Carolina man told a Manhattan federal judge Thursday that he conspired to inflate music streaming payments using an army of fake accounts and artificial-intelligence generated songs, copping to a count of conspiracy and agreeing to forfeit $8 million.
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January 01, 2025
On Tap In NY: Diddy, Trump And A New Manhattan Top Cop
The coming year's main event in New York courts is an expected sex-trafficking trial for hip-hop icon Sean "Diddy" Combs, while the political reascendancy of Donald Trump will echo in halls of the judiciary as the president-elect litigates to quash his own conviction.
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September 18, 2024
AI Musician Denies Purported $10M Streaming Scam
A North Carolina man facing a novel fraud case alleging he used artificial intelligence on platforms like Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube to generate around $10 million in illegal revenues denied wrongdoing at his initial court appearance Wednesday in New York.
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September 04, 2024
AI Musician Duped Streaming Giants To Steal $10M, Feds Say
A North Carolina man streamed thousands of artificial intelligence-generated songs to dupe streaming giants like Spotify and YouTube and generate $10 million in an elaborate scam, federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Wednesday in a first-of-its-kind case.