Following a year of contentious disputes from the radio to the court docket, rapper Drake has been hit with a class action lawsuit.
The musician is accused, alongside streamer Adin Ross and George Nguyen, of promoting an illegal online casino while using proceeds from the site to artificially inflate streams of his music. The lawsuit, filed Dec. 31 and reviewed by USA TODAY, claims the men used the website Stake.us to "obscure transmissions of money" to advance "their ongoing music botting campaigns."
Filed on behalf of LaShawnna Ridley and Tiffany Hines, the lawsuit also names all users of Stake.us, the American version of Stake.com, as plaintiffs, calling the website "one of the largest and most profitable illegal online casinos." Stake.us, the suit alleges, was created to bypass restrictions after Stake.com was banned from operating everywhere in the U.S.
While the website was marketed as a "social casino" that bars "real money gambling," the suit alleges that language was meant to dupe regulators and consumers.
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