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🚨 NEW: Drake might just get hit with the RICO.
Drake and Ed Craven, serial entrepreneur behind Stake, Kick, and EasyGo are formally accused of running a gambling scheme that artificially inflates Drake's stream counts. Here's how it works:
1. Kick, Stake, and EasyGo are all companies created in Melbourne at the same office and run by the same person: Ed Craven.
2. Stake pays Drake $100M/year and funds his crypto wallet with house money. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Drake receives ~$50M/week from the company to bet with.
3. An example is Drake's viral $1M bet on Super Bowl LX; Stake just gives that money to Drake to bet. Drake often doesn't disclose that posting his bets on socials is just an advertising deal for Stake.
4. If the bet hits, Drake gets to keep a proportion of the winnings. But, a careful study from Bloomberg reveals that the games are likely rigged by Stake's own parent company, EasyGo, to ensure that Drake earns outsized winnings on bets.
5. Drake and other influencers are 4x more likely to win an EasyGo game than gamblers who have no marketing partnership with Stake. In various streams, Drake and other influencers are literally heard asking "Eddie" which games he should play to win big, typically winning enormous gambles like $50 --> $50k.
6. These rigged wins are designed to happen while streaming on Kick, which is why Eddie gets involved personally on stream to inform the influencers which games to select. After the big win, Stake pays a network of thousands of clippers about $800 per 1M views on any content they post of Drake winning these games with the Stake logo watermarked.
7. A new federal RICO class-action lawsuit filed in Virginia alleges that Drake and others use their winnings to covertly transfer funds to a third party named George Nguyen (@ grandwizardchatnigga on IG), who hires bot farms and handles payouts. The streams are played from iPhone farms in Turkey but are routed to appear from the UK, orchestrated by Nguyen. Note: Nguyen refers to himself publicly as "Big Propaganda" for this operation.
8. Per Rolling Stone and Vulture, leaked communications depict Nguyen withdrawing Drake's crypto wallet to cash, and then interfaces directly with bot vendors and clipping networks to artificially inflate Drake's streams at about the same time as the Stake, Kick, or EasyGo promotion Drake is doing.
In a linked lawsuit, Drake has been accused of using this scheme to bot up to 37 billion Spotify streams between 2022 and 2025 -- which account for 20-25% of his streams in that time. These allegations have not yet been proven in court.
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