“Omi in a Hellcat” had hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers to its pirate IPTV service when its company was hijacked.
A youtuber with more than 800,000 subscribers who constantly boasted about his life of luxury will lose everything for getting involved in piracy.
This is Bill Omar Carrasquillo, known on YouTube as “ Omi in a Hellcat ”.
The man pleaded guilty to being responsible for a pirated IPTV business . That is, one that offers the content of other companies via subscription.
The fall of the tycoon
“Omi in a Hellcat” will lose more than $30 million in assets, including $6 million in cash, luxury cars from brands like Lamborghini, Porsche, Bentley, and Mclaren , plus more than a dozen properties . that he accumulated in Philadelphia, indicates the Inquirer.
Bill Omar Carrasquillo will also spend five and a half years in prison. His grief was influenced by his presence on social media. “You have a huge following and there are people who may think they can get away with it,” Judge Harvey Bartle III commented.
The 36-year-old apologized to his family, employees and the cable companies.
Carrasquillo charged subscriptions that started at $15 a month to offer pirated content that, in addition to live channels, included movies and series.
The company, launched in 2016, went by various names including Gears TV and Gears Reloaded , managing to amass 100,000 subscribers in 2019, when it was tapped.
At that time, he was earning more than $34 million.
“I really didn’t know how significant this crime was until I was picked up by the FBI at my home,” he said.