DJ Envy‘s embattled onetime business partner Cesar Pina has applied to be an Uber driver as he prepares to face trial over wire fraud charges.
Pina, through his attorney, has lobbied the judge in his case to change the conditions of his release so that he can drive for Uber to earn money.
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Pina has asked the court to allow him to travel around the Tri-State area for work but will not undertake any jobs that require attending an airport.
The judge has not yet ruled on the motion.
Update on the wire fraud case against DJ Envy’s former business partner Cesar Pina:
His lawyer is asking the judge to change Pina’s release conditions so he can drive for Uber and Lyft. No trips to airports allowed. pic.twitter.com/DOnDGwjyoq
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) August 14, 2024
Pina was arrested last October for allegedly defrauding millions of dollars from investors as part of a real estate scam.
He is being accused of using his reach on social media to take advantage of his followers, promising high investment returns and allegedly tricking several people out of millions of dollars in the process.
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Case documents and legal statements have revealed that Pina and DJ Envy are being investigated for seminars they’ve held across the country to entice and allegedly subsequently defraud investors.
Through court documents, Envy, who has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and has not been arrested, has said that he is willing to testify against his former business partner.
“We are aware that on December 20, 2023, the Court issued an Order compelling the production of documents demanded in those subpoenas,” Envy’s lawyer, Daniel Marchese, wrote. “At this time, I am happy to report that on Friday, January 5, 2024, we forwarded our responses and document production to counsel for the Trustee in these aforementioned cases.
“Given the professional back-and-forth between counsel and I since then, it would appear that indeed the responses and the production were acknowledged and received by the Trustee. With this writing, I therefore confirm my client’s compliance with Your Honor’s Order. As I offered to Trustee’s counsel, I will likewise offer to the Court that should sworn testimony (in any form) be needed to affirm my client’s responses and production, he would readily oblige.”
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Envy also claims to be a victim of Pina’s scams. Citing an incident from last August, he claims to have lost $500,000 on a project with Pina and his wife, Jennifer, to renovate and transform a former school into an apartment building.
