DJ Envy‘s business partner was recently arrested for wire fraud in connection to their real estate ventures, and he has finally addressed the negativity coming his way because of the ensuing legal troubles.
On Tuesday (October 24), Cesar Pena aired out his frustrations on Instagram Live regarding all the lawsuits he is currently facing.
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“Whenever you touch success, right, you get all these people that want to be around you,” he began. “All these people that profited from my success, all the people that I have bailed out of jail, all the people that I have put cars in my name, apartments in my name, helped them with down payments for houses, helped them with this, helped them when they can’t pay their rent — where are these people at?”
He continued: “In all these lawsuits — these 20 lawsuits — DJ Envy was never in the room with me. DJ Envy has nothing to do with any of these 20 lawsuits of these people that’re suing me, and it fucking sucks, bro.
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“It pisses me off that all these people, right, all the Tony Baloney fans, bashing DJ Envy — Funkmaster Flex, Rick Ross, every single person — ’cause what you people gotta understand is that DJ Envy is so successful in Hip Hop that, as far as a DJ, people just don’t like him.”
Check out Pina’s comments below:
DJ Envy real estate backlash "f-cking sucks," says lleged fraudster Cesar Pina https://t.co/3Yh0bOWXIApic.twitter.com/hLn5pRHF9C
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) October 25, 2023
As the situation developed over the past week, DJ Envy even said that he’s a “victim” of Cesar Pina’s alleged real estate scam. In the same social media post mentioned above, Pina broke his silence regarding claims that he stole millions of dollars from investors.
The real estate developer, who goes by “Flipping NJ,” denied any wrongdoing throughout the clip while refuting his former partner’s claim that he, like many others, fell victim to the “Ponzi scheme.”
“I’m at the point now that I can’t communicate with anybody ’cause now everybody’s a potential co-conspirator, everybody is a witness, everybody is a victim,” Pina said. “Nobody’s an investor anymore; everybody’s a victim.
“DJ Envy’s attorney’s defense that DJ Envy is a victim — that’s the dumbest shit I ever heard in my life. Me and him were partners in the real estate seminars, we were partners in a couple of real estate transactions. That’s it. He’s not a victim! He was my partner, he was an investor.”
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In August, The Breakfast Club co-host claimed to have lost $500,000 on a project with Cesar Pina and his wife, Jennifer, to renovate and reposition a former school into an apartment building.
His claims were made in a legal filing seeking to dismiss a lawsuit against him from two of Pina’s investors, Anthony Barone and Anthony Martini, who say the duo defrauded them out of $1.5 million over an apartment complex that never materialized.
