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Salom Jackson, widely known by her reality television persona Betty Idol from *Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta* and *Cartel Crew*, was recently arrested in Valuchia County following an eleven-month investigation into a sophisticated real estate fraud scheme. According to investigators, victims were deceived into wiring nearly $200,000 to purchase vacant land in Orange City after the property appeared legitimately listed through a local office. The deception involved suspects posing as actual owners and providing fake identification documents that convinced the real estate agency they were dealing with legitimate parties. Ultimately, the stolen funds were directed toward fraudulent business accounts rather than being used for the intended land purchase, leading to Jackson's arrest where bank records successfully linked most of the illicit money directly to her.
The legal consequences facing Betty Idol are severe, as she is accused of multiple felonies including money laundering, grand theft auto, organized schemes to defraud, and identity theft. The investigation revealed that despite her public fame on reality TV shows, Jackson was not immune to law enforcement scrutiny; authorities utilized a combination of bank records, flight logs, surveillance footage, ATM videos, and other digital evidence to build their case against her. While some observers speculate she may have been the ring leader or at least knowingly put her name on fraudulent paperwork to facilitate the scam, others suggest she might not have fully understood the extent of the operation until it collapsed. Regardless of whether she acted alone or with accomplices, the fraud resulted in significant financial loss for victims who believed they were investing in legitimate real estate opportunities.
Beyond the specific details of this case, the discussion surrounding Jackson's arrest touches on broader themes regarding white-collar crime and gender dynamics within the penal system. The transcript highlights a common misconception that scamming is less dangerous than street crimes like burglary or robbery; however, the reality is that financial fraud can lead to lengthy prison sentences once caught, as evidenced by Jackson facing four felony charges. There is also an observation that women are increasingly taking on roles traditionally held by men in criminal enterprises, yet they often face unique challenges within prisons where family support systems differ from those of male inmates. The conversation underscores the importance of protecting individuals from being led astray and emphasizes that no amount of fame or perceived cleverness can shield someone from the severe repercussions of engaging in illegal activities when a paper trail exists to connect them to the crime.
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>> better known as Betty Idol on Love and
Hip Hop and Cartel crew, was arrested in
connection to a real estate fraud scheme
in Valuchia County. This comes after an
11-month investigation. Investigators
say the victims wired nearly $200,000
to purchase vacant land in Orange City
after it was legitimately listed through
a local real estate office. Detectives
say the property was fraudulently listed
for sale by suspects posing as the
actual owners. The victims ultimately
wired their money to a fraudulent
business account. Detectives say they
were able to connect most of the stolen
funds to Salom Jackson using bank
records. She faces several charges
including moneyaundering.
>> Wow, guy. Let me stop it right there
man. Listen, man. Uh be careful on this
uh trying to wire money and do stuff,
man. You will get yourself in a lot of
trouble, man. And this young lady who
I'm like I I don't know but I got
somebody in here who I know done heard
all about her man. Uh bet I Who is this
uh reality TV? You there?
>> So So I hear all about it.
>> Well I know you you you watch stuff I
would never watch. So basically this
girl name Have you heard of this young
lady? I'll just start off like that.
>> And what's her name?
>> Betty Idol. Let me let me send you the
deal. She is not a badl looking woman
either. I'm like they going to enjoy
her. You know what I'm saying?
>> OH MY GOD.
>> They going enjoy her over there in that
uh uh what they call it. I got to send
this to you. You got to see this. You
just check it out. This your home girl.
This your you know home girl.
>> Yeah. She's she's uh she's loving hip
hop. So I figured you would know her.
She's she's actually in Va County,
Florida. Uh, her name is uh Salmon
Jackson, better known as Betty Idol on
Love and Hip Hop and the Cartel Crew.
Really? Arrested following 11 month
investigation into alleged real estate
fraud scheming in Bellagia County. Man,
um, young lady done got herself in
trouble. Y'all get in the comments. Let
me know. Did y'all ever see this young
lady? Let me know. Uh, have y'all have
y'all seen her? Tell me how you seen
her. OG, are you there?
>> Tell me, have you seen her?
>> Hold on. Let me get let me get reality
TV back on there. Good boy. Uh, so what
what we have is a young lady who got
caught and I sent it to y'all the phone
OG earlier this morning. She got caught.
When I seen it, I said, "Man, uh, they
got her now." But the the thing they got
on is fraud. She's from Love and Hip
Hop. Her name is, uh, Salom Jackson. Can
you see that uh reality TV?
>> Yeah.
>> Better known as Betty Idol on on Love
and Hip Hop cartel crew. She was
arrested uh following 11-month
investigation into an alleged real
estate fraud scheme in Valuja County.
Investigators say the victim wired
approximately 198,000 to purchase a
vacant parcel of land in Orange City
after it was legitimately listed through
a local uh uh uh estate office. A
detective say that the property was
fraudulently listed for sale by suspects
uh posing as the actual owner. According
to the investigation, fake
identification was uh provided to the
real estate office which believed u it
was communicated with the legitimate
property owners. The victim ultimately
wired the money to the fraudulent
business account. So, she was going to
she fake bought the land, then she
turned around and purchased it herself
to get that paperwork, right? Is that
or is that something? I don't
I've never seen How would you expect
that to work?
Any one of y'all, anybody know how you
could expect to buy some land then shoot
it back? I mean, buy it through the bank
for 198,000. So she had money or she
went and borrowed money that she didn't
have is what it looks like.
>> It's like she borrowed money that she
didn't have. And I was listening at them
when they was talking about it. They not
being easy on her. Listen at this OG.
I'll play this again.
>> Better known as Betty Idol on Love & Hip
Hop and Cartel Crew was arrested in
connection to a real estate fraud scheme
in Valuchia County. This comes after an
11-month investigation. Investigators
say the victims wired nearly $200,000 to
purchase vacant land in Orange City
after it was legitimately listed through
a local real estate office. Detectives
say the property was fraudulently listed
for sale by suspects posing as the
actual owners. The victims ultimately
wired their money to a fraudulent
business account. Detectives say they
were able to connect most of the stolen
funds to Salom Jackson using bank
records. She faces several charges
including moneyaundering.
So Salom Jackson probably is I wonder if
she the ring leader. She got to be some
somewhat of a leader this to do even
they got her and and ain't seeing nobody
else. So her paper her name must been on
the paperwork.
OG listen to me.
>> Must be the only person that that's um
famous or something that's been on TV or
something.
>> It got to be because they only using her
name and they picked her up. I but her
name has to be on the paperwork. That
has to be it. Uh Salom done put her damn
name on that paperwork. And I don't
think she should have uh if she you
can't get away when you put your name on
that damn paperwork. And I'm going to
tell you something right now. And people
not to play with her when she go off in
there. And but she going to talk about
who helped her cuz I don't think she was
smart enough to do this on her own. I
don't. Now that's just me. But then OG,
I'm gonna be real with you. OG done
showed me some things when it come down
to these the ladies because they'll be
scheming harder than the they scam
harder than the men. You hear me?
>> They got they got to keep up.
>> Yeah. Well, they ain't got to keep up. I
don't know about to keep up.
>> Keep up with the Joneses.
>> Oh, okay. Okay. I got you. I got you. I
got you. So, OG, do you think she done
it?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. OG say yes sir. Investigate the
house
>> 11 months. 11 months. They got her 11
months ago. They just picked her up
yesterday. So she But but I mean she's I
wonder did she even see it coming at
all? You know, like did she even think
that they were going to pick her up? You
know what I mean? Like cuz a lot of time
when you doing something and you having
such fun time with it, you know, this
may be the and and ultimately this could
be the only one she got caught on cuz
usually it ain't just a it's a trail.
Now, she might this might have been her
first time like somebody else I know.
I'm not going to say no names, but
somebody else I know went and tried to
do something and put their name on
paperwork. And when you put your name on
paperwork and you start trying to go
pick up different things, vehicles,
houses, anything you try to pick up,
these folk got a paper trail to you.
Now, you I don't care if you take No,
I'm not doing that with you, OG. I'mma
cut that out. But
but when these people got this paper
trail to you, you can't really uh move
like that cuz they know you they know
your whereabouts. You got your face on
the damn ID. So you giving your face
card away. Uh uh uh you you you putting
your name your your government name on
this paperwork or even if it's a
fraudulent name, they're going to link
it back. They got some stuff that OG and
you talked about this. I didn't know
about it as much when we talked about
the prisoners getting out. You showed,
you know, we talked about the facial
recognition. Remember that?
>> Yeah.
>> And you was telling me that they could
hit them from so many distance. I didn't
realize that was going on because I'm,
you know, I'm from the old school. You
get away with it a little bit. But this
new, this new technology, I don't see
how you can get away with this stuff.
And I don't even see how you would try.
Your mind would have to be warped to go
and try to figure out a way to do
something with your face on it and try
to think that you gonna walk away with
some with with a with a with a piece of
property that values probably more than
198,000. You know what I mean? I don't I
don't think she thought this through
properly. I know she didn't. She
wouldn't be sitting there with them
handcuffs on. You know what I mean? I at
least would have got me somebody else to
do it. You know what I mean?
I wouldn't have been tied to. They
had to snitch me out. I wouldn't have
never put my name on none of that. And
I'd have never been standing up there
trying to get the property either.
That's something else. I send somebody
else to go get it. If I get it, it's
going to be somebody else's and I'm
attached to them. But I'm not putting my
name on nothing. You know what I'm
saying?
>> They shackle up like she kill
people.
>> Didn't they have a shackle up? I looked
at it when I seen it popping cuz it's
popping on my timeline and I was like,
man, this woman right here done got
herself in a world of trouble because of
her little uh fame that she had on Love
and Hip Hop. I don't think she was on
there but a season.
>> You know what I mean?
>> I don't remember.
>> Yeah, she wasn't on there, but And I
think it probably was in maybe Florida,
but she definitely
>> Huh.
>> She was in Florida and she uh I know she
faced four felony charges. four.
>> Yeah. Money laundering, Grand Theft
Auto, organized scheme to defraud and
identity theft.
>> Damn. But she might, like I said, I
don't know if she can beat it. She'll
have to get an attorney. But she, one
thing I can say, she seemed like she
wasn't talking. You know, when it
sometime when you first get in there,
you don't talk. They try they'll try to
give you a cup of coffee. They'll try to
give you a cigarette. They'll try to get
you to loosen up and kind of relax
before your attorney get there. Even on
the movies they show you that. So I hope
she uh ready because they really bring
it out about that 198,000. Hell, they
don't pay about they don't play about
10,000. Now think of 198,000. They
blowing it up to make it bigger than
what it really actually may be. You know
what I mean? So a lot of times man on
this fraud, you know, I know what Young
Miami say where all my scamming, you
know, at, but this this thing
talk about the other side of it when you
get busted and go to jail. Let's talk
about that side of it because just
because you come back with a few Birkin
bags or you might come back with a Louis
Vuitton duffel bag or whatever on a few
occasions, let's talk about that time
where you got to go sit down because
they jammed you up. Nobody likes to talk
about that part. It's like a gambler
when you go to man I won 10,000. Man, I
won 50,000. Wait a minute. Man, I won 20
>> about that. But don't no matter it sound
you you know you you making it all
dramatic. M
>> uh white folks been doing these kind of
scams and that you I had a friend uh
named Kirk Leechman. And Kirk Leechman
was a 16 two or three man.
>> Okay. What is 16 to three?
>> 16 to three. 16 months, two years, and
three years. That's for burglary.
>> Okay. That's what he do. That's how he
get down. He ne he ain't never using he
man I can't let you do nothing with me
cuz y'all took them guns that's five to
life killing somebody is a life sentence
burglary is uh 16 to a three and so he
used to hit the 99 cent stores on Sunday
right
>> I went I went to prison for a murder
robbery and got a $1.38 cent for it was
going in the 99 cent door hitting them
on a Sunday at that time. In them days
it was all cash money. Right.
>> Right.
>> He he was he was getting away. He didn't
hit about five of them and then got away
and then he getting 90,000 250,000
and when he got busted he got three
years. Two years later he busted again.
He got three more years. Right.
>> Right. So when you look at the crime, if
if it paid for itself, yeah, uh crime
used to pay. So I mean when you say all
my scamming, a petty theft ain't but six
months in the county jail running in
somebody running in somebody's house
with a gun, that's a terrorist threat.
That's a life sentence. So scamming is
way better than baming.
>> You know what, OG, I'm not going to do
this with you this morning.
>> You got you got up with it this morning.
I thought you would have been a little
bit better on this. You let me tell you
something. Don't you try to justify no
damn scamming. Are you crazy? You don't
jump on here and try to tell me I'm
dramatic, but then scamming is okay. And
and No, no, it's not. It's not something
we going to permit.
>> No, you you going all through this and
thinking you scaring somebody.
>> Oh, I'm telling her she better sit down
somewhere. That's what I said. $198,000
she get up in front of it. It's going to
be a problem. It's going to be a problem
now. But but but I I I can agree with
you on something.
>> The only thing that I can say about that
what you said to make any credence to
what people say.
>> Wait a minute. Credence. Don't use them
big words, man. Go ahead.
>> Okay. Anyway,
we were talking about Derek Grove and I
use that illustration all the time when
Derek Grove them escaped from that jail.
Right.
>> Right. and and and everybody was caught.
And the news reporter asked the sheriff
one time, "Everybody's caught but Derry,
he's real lucky. You think y'all will
ever catch him?" And that sheriff looked
him straight in the eye. That white man
says, "He can be lucky a thousand times.
All we got to be is lucky once."
>> Man. Man. So, so you can do these scams
and you can do this a thousand times,
but all you got to do is get caught
once. And it's it's it's bad. You get
caught.
>> I agree with you. I I will agree with
you on one thing uh that you said too.
And I didn't mean to cut you off reality
TV, but I want to catch him on the fact
that he um you you you're right. Like
when when people we all were going to
jail for crack and uh co crack and coke
and all that stuff back in the days,
that white collar guy that was doing the
little scams, he might do two years and
get out of a federal charge. So it it
seemed like he was doing better than us
cuz they were so harsh on the crime at
the time. So I I can agree in that
aspect, but not I will not sit on here
and justify anything that have to do
with mishap when it come to people who
can get up here with their own two and
get out here and do whatever they got to
do to fend for their self now. We got to
do something to stay out of the folks
system. We can't do nothing behind them
bars. OG, I'mma say that. Nothing.
Not a damn thing.
Now go ahead reality TV. I'm sorry I had
to cut him off. I was just saying that
they got her um they got a bank record,
flight record, surveillance footage, and
ATM videos.
>> Oh lord. They got what now?
>> They got ATM videos, surveillance
videos, flight records, bank receipts,
and all kind of stuff like that. They
been following her for a bit of money.
>> Yeah, she the main one they that the
was sending out. He wrong for
that. I know it's a
>> Yeah, they sent her out because I I was
looking looking at it, right?
>> If I was gonna be the woman that's
that's going to take the foul for the
man.
>> Uh oh. OG. That's why OG OG. Is that
true?
>> With that bull.
>> I knew OG wasn't hearing that.
>> That's not even a fact. That's not even
a factual
statistics that a woman is not super I
you know let me tell you this one time
back in my other life.
>> Yeah.
>> I had this girl and she was just you
know uh shy sharing alley in the jungle.
We m this girl's making $80,000 a
day. I don't care if the sun didn't
shine.
>> Okay.
>> And so uh so she she she was down. So,
she wanted to to get this uh this car,
but she wanted to go see uh uh this go
to this concert. She was talking about
renting one. And I said, "Well, shoot.
Well, you make enough money. Let's just
buy one. I'm just talking." Right.
>> Next three, four days. She had the
money. Right.
>> Uh
>> I'm like, so we rolls down to the
Rolls-Royce dealer, buys the car, right?
>> Right. We bought a we bought a car but
in her name because I'm on actively on
parole this
we had a couple of other properties and
so they messed around here in
surveillance and they scooped me up and
uh scooped up the car had her name in
it. Now she was on welfare. They was
getting food stamps in them days. Right.
>> Yes sir.
>> Man, look. They told her they was taking
that them benefits
and boy if she didn't tell on me so
quick.
>> She is she giving up.
>> That's marvelous small. I said girl what
you know how they didn't have nothing on
you. She Marvin they threatened to take
my kid take my baby. She didn't care
about she wanted them stamps man.
>> She wanted to make sure you didn't mess
her stamps up and that's the way it be.
>> Hey. So women uh yeah agent take no it's
in prison now it's starting to be more
prevalent because women are taking on
men roles and they're the men is sitting
in the house and they going in robbing
but before
women were so up against it in the p
penal system especially in c and and and
in Texas the only prison that they had
in Texas was gorilla but all you know
that really tripped me out when I heard
about a guy told me he was in Korea.
Right.
>> Right.
>> And I'm like, that's a women's
penitentiary. But now, you know, I guess
they made it for for dudes, but at back
in the day, that was a women's prison.
And that was the only prison they had in
in in Texas at that time for females
because it's so rare that, you know,
nobody won't go visit a woman when she
go to prison like reality TV say cuz the
boyfriend ain't going to come visit.
Now, if I go to jail, a girl is going to
come visit me,
>> right?
>> But a woman that has a kid or two kids,
her family taking care of the child. So,
women really have it tough in prison,
you know. So, they're manifested a lot
now. But, no, they she was doing it for
some man. She was doing it for her dad.
That's why she got
>> I knew that I knew I knew I knew he
wouldn't going to let us make it. I knew
he going to try to take us down on that
one. Uh, but let's just let's just be
real. Uh, uh, reality TV. Um, you have
your opinion and he have his and I have
mine.
>> He wasn't in it alone. I bet you she
wasn't doing it alone.
I bet she was and a bunch of men
just just like a certain person I know,
you know, they so cool with it, but then
when they get with a bunch of other men.
>> Uh, uhoh. We're not going to get
personal. We're not get personal on
here.
>> So, so here we go. We become dependent
when we need to be, but independent when
we change.
>> Wow. Wow. OG is cold, boy. Cold. He know
how to
>> cold.
It ain't just a woman.
>> We not going to do this now. See, when
y'all get started, I can't stop y'all.
>> Hey, hey, wait a minute. Let me show you
the loyalties. But when a man's
independent, no matter what he is, he
always contacts his friend and tell him
they in town. He don't make some lame
excuse. I'm sleeping. I'm
>> Oh my god. Oh my god. Somebody went to
California and didn't check in. Yeah.
Yeah. Really? Let's get Yeah. Yeah.
Former Love and Hip Hop star links to
$188,000
real estate fraud scheme in Florida. And
uh the deputies uh got her locked up,
man. And I just want to say, man, uh,
man, we got to we we got to teach our
women, man. We got to we got to protect
our women, too. We got to show them the
way.
>> Smart.
>> No, we got to protect them.
>> Yeah. Yeah. We got We can't lead them
and and lead them astray. if she was led
and
>> but but but if she wasn't led and she
was orchestrating it as OG alluded to,
women are doing more things now than
what they used to because they're being
given they're they're being given uh
they're given a pass to do more stuff
now. They they they elected to do more
stuff now
>> doing they've been doing stuff. It
started off Adam was cool with God until
Eve
>> Oh man. Oh, he went all the way biblical
on you. I can't save you now. A reality
TV. Y'all get in the comments. Let me
know what y'all think, babe.
>> And she came on the scene
and then she manipulated.
>> Oh, man.
>> And she and and you know that's a drop
the mic type situation right there. Once
he did that, we dropping the mic, man.
Uh OG, appreciate your reality TV. Y'all
have a grand day, guys. And if you're
still watching, uh, a leak, uh, listen,
a leaked phone call from Poo Shist right
here, man, me and OG, we talked about
it. A leaked phone call where he
chopping it up and he on some Young Thug
type movements while he in jail.
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