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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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Yeah, we on Boss Talk TV. Shout out to E. The reason you see, >> 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. >> Boss Talk 101 review. >> Yeah, we on Boss Talk TV. Shout out to Ehe, the reason you