Cardi B has accused YouTube personality Tasha K of hiding money in an attempt to avoid paying the $4 million judgement against her. In court documents observed by AllHipHop, the rapper’s lawyers allege Tasha K is hiding offshore accounts that she didn’t disclose in her initial Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. They believe Tasha and her husband, Cheickna Kebe, have been lying about the existence of offshore and domestic trusts created for them.
While the couple testified in their depositions that they didn’t have any savings accounts, IRAs or trusts in their names or in the names of their children, Cardi B’s legal team insists they have multiple domestic and offshore trusts, including at least in which $30,000 was transferred. Other alleged trusts have been located in New Zealand’s Cook Islands and the Island of Nevis in St. Kitts, as well as in Georgia and Florida.
More specifically:
• The Sambakessi Investment Trust (Cook Islands)
• Soninkes LLC (Island of Nevis)
• The Bamako Trust (Kebe Children ILT) (Georgia)
• Transrina Management Trust (Georgia)
• Florida Joint Revocable Living Trust
A third party, identified as Patricia Haynes, is familiar with those alleged trusts and are requesting a judge to compel her to answer their subpoenas, but she’s deliberately evading service, according to a text message exchange included in the court documents.
Cardi B won a $4 million defamation lawsuit against Tasha K in January 2022 after she claimed the vlogger made false and disparaging remarks about her. Days later, Tasha K addressed the massive loss on her YouTube channel, saying she’s being bullied by a “machine that has corporate interest to protect prostitution, drug use, promiscuity, and to glorify the violence that wreaks havoc on our society in our neighborhoods.”
She referred to the case a “conspiracy” and talked about how “challenging” the last four years have been for her. But Tasha insisted she wasn’t shocked by the verdict and actualy expected it.
“We are prepared for this challenge from the beginning,” she said at the time. “We called bluff against a machine that wanted to bully me for not wavering from my personal beliefs. To glorify how its sold to our children as the ‘it factor.’ This machine, this thing secured an extremely prejudicial verdict against myself solely off of sympathy and payola. My First Amendment right poses a threat to the machine’s sole intention to mislead the public with caricatures built on violence, selling sex and images of a denounced stereotype.”
Cardi B briefly expressed empathy for Tasha K after she opened up about her financial hardships, but it was fleeting. She did, however, explain her reasoning for filing the lawsuit in the first place.
“During this trial, all of you have learned about the darkest time in my life,” she said in part. “That moment in time was fueled by the vile, disgusting, and completely false narratives that were repeatedly and relentlessly being shared online. I thought I would never be heard or vindicated and I felt completely helpless and vulnerable.
“I really hope that my experience forces all of us, but especially the platforms who allow this behavior to be a part of their communities, to re-think what moves us forward as a society versus what cripples us.”