DJ Envy’s former business partner, Cesar Pina, and his legal woes continue. Last December, the embattled entrepreneur and his wife, Jennifer Pina, were ordered to produce several documents for the court, which they evidently failed to do. Now, in docs obtained by AllHipHop, the Pinas are facing a possible arrest. According to the docs, Mark Politan—identified as Chapter 11 Trustee (the “Trustee”) for Whairhouse Real Estate Investments, LLC—wants the Pinas arrested.
“On February 6, 2024, the Trustee filed a letter on the docket respectfully requesting that the Order Authorizing the United States Marshall to Arrest Cesar Pina and Jennifer Iturralde Pina and Deliver the Pinas to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, Newark Vicinage, at 50 Walnut Street, Newark, New Jersey be entered (the ‘Order for Arrest’),” the docs read. “Please be advised that the attached Order for Arrest will be entered today, February 8, 2024 unless there is a response to the request by the end of today.”
Considering February 8 has come and gone, it’s likely they’ll be in custody soon. While the judge has yet to officially sign off on the arrest warrant, Pina could be in custody as early as next week.
Federal authorities arrested Pina and charged him with allegedly defrauding dozens of real estate investors late last year. Pina defended Envy in October 2023 not long after his arrest, saying he had nothing to do with the alleged real estate scam and is only being targeted because he’s the more famous of the two.
“DJ Envy was never in the room with me,” Pina told his Instagram followers. “DJ Envy has nothing to do with any of these 20 lawsuits of these people who are suing me. It f###### sucks, bro.”
Pina also said people are “being coerced to sue people affiliated with me just because they are a bigger name. That’s the situation that breaks my heart. In all these lawsuits, these 20 lawsuits, DJ Envy was never in the room with me.”
He did, however, deny DJ Envy was a victim, saying, “I understand his attorney, his defense to DJ Envy is a victim. That’s the dumbest s### I ever heard in my life. Me and him were partners in the real estate seminars. We are partners in a couple of real estate transactions. That’s it. He’s not a victim. He was my partner. He was an investor.”
