YouTube Star Gets 5 1/2-Year Sentence, Forfeits $30M in Video Piracy Case

A YouTube star who built a sizable following with slickly produced videos flaunting his fleet of luxury and sports cars, collection of diamond-encrusted bling, and his spacious home will be forced to give up nearly all of it after he was sentenced to 5½ years in prison for the illegal business that allowed him to amass those trappings of success. Bill Omar Carrasquillo — better known to his more than 800,000 online followers as “Omi in a Hellcat” — pleaded guilty last year to running one of the most brazen and successful cable TV piracy schemes ever prosecuted by the U.S. government.