Cardi B will stop at nothing to receive the $4 million is was awarded after a blogger slandered her and her family.
Recent reports reveal that the Bronx native has now subpoenaed Tasha K’s husband demanding that he list all of his financial assets.
In documents obtained by HipHopDX, the mother of two’s legal team is ordering a “subpoena duces tecum” on Cheickna Kebe. The documents were served on June 18.
A subpoena duces tecum is a “type of subpoena that requires the witness to produce a document or documents pertinent to a proceeding,” according to the Legal Information Institute.
The order, set to take place on Aug. 7 in Miami, would allow the Money star to evaluate all financial assets of Tasha K and her husband while recorded on video. The assets will also show on Tasha K’s bankruptcy filing, drafted in May.
“The examination may continue from day to day until completed,” according to the court document. “If the examinee receives this notice less than 14 days prior to the scheduled examination date, the examination will be rescheduled upon timely request to a mutually agreeable time.”
The subpoena duces tecum continued: “The filing of the case imposed an automatic stay against most collection activities. This means that creditors generally may not take action to collect debts from the debtors or the debtors’ property. For example, while the stay is in effect, creditors cannot sue, garnish wages, assert a deficiency, repossess property, or otherwise try to collect from the debtors.”
“Creditors cannot demand repayment from debtors by mail, phone, or otherwise. Creditors who violate the stay can be required to pay actual and punitive damages and attorney’s fees. Under certain circumstances, the stay may be limited to 30 days or not exist at all, although debtors can ask the court to extend or impose a stay.”
Reports also show the 30-year-old’s subpoena duces tecum does not interfere with the order because it was disseminated under Federal Bankruptcy Rule 2004.
In May, a court judgment ordered Tasha K to pay Cardi $4 million in a defamation lawsuit the rapper won against the blogger, causing the YouTube personality to declare bankruptcy.
Born Latasha Transrina Kebe, Tasha K filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after failing to pay the WAP rapper who sued her for defamatory comments she made about Cardi B and her family, according to The Neighborhood Talk.
In April, the YouTube personality posted that she had just paid off her $4 million debt.
But at the time, Cardi B said that she would have to check her Apple Pay since she has not received any payment.
“PSA Winos [clinking glasses emoji] I just paid off my 4 million dollar debt in cash [prayer hands emoji],” she tweeted. She then shared the same message on her Instagram.
The Neighborhood Talk reposted the claim that she had paid off Cardi B, to which the rapper commented “Mhhhhmmmm [thinking man emoji]……let me check my Apple Pay.”
On March 21, Tasha K lost an appeal to have the judgment reversed. She would later go on Instagram to apologize to the Money star and vowed to pay her.
But fans were surprised that the blogger was able to cough up $4 million so soon. It then dawned on online spectators that she announced she had paid Cardi B on April Fools Day.
Born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar Cephus, Cardi B sued Tasha K in 2019 for suggesting in a YouTube video that Cardi B was a drug addict among other malicious things said about the 30-year-old rapper. She would later win the case in January 2022, with a federal jury awarding the star $4 million in damages.
Tasha K would then file an appeal stating that the judgment was a “very lopsided presentation of evidence to the jury.” But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected Kebe’s appeal.
“There are two issues here. One is whether the jury had sufficient evidence to hold appellants—Latasha Kebe and others—liable for defamation (and other privacy torts) against appellee Belcalis Almanzar (better known as ‘Cardi B’). The other is whether the district court erred by excluding evidence,” the appeals court wrote. “We hold that Kebe hasn’t preserved either issue for appeal.”
