A former sound engineer for award-winning rapper Eminem—also known as Marshall Mathers—was charged on Wednesday with stealing the rapper’s unreleased music and selling it for Bitcoin, according to federal prosecutors.
Joseph Strange, 46, allegedly sold 25 of Eminem’s unfinished songs to a Canadian man he met on the internet in exchange for $50,000 worth of Bitcoin, according to a criminal complaint filed in Michigan on Wednesday. Prosecutors allege that Strange stole the songs from Effigy, Eminem’s music studio that is based in Michigan, and that Strange worked for Eminem between 2007 and 2021.
