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Ivanka Trump Credited for Death Row Co-Founder s Clemency After Snoop Dogg s Push
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President Donald Trump reportedly agrees to commute Michael Harry-O Harris sentence after the rapper was quietly lobbying him and his daughter talked to him in the last minute. Jan 20, 2021
Snoop Dogg has been an outspoken critic of
Donald Trump, but he now may have a change of heart about his opinion on the president. The outgoing president has reportedly commuted the sentence of Death Row co-founder Michael Harry-O Harris after the rapper s push.
According to Weldon Angelos, a friend who also advocated for Harris release, Harris got word that he d been granted clemency at Federal Correctional Institution Lompoc in California. Angelos told The Post Harris said to him in an email, Thank God. God is great. It feels like the weight of the world was lifted off my shoulders.
Harris played a crucial role in the founding of Death Row Records: In 1992, while in jail, he gave Suge Knight $1.5 million to help him start the label. Death Row would go on to be the home for Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Tupac as West Coast rap exploded during the early Nineties.
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The Daily Beast previously reported, Harris has spent nearly 30 years in prison on attempted murder and cocaine trafficking charges. His sentence was supposed to last until 2028, although efforts to get him a pardon or compassionate release ramped up this year. Harris reportedly suffers from an autoimmune disease, and the Federal Correctional Institution Lompoc in California, where he was being held, was one of many prisons to suffer a devastating Covid-19 outbreak last year.