Fugees rapper found guilty in US over 1MDB case
Prakazrel Michel was convicted on 10 counts after a trial featuring high-profile witnesses including Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Prakazrel Michel was convicted on 10 counts after a trial featuring high-profile witnesses including Leonardo DiCaprio.
WASHINGTON — A jury on Wednesday (April 26) convicted Grammy Award-winning rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel of The Fugees hip-hop group on criminal charges that he conspired with a Malaysian financier to orchestrate a series of foreign lobbying campaigns aimed at inf
Rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel was convicted on criminal charges that he conspired with a Malaysian financier to orchestrate a series of foreign lobbying campaigns aimed at influencing the U.S. government under two presidents.
The defense argued the Grammy-winning rapper from the 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees simply wanted to make money and got bad legal advice as he reinvented himself in the world of politics.
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG): Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, a former rapper with the Grammy-winning Fugees turned political influencer, was convicted of conspiring to wage a back-channel lobbying campaign to end United States probes of Malaysian tycoon Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, and get American authorities to extradite a dissident Chinese billionaire.