US EditionFugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign
Pras Michel was convicted of funneling over $100 million in foreign funds to influence U.S. politics and received a 14-year prison sentence, with an appeal planned by his defense.
- Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, a former member of the 1990s hip-hop group The Fugees, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegally funnelling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
- Michel was convicted of 10 counts by a federal jury in 2023 and ordered to forfeit about $65 million for his role in the scheme involving Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho.
- Prosecutors said Michel "lied unapologetically and unrelentingly" and sought to deceive the White House, senior politicians, and the FBI for nearly a decade.
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Grammy-winning 90’s rapper sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegal donations to Obama campaign, reports
Grammy-winning Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel was sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign funds to the 2012 reelection campaign of former President Barack Obama, according to several reports.
Fugees’ rapper gets stiff prison sentence for illegal Obama campaign funding scheme · American Wire News
Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a former member of the rap group known as the Fugees, was sentenced on Thursday for illegally funneling millions in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign. A federal judge sentenced him to 14 years in prison, one of his reps confirmed to Rolling Stone magazine. “After serving the sentence, Michel will serve three years’ probation,” the magazine reported. “Prosecutors had sough…
Fugees rapper sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegally funneling millions from a Malaysian billionaire into Obama's 2012 campaign
In April 2023, a federal jury convicted Michel of 10 counts, including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
Rapper Gets 14 Years in Prison for Funneling Millions of Dollars in Illegal Campaign Contributions to Obama in 2012
Rapper Prakazrel Michel, part of the pop music group the ‘Fugees,’ was sentenced to 14 years in prison this week, after being found guilty of funneling millions of dollars worth of illegal campaign contributions to Obama in 2012.
Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign
Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
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