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  1. April 18, 2023

    Ex-Fugees Rapper Cops To, Blames Advisers For Illegal Acts

    Former Fugees rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel admitted Tuesday to using money he received from a Malaysian billionaire and alleged fraudster to commit campaign finance violations but claimed he did so while relying on advice from financial advisers and lawyers and that he didn't know his conduct was illegal at the time.

  2. April 17, 2023

    Ex-Fugees Rapper Denies Conspiring For Foreign Influence

    Former Fugees rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel never entered into an agreement with a Malaysian billionaire to funnel foreign money into America and influence its politics, and must be acquitted of related charges, his defense attorney told a Washington, D.C., federal jury Monday.

  3. April 10, 2023

    Ex-Fugee Seeks Immunity For Obama Fundraiser's Testimony

    Ex-Fugees rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to grant statutory immunity to a former Obama fundraiser, telling a D.C. federal judge that without immunity, the witness plans to plead the Fifth Amendment and deprive the rapper of a defense against claims he funneled foreign money into American politics.

  4. April 04, 2023

    Ex-Trump Fundraiser Says Rapper Liaised Influence Scams

    Former Republican National Committee finance chairman Elliott Broidy told a D.C. federal jury Tuesday that former Fugees rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel acted as the stateside coordinator for a Malaysian billionaire's alleged scheme to funnel foreign money into and assert influence over American politics.

  5. April 03, 2023

    Leonardo DiCaprio Testifies In Ex-Fugee's Conspiracy Trial

    Actor Leonardo DiCaprio told a D.C. federal jury Monday that fugitive Malaysian billionaire Jho Low — the man at the center of an alleged conspiracy with former Fugees rapper Pras Michel to funnel foreign money into American politics — once said he planned to donate roughly $20 million to the Democratic Party ahead of the 2012 election.

  6. March 30, 2023

    Ex-Fugees Rapper Made $100M In Influence Scams: Prosecutors

    Former Fugees rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel was desperate and willing to do anything for money in 2012, prosecutors told a D.C. federal jury Thursday, so he teamed up with the Malaysian billionaire allegedly responsible for the 1MDB embezzlement scandal to funnel foreign money into and influence American politics.

  7. September 13, 2022

    Ex-Fugees Artist Can't Nix 1MDB-Linked Illegal Lobbying Case

    Ex-Fugees member Prakazrel Michel lost his bid to nix charges relating to the 1Malaysia Development Bhd. political embezzlement scandal after a D.C. federal judge on Tuesday rejected contentions that Michel was singled out in a crowd of co-conspirators by pointing to a lack of evidence to infer discriminatory motivation by prosecutors.

  8. June 11, 2021

    Ex-Fugee, Fugitive Malaysian Hit With New 1MDB Charges

    Malaysian fugitive Jho Low and former Fugees rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel were charged for their alleged roles in the back-channel scheme to lobby then-President Donald Trump to drop an investigation into the 1Malaysia Development Berhad embezzlement scandal, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

  9. December 19, 2019

    The Biggest White Collar Cases Of 2019

    From men on the periphery of a presidential scandal to rich parents bribing their kids' way into college, 2019 was rife with headline-grabbing white collar cases, even while prosecutors suffered defeat in some of their most complicated fraud trials. Here, Law360 looks back at a few of the biggest white collar rulings of 2019.

  10. May 10, 2019

    Ex-Fugee, 1MDB Suspect Hit With Campaign Finance Charges

    Former Fugees rapper Pras Michel was charged alongside a suspect in Malaysia's 1MDB bond fraud scandal with a conspiracy to illegally funnel $1.9 million in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, prosecutors announced on Friday.

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