WASHINGTON, April 27 — A jury yesterday 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 influencing the US government under two presidents.
Low, who also faces separate federal charges in New York that he embezzled US$4.5 billion from Malaysia’s 1Malaysia Development Berhad sovereign wealth fund, remains at large. “I remain enormously confident that this case is not over, and that we will ultimately prevail,” he added.. But by 2012, according to prosecutors, Michel was in desperate need of cash and found a solution through Low, who was known to throw elaborate parties and pay celebrities big sums of money.
On the witness stand, Michel said the US$20 million Low paid him over the course of nine months in 2012 was to help Low secure a photo with Obama. Michel acknowledged that he used some of the money to pay for three of his friends to attend two political fundraisers for Obama’s 2012 campaign, but denied doing so at Low’s direction.
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