Leonardo DiCaprio took the witness stand in the case against former Fugees member Pras Michel, telling jurors that his team vetted a key 'Wolf of Wall Street' investor who is accused of stealing billions of dollars.
DiCaprio said he understood Low was a “prodigy in the business world,” but still had his representatives and lawyers vet this investor"to see whether the financing was good or not and safe to accept."
In this Washington, D.C., trial, which began last week, Low and Michel are accused of conspiring to use straw donors to funnel millions of dollars of the businessman's money to the 2012 campaign of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.to the Democratic Party in 2012, which had Obama at the top of the ticket. The actor remembered saying “wow, that’s a lot of money" at the moment.
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