A federal prosecutor on Thursday accused Grammy Award-winning rapper Prakazrel 'Pras' Michel of The Fugees hip hop group of illegally taking tens of millions of dollars to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of a Malaysian financier and the Chinese government.
WASHINGTON, March 30 - A federal prosecutor on Thursday accused Grammy Award-winning rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel of The Fugees hip hop group of illegally taking tens of millions of dollars to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of a Malaysian financier and the Chinese government.
"This is a case about foreign money, influence and concealment," Lockhart said during her opening statement in Washington on Thursday. In the first alleged scheme, prosecutors said Michel agreed to funnel about $2 million from Low into Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. Michel and Elliott Broidy, the former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, and other co-conspirators are accused of waging an "illegal back-channel" influence campaign to convince the Trump administration to back off on its investigation into Low.
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