A rapper who was formerly with the Fugees has been indicted for allegedly funneling illegal donations to the Obama campaign!!
He and a Malaysian playboy, who doesn’t know how to get very good return on his money:
The feds have slapped new charges against fugitive Malaysian playboy Jho Low — this time for alleged campaign-finance violations connected to President Obama’s 2012 re-election.
The latest allegations accuse Low of transferring $21.6 million to ex-Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, who then moved $865,000 of that money to “straw” donors who contributed to an Obama fundraising committee.
The new indictment against the pair, unsealed Friday in Washington, DC, says the money was destined to “Candidate A.”
The link to Obama was first reported by Bloomberg News.
Hmmm. Makes you wonder what other illegal campaign donations might be hiding out there. Kinda nice that it took so long to dig this out, huh?
Michel is additionally charged with transferring another $1 million of Low’s money to an unidentified independent committee involved in the 2012 election.
“Michel recruited his friends, associates, and others to act as straw donors to make contributions,” the indictment alleges.
Very interesting, especially since Democrats keep whining that only Republicans cheat in elections. Would $856k make a big difference in a billion dollar election? Probably not. But we’ll never know because it took years to catch it….
Here’s Pras from a few months ago saying that they’re only coming after him because he’s black:
He sounds pretty confident that he’s gonna beat it.
Full disclosure: I loved the Fugees music. Darn good stuff. If you’re into that sort of thing.
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Here’s some comment fodder:
https://twitter.com/dmturner1232/status/1127320221990043648Man, I don’t know who thought this was a good idea:
Movie Name: #Loqueesha
— Cory Provost (@coryprovost) May 11, 2019
Movie Plot: White guy gets rejected for his radio show idea decides to pretend to be a black woman gets the job and now he can pay for his kids' private school.
Coming to a theater near you. pic.twitter.com/MorjMTwhf1
Yeah, they’re going crazy over the premise.
The rebuilt Notre Dame could feature a futuristic glass design, solar power, and an urban farm that supports vulnerable and homeless Parisians, if one architecture firm's vision is realized https://t.co/epovaA09nC pic.twitter.com/wjySUc1PUT
— CNN (@CNN) May 10, 2019
Horrible.
This is hilarious, but some cursing, OK a LOT of cursing:
https://twitter.com/politijoe1/status/1126837562189012993See you tomorrow!!