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Fugees member Pras Michél has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was convicted on charges of conspiracy and illegal foreign lobbying.

A judge sentenced Michél on Thursday after he was convicted in April 2023 on 10 counts, including violating campaign finance laws during Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection bid and illegally lobbying the Donald Trump administration in 2017. According to Billboard, Michél was handed a 14-year sentence, which will be followed by three years of probation. He was facing 22 years behind bars.

Michél was initially charged in 2019 and went to trial four years later. The trial lasted for three weeks and included testimony from Leonardo DiCaprio on behalf of the prosecution. Just last month, Michél was ordered to forfeit more than $64 million after he was found guilty of orchestrating a foreign influence campaign to coax the United States into dropping an investigation into Malaysian financier Jho Low.

He attempted to get a retrial after claiming that his former lawyer David Kenner, best known for representing Suge Knight in his 2015 murder case, used artificial intelligence to come up with closing arguments. In early 2024, Kenner pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal contempt and was sentenced to one year of probation over his handling of discovery materials in Michel’s case.

Damn that's crazy

If you seen his DJ Vlad interviews...

He thought he was on some s*** like the beginning of the Ghetto Supastar video

i remember watching his episode of hodinkee and wondering how tf he had all those watches 😂 years later this stuff came out crazy he's actually gonna do time

He talked so freely and had all these random ass connections with people that made no sense at all in the run around stories, insights and explanations he would give about those connections, his so called businesses/workings and his money

PD Vlad got another 1

Didn’t he also get in trouble for like spying for China or some s*** a while back too lol

How the hell does a Haitian from Brooklyn even get involved in this type of s***

Why the hell does it taake so long to convict someone? Almost 7 years to b punished for ur crimes? The hell

Only Fugee members that matter are Lauryn and Wy. Pras been an opp

thats what this is about, yes. Hov is a billionaire, Diddy is in jail for trying to be epstein, & Shyne is a politician in another country who, as pusha t says, went jew. Never doubt a nigga from the block, he can do whatever he wants if he puts his mind to it

The system always been like this. You can be locked up for years and be sent home after 7 years when they realize you didn’t do s***. Then they say “not guilty” when you’re innocent. F*** Pras tho

Wasn't Wyclef embezzling money from his hurricane relief charity lol

Every Pras verse on The Score sounds hilariously amateurish when compared to Wyclef and Lauryn's , but he brings the vibes to that album

fugees might be the most terroristic rap group of all time lowkey lol

Just last month, Michél was ordered to forfeit more than $64 million after he was found guilty of orchestrating a foreign influence campaign to coax the United States into dropping an investigation into Malaysian financier Jho Low.

There is so much crazy s*** going on all the time

I like some of Leonardo DiCaprio’s movies but what does he know about orchestrating a foreign influence campaign

Pras somehow being richer than so many rappers is crazy lol

Life really is one battle after another huh

Jho Low let him hold a sneaky B, how do you have 64 million to lose as of last month and haven’t dropped music since 2007 🤨

The guy he was lobbying the govt to stop investigating stole 4.5 billion and “is allegedly living in Shanghai with a forged Australian passport under the name "Veis Constantinos Achilles” Pynchonian ass mf

Got damn son!!!! A 14 pack is some f*** s***

what in tarnation

he dropped the lawsuit against lauryn hill bossip.com/4523854/pras-michel-drops-lauryn-hill-lawsuit bro couldnt take any more losses

'Fine, take that $64 million that little ass money ain't nothing to me I'm Pras! '

Maybe it makes sense a little why pac had beef with dem.