Ex-Fugees Rapper Pras Michel Convicted in Foreign-Influence Scheme Tied to China and 1MDB

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Source: The Wall Street Journal
Ex-Fugees Rapper Pras Michel Convicted in Foreign-Influence Scheme Tied to China and 1MDB
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Former Fugees rapper Pras Michel has been found guilty of being the central figure in a multimillion-dollar foreign-influence scheme that involved illegal lobbying of the Trump administration and injecting millions of dollars in donations to Barack Obama's re-election campaign in 2012. The scheme spanned two presidencies and combined celebrity with political intrigue.

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