Fugees Rapper Pras Michel Faces Trial for Alleged Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme.

Pras Michél, a former member of the Fugees, is on trial for illegally funneling $2 million in stolen foreign money into a U.S. presidential campaign and scheming to quash an FBI investigation of the corrupt Malaysian financier who supplied the cash. Michél is accused of enlisting straw donors to contribute the $2 million in permissible increments to the Obama campaign, without the campaign knowing the money’s actual source. Michél has pleaded not guilty to a 12-count indictment accusing him of money laundering, campaign-finance violations, acting as an unregistered agent for foreign nationals, witness tampering and lying to banks.