{"id":140946,"date":"2025-11-20T23:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140946"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:45:02","slug":"fugees-pras-michel-jailed-for-14-years-over-illegal-donations-to-obama-campaignunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140946","title":{"rendered":"Fugees\u2019 Pras Michel jailed for 14 years over illegal donations to Obama campaignUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostGrammy-winning rapper Prakazrel \u201cPras\u201d Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funnelling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former US president Barack Obama\u2019s 2012 re-election campaign.<br \/>\nMichel, 52, declined to address the court before US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced him.<br \/>\nIn April 2023, a federal jury convicted Michel of 10 counts, including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3333611\/fugees-pras-michel-jailed-14-years-over-illegal-donations-obamas-2012-campaign?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostGrammy-winning rapper Prakazrel \u201cPras\u201d Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140946"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}