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Facing Decades in Prison, Fugees’ Pras Michél Speaks Out in First Post-Conviction Interview: ‘Never Wanted to Be a Spy’
Facing two decades in prison, Fugees member Pras Michél has spoken out in his first post-conviction interview, saying he 'never wanted to be a spy.'
A week after that meeting, federal agents swooped in on Michél, claiming that he was involved in a massive financial scandal that resulted in the siphoning of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fun referred to as 1MDB, with the U.S. government tagging the rapper as a Chinese spy. He was accused of funneling money from fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low through straw donors to Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, a well as trying to help scuttle a Justice Department investigation into an extradition case on behalf of China during Trump’s first term. Given the cinematic scope of the story, Variety reported that there are at least three books on the subject in the works, with Idris Elba in talks with Michél’s reps about acquiring his life rights and an upcoming documentary about the rapper’s part in the scandal.
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