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Judge Denies Retrial for Fugees Founder Pras Michel
Next up? His sentencing.
Pras Michel, a founding member of the Fugees and the first hip-hop artist to be convicted on charges of working as a covert agent of the Chinese government, hasn’t entirely run out of ways to avoid going to federal prison, but he’s getting close. Media attention has focused on the fact that Kenner used experimental AI software to draft a bizarre closing statement at Michel’s trial last year; the chatbot’s glitchy hallucinations misattributed two chart-topping tracks, Puff Daddy’s “I’ll Be Missing You” and Pras’s “Ghetto Supastar,” to the Fugees. Third, the Justice Department charged former Trump campaign adviser Dimitri Simes for taking more than $1 million while working for Russia’s Channel One, another Kremlin-controlled network, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.
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