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Pras Michel’s Ex-Lawyer Pleading Guilty to Contempt Charge for Leaking Sealed Docs

Already facing claims that he botched the rapper’s defense, attorney David Kenner will “accept responsibility” for violating a court confidentiality order.

Michel, a founding member of the influential hip-hop group Fugees, was charged in 2019 with funneling money from a now-fugitive Malaysian financier through straw donors to Barack Obama ’s 2012 re-election campaign. Throughout the trial, Michel was represented by Kenner, a well-known Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who has previously worked for hip-hop luminaries like Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight and, most recently, Tory Lanez. “Kenner’s conflict of interest—owing to his significant stress and distraction from the contempt charges, and his incentive to curry favor with the prosecution and pursue an unaggressive defense—adversely affected his performance at trial,” Michel’s new lawyers wrote back in October.

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