From Najib's 1MDB to Jho Low's money, followed by jail sentence for American singer


US rapper sentenced to 14 years in jail for funnelling Jho Low’s money to Obama campaign

An American rapper has been handed a 14-year jail sentence for illegally funnelling money from fugitive financier Jho Low to former president Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, The Edge Malaysia reported on Friday, 21 November 2025.

Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the hip hop group Fugees declined to address the court before US District judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced him, the Associated Press reported. Michel, 52, will appeal his conviction and sentence, his lawyer was cited as saying by the newswire.

The 14-year sentence is “completely disproportionate to the offence”, Michel’s defence attorney Peter Zeidenberg was quoted as saying.

Just last month, Michel was ordered to forfeit about US$65 million (RM269.4 million) to the US government after he was found guilty in the case linked to the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal.

Michel was a founding member of the Fugees that won two Grammy Awards and peaked in the 1990s.

He was convicted in April 2023 of charges including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. The star-studded trial included testimony from Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

Prosecutors accused Michel of campaign-finance conspiracy, getting over US$120 million from Jho Low and moving some of that money to Obama’s campaign. Born Low Taek Jho, the Malaysian businessman himself is alleged to have siphoned billions from 1MDB.

Michel also attempted to help lobby the US Justice Department to abandon its investigations into Jho Low. He was also charged with tampering with witnesses and lying under oath.

1MDB, created by former prime minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak in 2009, has been embroiled in graft and money-laundering investigations spanning more than a dozen jurisdictions from the US to Switzerland and from the United Arab Emirates to Singapore.

Najib himself has since been found guilty in a case involving 1MDB’s former subsidiary, and was sentenced to 12 years' jail and fined RM210 million. He has been granted a partial pardon, which reduces his prison term to six years and fine to RM50 million.

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