Anonymous ID: 61845e Jan. 28, 2019, 7:20 p.m. No.4946644   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6654 >>6704 >>6794 >>6807 >>6919 >>6920

WASHINGTON (AP) — A rapper and founding member of the 1990s hip-hop group The Fugees is fighting the U.S. government over a multimillion-dollar forfeiture complaint.

 

Prakazrel "Pras" Michel faces allegations in a civil forfeiture complaint that he participated in a scheme to try to influence a Justice Department investigation into corruption involving a Malaysian investment fund.

 

Justice Department officials are trying to recover roughly $38 million from Michel that they say can be connected to that scheme.

 

Barry Pollack, a lawyer for Michel, asked Monday to dismiss the complaint. He says there's no evidence that the funds in the accounts the government wants to seize are proceeds of fraud.

 

Michel has denied wrongdoing. He told The Washington Post in a statement last month that his name was being "dragged through the mud."

https://www.mdjonline.com/news/national/ex-fugees-member-pras-fights-us-forfeiture-complaint/article_90ff6b1a-9fe0-5705-bf6a-24f1b02e808a.html

 

Ex-Fugees rapper helped Jho Low funnel $73M into US accounts: feds

 

Ex-Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel has landed in the middle of an international corruption scandal that has ensnared Goldman Sachs — and attracted the attention of the Department of Justice.

 

According to an explosive suit filed Friday by the DOJ, the “Ghetto Superstar” singer conspired with an ex-DOJ official to thwart a federal probe into the $6 billion bribery and money-laundering scandal surrounding Malaysian playboy financier Jho Low, the DOJ alleged.

 

The funds had been earmarked to go to an unnamed financier and his wife, who would try to influence the DOJ to drop its criminal investigation into Low, according to the DOJ’s suit.

 

https://nypost.com/2018/11/30/ex-fugees-rapper-helped-jho-low-funnel-73m-into-us-accounts-feds/

Anonymous ID: 61845e Jan. 28, 2019, 7:24 p.m. No.4946704   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6794 >>6919 >>6975

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Altered states: The many possible faces of Jho Low

 

PETALING JAYA • Fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, may have assumed a new identity to evade arrest in a global corruption probe into state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), sources and experts have told The Star.

 

Police and immigration departments in Malaysia and Singapore assigned to track the 37-year-old believe he could have had facial reconstruction surgery.

 

"We believe he may have altered his features and has assumed an alias," a source said.

 

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/altered-states-the-many-possible-faces-of-jho-low

Anonymous ID: 61845e Jan. 28, 2019, 7:30 p.m. No.4946807   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6919 >>6975

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Alicia Key's old DJ

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DJ Iroc Accused Of Sexual Abuse of Teenagers

According to state police in Rensselaer County, complaints stemmed from claims DJ Iroc, real name Brian O. Angelo, sexually abused children in the Capital Region.

 

The Bronx DJ and producer rose to prominence in the 1980s as co-founder of Amerika's Most Wanted DJ's and Europe's Most Wanted DJ's. He also toured with the likes of Alicia Keys and co-hosted his own radio shows.

 

The Daily Gazette reports the 49-year-old was charged with one count of sexual conduct against a child, three counts of a criminal sex act, four counts of sexual abuse, four counts of forcible touching, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

 

https://allhiphop.com/news/dj-iroc-accused-of-sexual-abuse-of-teenagers-Ube_Swb6LUK2BR8zZnf2gw/

Anonymous ID: 61845e Jan. 28, 2019, 7:42 p.m. No.4946975   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Jho Low is implicated as the mastermind of the Malaysian 1MDB scandal that the DoJ believes saw US$4.5 billion siphoned off from the Malaysian state development fund. Low is currently the subject of several civil-asset forfeiture suits being pursued by the DoJ after evidence suggests Low, and others, used the money to purchase extravagant items, including a US$250 million super-yacht, a Pablo Picasso painting that he gifted to Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, luxury homes, and diamond jewellery.

He also allegedly used funds to finance the production of films, such as The Wolf of Wall Street.