The Fugees Cancel Tour 3 Days Before 1st Show

[LurkerSix]

...so Pras escaped prison??

He was found guilty last year. Dude swears up and down he’s not a fed informant yet he was ready to go on a national tour and he’s been running free for over a year.

When is his sentencing?

Last news I heard about him is this stuff. After this there are no updates so im guessing hes awaiting sentencing still

Former lawyer for Fugees rapper fined and sentenced to probation in contempt case

The lawyer, David Kenner, called the conviction a “low point” in his 56-year career and admitted that his conduct was “reckless.”

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A former lawyer for Fugees rapper Pras Michel was sentenced Friday to one year of unsupervised probation and will have to pay a fine after he admitted to violating a court order by sharing protected discovery material with reporters in the run-up to his client’s 2023 trial.

David Kenner, 82, agreed to plead guilty to one count of criminal contempt as part of a deal with prosecutors that ensured he would not face jail time.

Could the Fugees Founding Member Actually Get a Retrial?

During a three-day hearing earlier this month, a federal judge just wanted to know why Michel’s former lawyer was so bad.

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If you were a Grammy-winning hip-hop star facing 20 years in prison on charges that you’re a secret agent of the Chinese government, you’d probably hope none of your lawyers would ask if they can work from home. You’d hope! But during his trial last year, the founding member of the Fugees was unaware that Kenner was outsourcing nearly all of the case work to a medical malpractice lawyer in Minneapolis who didn’t attend the trial because he refused to leave behind his two adopted pit bulls, Kirby and Marney.

The malpractice lawyer, Bill Maddix, referred to the rescued pups as his “associates” and insisted that not only did the dogs have no one else to care for them — “They’re kinda aggressive,” Maddix told me after the hearing — but he would be more productive if he worked from home. Kenner urged him to make the trip, but it was futile. “He wouldn’t come,” Kenner explained on the witness stand. “He had the pit bulls.”

But nine months after Michel was convicted on a sprawling white-collar criminal indictment, the pit-bull drama was one of the more harmless revelations from the three-day evidentiary hearing called by Kollar-Kotelly in mid-January. Michel’s new lawyers with the Washington, D.C., power firm ArentFox Schiff have filed several motions advocating for a retrial, but Kollar-Kotelly focused on one argument in particular: that Kenner had so egregiously underperformed in so many ways that he violated Michel’s constitutional right to effective representation.

Michel’s new lead counsel, Peter Zeidenberg, examined Kenner on the stand for more than five hours on January 10, demanding explanations for his mystifying strategies handling the former Fugee member’s case. Why did it take more than a year to file his first motion? Why did he bring two lawyers onto the case with near-zero criminal litigation experience? Was it helpful when he incriminated Michel in the first sentence of his closing statement? Why did he recite factual inaccuracies from a buggy artificial intelligence bot in his closing statement? Following Michel’s crushing, ten-count conviction, why did a company registered at Kenner’s law office put out a joint press release touting the bot’s success at Michel’s trial?

Hovering above all of these questions was the very human and unavoidable issue of Kenner’s health. After a fall in September 2022 that sent him to the emergency room and left him with several injuries and doctors’ orders to refrain from work, Kenner moved to delay the trial, acknowledging in a sealed statement “his inability to provide effective assistance of counsel.” Though he submitted this to the court along with his medical records, at no point did Kenner tell Michel about the extent of his injuries. “The hearing established that Kenner was clearly overmatched and the grave consequences of that fact,” said Pelletier.

To all of these facts and allegations about Kenner’s missteps, the Justice Department made one simple rebuttal. “Unsuccessful is not the same as ineffective,” said prosecutor Nicole Lockhart about Kenner’s performance.

Dude is facing FED charges in DC & he hires a Cali botox face, 80 year old man, who's only claim to fame was him being the lawyer who got Snoop off his murder case in the 90's. This kinda judgment is how he got himself in this situation in the first place.
And yea i believe he did the shit the FEDs claimed he did. Asian dude just gave him all the rope and the FEDs watched him hang himself and they scooped him up after for a easy win.

 

[Chi-Town B]

Just like I say to fans to stop supporting her I gotta say to Wyclef and Pras to stop fucking with her.

 

[Blue_London]

I hope they don't cancel their Europe tour.

 

[BlackRain]

4pgs and counting of niggas disrespecting her music, her legacy, and her person bc the media has over reported on her shows promptness

Niggas have always been harsh fans but this new level of demonizing the greats wouldn't want me wasting my time doing shows here either

Lol she did that to her own legacy

 

[Lab Baby]

Pras trash as usual I see.

 

[a.mann]

She must be suffering from some kind of illness

Narcissism

 

[BMDC]

Well if we factor the solo careers then yea but as a group naw

Pras isn't a legend basically