Pras is hoping this newest attraction will spring him from federal jail.

Fugees’ rapper Pras Michel has formally filed an attraction to overturn his present 14-year federal jail bid for cash laundering.

On Dec.4, Pras filed a Discover of Enchantment within the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the DC Circuit in hopes of getting his conviction and jail sentence tossed.

The “Ghetto Famous person” crafter was discovered responsible in April 2023 on 10 counts, together with conspiracy, unlawful overseas lobbying, cash laundering, witness tampering, and performing as an unregistered agent of a overseas authorities.

Michel allegedly accepted greater than $100 million from a Malaysian financier, Jho Low, to affect U.S. politics and assist preserve Low from being extradited to the US.

Whereas Pras is at present preventing for his freedom, Low stays on the run.

Initially, Pras was convicted beneath the International Brokers Registration Act (FARA), a uncommon prosecution that requires people who converse on behalf of overseas governments and their principals to register with the Division of Justice. He was additionally ordered to forfeit $65 million.

His authorized staff unsuccessfully argued that he deserved probation, claiming Low had manipulated Pras and that the rapper gave again to the group by means of philanthropic endeavors. The court docket wasn’t shopping for it.

In one other weird declare, Pras accused his earlier attorneys of utilizing synthetic intelligence relating to their closing arguments.

In a short he filed, the rapper referred to as for a brand new trial, claiming his lawyer “made frivolous arguments, misapprehended the required components, conflated the schemes and ignored vital weaknesses within the authorities’s case.”

Whereas it did change into one of many first instances to make the most of “generative AI,” he was nonetheless denied a brand new trial.

Pras’ present attraction might take months or years to play out.