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    Former DOJ lawyer faces disbarment for entanglement in ‘one of the largest kleptocracy schemes in history’

    By Debra Cassens Weiss

    April 17, 2025, 3:07 pm CDT

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    Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a member of the Fugees, a hip-hop group, is seen during a press conference at a hotel in Erbil, Iraq, in July 2015. (Photo by Hamit Huseyin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

    A lawyer who worked for the U.S. Department of Justice is facing disbarment after pleading guilty for his role in an illegal foreign influence scheme that allegedly stemmed from his friendship and legal work for hip-hop artist Prakazrel “Pras” Michel.

    Lawyer George A. Higginbotham, a former senior congressional affairs specialist at the DOJ, prepared fake loan documents, investment agreements and consulting agreements to hide the source of tens of millions of dollars intended to be used to lobby the U.S. government, according to the April 16 opinion by the Appellate Division’s Second Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court.

    The Legal Profession Blog published highlights.

    Higginbotham’s work was intended to facilitate lobbying for the extradition of a political dissident to China and to resolve an investigation of a foreign national who orchestrated a multibillion-dollar embezzlement scheme involving a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.

    Higginbotham was working on behalf of Michel, who wanted help with his dealings with the foreign national, Jho Low, according to Higginbotham’s testimony, as reported by Reuters, at Michel’s trial in April 2023.

    Higginbotham entangled himself in a conspiracy to avoid prosecution “in one of the largest kleptocracy schemes in history,” the appeals court said. “Anything less than a disbarment is unwarranted.”

    Higginbotham pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to make false statements to a bank in November 2018, according to a press release. He did not influence any aspect of the DOJ investigation involving the investment company known as 1MDB.

    Higginbotham was sentenced to probation in November 2023 and ordered to forfeit $70,000, the amount of money that he was paid after submitting invoices for work in the scheme.

    Michel was convicted of conspiracy and other charges in April 2023 for using straw donors in the lobbying campaign.

    Low was convicted and sentenced in absentia to 10 years in a Kuwaiti prison, the New York Post reported in March 2023.

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    Despite lyrics mistake by AI, lawyer wasn’t ineffective for using tech in rapper’s case, federal judge says


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