A Rapper embezzled money into Obama's campaign

Rapper convicted of funneling foreign cash to Obama campaign wants retrial because his attorney used AI

A rapper who was convicted of funneling embezzled foreign money into former President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign is now seeking a new trial for the most bizarre, unprecedented reason.

Rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a former member of the rap group known as the Fugees, filed a motion Monday arguing that his former lawyer, David Kenner, had relied on artificial technology to draft his losing case.

Kenner “used an experimental artificial intelligence (AI) program to draft the closing argument, ignoring the best arguments and conflating the charged schemes, and he then publicly boasted that the AI program ‘turned hours or days of legal work into seconds,’” Michel’s new lawyers wrote in the motion.

After a three-week trial featuring a diverse set of witnesses ranging from Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, jurors took less than three days to convict Michel on all 10 felony charges he faced.”

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