Rapper Michel Says Jho Low Paid $20 Million for Obama Photo (1)

Grammy-winning rapper Pras Michel told jurors Tuesday at his illegal-lobbying trial that the party-boy Malaysian tycoon Jho Low — once a friend and now a fugitive — paid him $20 million to get a photo with President Barack Obama in 2012.

Michel told a federal jury in Washington that Low hired him to be a “celebrity surrogate” to get the photo. The rapper is accused of using straw donors to funnel illegal donations from Low into Obama’s campaign. Prosecutors say he later illegally lobbied President Donald Trump’s administration to drop US probes of Low’s alleged looting of billions of ...