Pras’ Former Attorney Pleads Guilty To Leaking Rapper’s Files

Pras‘s former attorney, David Kenner, has pleaded guilty to leaking confidential federal grand jury files to two reporters in 2023, which is in direct violation of federal rules.

According to court documents obtained by HipHopDX, the United States District Court in Washington, DC, has found probable cause that the ex-attorney for the Fugees rapper “committed misdemeanor contempt in violation of 18 USC 401 (c)” by leaking some of the files to the jurors in question.

Kenner is expected to plead guilty to the charge on Friday (January 26), where he will receive his sentence.

“Unfortunately, former attorney David Kenner failed at every turn to competently represent Pras over the course of this lengthy legal battle,” said Erica Dumas, the spokesperson for Pras, in a statement furnished to HipHopDX.

Earlier this month, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly called for a three-day hearing to review some of David Kenner’ s techniques throughout his useless protection for the Fugees celebrity, that is presently encountering two decades behind bars on 10 criminal matters.

Though the attorney has actually preserved that he had his customer’s benefits in mind, Marauder has actually reported that he presently remains in the hot spot for numerous factors such as contracting out the majority of the casework to a clinical negligence legal representative that ran from another location.

Kenner is additionally implicated of taking greater than a year to submit his very first movement, partnering with individuals with almost no experience in criminal lawsuits and hiding a major injury that impeded his efficiency.

In spite of his claimed inexperience and underperformance, district attorney Nicole Lockhart preserves that “unsuccessful is not the same as ineffective.”

The justice commanding the hearing, nevertheless, is still offering Pras the advantage of the uncertainty. Over the coming weeks, she will certainly either sentence him, give him a retrial, or permit plea-bargain arrangements.

Back in April, Pras was founded guilty of cash laundering and invalid lobbying techniques. Simply a couple of months later on, he started pursuing bringing his instance back to life on premises of his ex-attorney evidently ruining “the single most important portion” of his protection by utilizing generative AI to create a closing declaration.

“Kenner’s closing argument made frivolous arguments, misapprehended the required elements, conflated the schemes and ignored critical weaknesses in the government’s case,” the New Jacket local’s brand-new lawful group mentioned in a quick. “The AI program failed Kenner, and Kenner failed [Pras] Michel. The closing argument was deficient, unhelpful and a missed opportunity that prejudiced the defense.”

They additionally explained that the celebrity legal representative, that notoriously stood for Fatality Row Records in the ’90s, has an economic risk in a firm that companions with the modern technology he utilized and afterwards flaunted around.