The former hip-hop star is accused of illegally funneling $2 million in stolen foreign money into a U.S. presidential campaign and scheming to quash an FBI investigation.
with the financier, Low Taek Jho, who authorities said used part of his ill-gotten fortune to start a production company that put up $100 million to make the Oscar-nominated 2013 movie.
After acquiring the film rights to the memoir “The Wolf of Wall Street,” by confessed stock swindler Jordan Belfort, DiCaprio has said, he was frustrated by studio executives who declined to greenlight the kind of movie he wanted to make. He has said he was unaware of thewhen he reached a production deal with the company backed by Low, who disappeared before being indicted and is believed to be in China.
The former hip-hop star, now 50, was a founding member of the influential trio the Fugees before the group, which won two Grammy Awards, split up in 1997. After Michél’s solo career ebbed in the 2000s, prosecutors said, he became involved in illegal financial dealings with Low.in U.S. District Court to a 12-count indictment charging him with money laundering, campaign-finance violations, acting as an unregistered agent for foreign nationals, witness tampering and lying to banks.
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