{"id":761141,"date":"2026-07-13T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761141\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:53:13","slug":"boosie-badazz-trump-pardon-rapper-demands-refund-from-lobbyists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761141\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosie Badazz Trump Pardon: Rapper Demands Refund From Lobbyists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBoosie Badazz<\/a> reportedly paid $600,000 to a pair of lobbyists to seek a pardon from President Donald Trump \u2014 and now he\u2019s taking legal action to demand a refund after such an edict never materialized.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to a report by the news outlet NOTUS<\/a>, attorneys for Boosie (Torence Hatch) have filed an arbitration case against Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman and their firm JM Burkman & Associates over the failed pardon effort, which came as the rapper was facing sentencing<\/a> on gun possession charges.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe operatives pitched Boosie by \u201ctalking like they had Trump on speed dial,\u201d the rapper told NOTUS, and later \u201cmade it seem like a done deal.\u201d But clemency never came, and a White House official told the outlet the clemency office had \u201cnever heard from Wohl or Burkman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rapper\u2019s legal action, filed in March, demands the return of $300,000, the report says, citing a provision in his retainer contract with the lobbyists that required the return of half the payment if a pardon wasn\u2019t secured. Wohl and Burkman say that deal was never actually signed and want the case dismissed, according to legal documents released by NOTUS.<\/p>\n

\n\tJM Burkman & Associates and an attorney for Wohl and Burkman did not return requests for comment from Billboard. Multiple attorneys and a press rep for Boosie also did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoosie was charged in 2023 with illegally possessing a firearm, which is a crime for someone previously convicted of a felony. Following years of procedural ups and downs, the case against the Louisiana rapper was scheduled for a trial last summer. But in August, the rapper said he would accept a plea deal because he was \u201ctired of fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs he headed to sentencing, Boosie hired Wohl and Burkman to help seek a pardon, according to NOTUS. He would hardly have been the first rapper to get one: NBA YoungBoy<\/a> secured a Trump pardon in May 2025 on weapons and drug convictions, and Lil Wayne<\/a> got a full pardon in Trump\u2019s final days in office in 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough the pardon never came through, Boosie still avoided prison. At sentencing in January, a federal judge exercised leniency<\/a> and order him to serve only three years of supervised release instead. \u201cI\u2019m blessed not to be in prison right now,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut months later, he was back in trouble. In May, Boosie was hit with a felony assault charge<\/a> in Houston over accusations that he had smashed a nightclub bouncer in the head with a glass hookah.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rapper argued that the case was \u201cbasically a money grab\u201d by the bouncer, and was quickly released on bond. But last month his probation supervisors from the earlier federal gun case said that he should spend a year and a half in prison<\/a> because he had \u201cfailed to capitalize on the opportunity afforded by the court\u201d when it allowed him to remain free.<\/p>\n


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