{"id":771717,"date":"2026-07-19T08:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771717\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:05:24","slug":"rapper-boosie-badazz-demands-refund-from-maga-lobbyists-who-failed-to-getting-trump-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771717\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Boosie Badazz demands refund from MAGA lobbyists who failed to getting Trump pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rapper Boosie BadAzz<\/a> is demanding a refund from a lobbying firm that failed to deliver a pardon from President Trump.<\/p>\n

The Louisiana rapper approached Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl of JM Burkman & Associates in September 2025 and paid them $600,000 to\u00a0secure a pardon\u00a0<\/a>from President Trump for federal gun charges from 2023,\u00a0according to the sign agreement that as reviewed by The Post.<\/p>\n

Boosie\u2019s agreement shows that if the pardon was not obtained by 5:00 p.m. on Jan. 1, the firm had to provide a $300,000 refund.<\/p>\n

\"RapperHip-hop artist Boosie BadAzz has a beef with two MAGA lobbyists after he paid them $600,000 to secure a pardon for federal gun charges from 2023. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThis contract was prepared by and signed by Burkman & Associates, including the return of funds provision,\u201d Boosie\u2019s Baton Rogue-based lawyer, Jill Craft, told The Post. \u201cWe expect them to live up to their end of the signed contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old, whose real name is Torrence Hatch Jr., thought he was going to start 2026 on the right foot after receiving a\u00a0New Year\u2019s Eve text message from Burkman, who wrote that Trump had the pardon \u201cin hand and is ready to sign,\u201d according to online news outlet News of the United States.<\/p>\n

EVERYONE U SAID U REACHED OUT TO FOR MY PARDON HAS SAID U R LYING \u203c\ufe0fEVERY NAME YOU NAMED HAS DENIED YOUR ALLEGATIONS \u203c\ufe0f EVERYBODY U NAMED WILL HAVE THEY TIME TO SPEAK. ITS GETTING HOT \ud83d\ude01SO WHERE DID THE MONEY GO ? I THOUGHT TRUMP SIGNED THE PARDON? I THOUGHT U HAD THE PRESIDENT\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Boosie BadAzz (@BOOSIEOFFICIAL) July 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

The rapper received a call\u00a0from his San Diego-based attorney on Jan. 1,\u00a0Meghan Blanco, who told him that Burkman had informed her\u00a0that the\u00a0president had granted him legal forgiveness for possessing a firearm as a felon and that White House was going to make an announcement.<\/p>\n

However, the\u00a0presidential pardon\u00a0<\/a>was never signed.\u00a0Blanco, who represented the rapper in the gun case, told the outlet that a White House aide informed her several days later that they had not seen an application for a pardon.<\/p>\n

The White House did not reply to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

A US District Judge in San Diego on Jan. 9 sentenced the rapper to three years supervised release and credited him for 10 days that he had served in jail. The sentence also included 300 hours of community service<\/p>\n

Boosie filed a lawsuit\u00a0March 25 with the American Arbitration Association, requesting that Wohl and Burkman return half of the retainer fee.<\/p>\n

The rapper, who was arrested in May for assaulting a Houston nightclub bouncer, went after the lobbyists Monday on X.<\/p>\n

\"BoosieThe hip-hop artist filed a lawsuit in March, requesting half of the retainer fee. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cDONT START LYING NOW I GAVE U 3 MONTHS TO SEND MY MONEY BACK,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n

In a separate post, the rapper claimed Burkman and Wohl mentioned that they had reached out to House Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ill), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and conservative activists and commentators Laura Loomer, Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobeich and Erika Kirk during his attempt to win a pardon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Loomer and Cernovich reached out to Boosie via X to say that they were unaware of his case and were never involved.<\/p>\n

LAURA LOOMER
MIKE CERNOVICH
JACK POSOBIEC
ERIKA KIRK
MIKE JOHNSON
NANCY MASE
ANDY BIGGS<\/p>\n

CAN THE NAMES ABOVE PLEASE MAKE A TRUTHFUL STATEMENT ABOUT HAVING CONTACT R NO CONTACT WITH BURKMAN N WHOL ABOUT MY PARDON PROCESS. 600k WAS TAKEN FROM ME WITH YOUR NAMES MENTIONED N EMAILS\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Boosie BadAzz (@BOOSIEOFFICIAL) July 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Mace addressed Boosie\u2019s concerns on X, posting: \u201cOur office received an email requesting a phone call. My staff took one phone call last October. Our office promised nothing, and they never followed up. To our knowledge. More than willing to assist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEVERYONE U SAID U REACHED OUT TO FOR MY PARDON HAS SAID U R LYING,\u201d Boosie BadAzz wrote on X. \u201cITS GETTING HOT SO WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a statement to The Post, JM Burkman & Associates said it worked hard to win the pardon, but noted there was never an agreement to refund half of the retainer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 25 years, we cannot think of a single client for whom our firm has\u00a0done more work than Boosie,\u201d the firm said. \u201cNo\u00a0provision to return half the fee was ever actually\u00a0agreed to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wohl and Burkman have been in previous legal trouble. <\/p>\n

In 2022, they pleaded guilty in Ohio to telecommunications fraud for operating an illicit robocall campaign reportedly targeting black voters. They also pleaded no contest in Michigan and reached an agreement with New York Attorney General Leticia James to pay a $1.5 million fine for running similar schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Boosie BadAzz is demanding a refund from a lobbying firm that failed to deliver a pardon from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[14490,8679,12,88,3130,130960,216,36597,111,2186,194],"class_list":["post-771717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-artists","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-lawsuits","tag-lobbyists","tag-music","tag-pardons","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}