Why Has A Big Hollywood/D.C. Corruption Trial With Genuine Movie Stars Mostly Been Ignored?

You Know Why!

Like Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial for child trafficking, cameras were not allowed during the trial of Fugees founding member Pras Michel, accused of funneling illegal foreign million$ to the Obama presidential campaign for a Malaysian surrogate. Can you imagine the attention this trial would get if cameras had been allowed to show Leonardo DiCaprio’s insightful and down-to-earth testimony? The memes!

“The press has gone and made another mess of it / Just because they got so much invested in it / You'll never be the same / Cuz everyone's corrupted by fame…” Van Morrison, “Fame”

“Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why we win.” — Syriana (2005)

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There’s been an interesting literal Revelation of the Method when it comes to foreign money controlling the USA election process and the first two terms of the Barrack Hussein Obama (p)residency specifically, thanks to the Justice system actually doing what it’s supposed to do (so far).

The reason you’ve probably not heard about it — or even if you have you’ve not gotten the full story — is because the controlled corrupt collectivist corporate clown media is not doing the job it is supposed to do. 

In short: Oscar-winning Movie Star Leonardo DiCaprio testified before a federal court early this week about the alleged involvement of a crooked Malaysian financier named Jho Low to launder money funneled through one of the founders of the legendary 1990s rap group The Fugees in order to donate tens of millions of dollars to the second Obama presidential campaign in 2012. 

Strictly speaking from even a simple nuts’n’bolts, meat’n’potato PR perspective for TV ratings and clickbait, this story involves political corruption, a pioneering rap superstar, a former president, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hollywood and millions and millions of dollars. What’s not to like about this news story, from a viral gossip and hyperbolic headline point-of-view? How come the Los Angeles Times and New York Times haven’t printed a peep and all the late night talk show “influencers” are avoiding the easy punch lines like America’s moms are eschewing the mRNA covid booster for their kids?

Of course I’m joking. You know what’s not to like, and you know who doesn’t like it. The story is not favorable to the occupying regime, one tendril of which includes one of its subjects: The Obama machine and its oily octopus-like trans-formational tentacles into the music industry, Netflix, Hollywood, advertising, journalism, and of course the Democratic Party (or whatever it actually is now—the parasite has taken over its host!). 

But DiCaprio, who’s played both gangster and cop, threw the rapper under the bus when put on the stand, as prosecutors sought to tie the iconic hip-hop group Fugees’ founder Prakazrel “Pras” Michel to the notorious Malaysian financier Jho Low, claiming Pras assisted in the funneling of Low’s money to Obama’s reelection bid. This was necessary because foreigners cannot donate to US campaigns under federal election law. CNN gives a decent rundown here (but not on TV, best I can tell).

Before he became an international fugitive, Jho Low was known in the gossip columns as the high-rolling free-spending “Nightclub Whale,” notorious for “his crazy partying ways in New York, Las Vegas & San Tropez,” where he was linked with numerous celebrities-for-rent like Padma Lakshmi and Paris Hilton.

The prosecution asserts that Pras Michel was given more than $21 million from foreign accounts linked to Jho Low. The rapper then paid out varying sums to roughly 20 straw donors, who were then expected to make contributions to the Obama campaign in their names. This way, the money wouldn’t be traced back to Low.

The reason this came to light is not because it’s a gross insult to American election sovereignty, nor because of the alarming corruption that is evermore exposed about the first two Obama administrations (which I voted for twice), but because it turned out the vast majority of the donated money was (allegedly) stolen. That’s one way everybody got caught in the illegal election financing scam: The source of their cash was as dirty as they way they were doling it out.

In what’s the latest real-life example of how you just can’t trust criminals, the illegal campaign contributions from Jho Low came via the cash he’s been accused of embezzling: A jaw-dropping $4.5 billion from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund known as “1MDB,” which is the acronym for Malaysia’s state investment fund, the “1Malaysia Development Berhad.” 

Quick rewind: The 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal was called the single biggest kleptocracy case in history by the U.S. Dept. of Justice in 2016. Yet I’ll bet it’s another thing you never heard about because of corporate media blackout. 

The 1MDB scandal involved a literal conspiracy of corruption, bribery, money laundering and shameless inside-job financial manipulations, during which the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB was embezzled from systematically, its assets diverted globally by the conspirators who plotted the scheme, which is about as textbook conspiracy as it gets (i.e., fox guarding henhouse). The financial theft conspiracy had global scope and implicated institutions and individuals in politics, banking, and entertainment. The milquetoast Wikipedia explanation makes for a decent primer on the subject. 

Of course you can see why this story, too, would be ignored by the controlled corrupt collectivist corporate clown media. It’s a real conspiracy, but the media message is those things don’t exist, especially in finance, and especially during an age when big finance primarily owns big media. So conspiracies don’t exist!

Until they do. In 2015 Jho Low got caught with a bunch of other parasites accused of embezzling billions of dollars from Malaysia’s 1MDB, which led to investigations and charges in several countries, including the USA. The long, slow digestive system of justice is finally crapping out a trial for the Fugees guy and his connection to Jho Low (JLo?) in April 2023. 

Scapegoats are needed because…Jho Low’s not even here to prosecute! Low’s been on the lam, a fugitive from justice, ever since the scandal broke. Nobody’s seen him, but foreign policy gossip and the fed front men on the ‘Chans say he’s hiding out in Macau and moves about rather freely in China. Jho Low has ofc denied doing anything wrong, he loves America!, and bitches to anyone who will listen that the charges against him are all entirely politically motivated.

But the collateral damage of his crimes have trickled down to the now-professionally-expendable, guys like Pras Michel, who had their day — people forget but The Fugees’ 1996 album The Score was once the biggest selling rap album of all time, 7x platinum — but that day is done. 

All the world’s a stage. Everybody plays their role, and that role can change once you sell out to the machine, which may tie its fate to yours but even more crucially does the opposite as well. Yesterday’s man of the moment is tomorrow’s fall guy. Which might make another Fugees founder, Wyclef Jean, a trifle nervous about all that Haiti charity money that got moved around with the Clinton Foundation. And don’t even start to look into what they did to Lauren Hill. 

I actually listened to this excellent album a lot back in the day, a quarter-century ago, ye godz. It was a large part of my life for a short period of my life when I was education reporter at The Cherokee Tribune in Canton, GA. A local high school basketball coach played the album at a high school team practice and got suspended because it violated a recently created county school board rule banning violent, sexual or obscene rap music at school functions. The teacher/coach then resigned, which made it a big national story for a day or two, TV crews and corporate media all around town, which sparked that thrilling feeling of being at the center of the zeitgeist. Then there was a teen murder a couple months later, TV crews back again. Two massive national stories, never before or since like that in rural sleepy Cherokee County, and both happened during my 14 months working at the newspaper.