Boosie has filed a lawsuit over a major financial headache, claiming he dropped a massive amount of cash on a presidential pardon, only to end up with an empty promise and a hefty bill. Now, he’s demanding a serious refund.
According to a bombshell report from NOTUS, Boosie is taking legal action against political operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman. The rapper allegedly gave $600,000 to help secure a pardon from President Trump, but Boosie says the pardon never actually occurred.
The report claims that Boosie, whose legal name is Torence Hatch, struck a deal with the duo last fall after they pitched themselves as having major pull inside Trump’s inner circle. Boosie alleges they were so confident, they acted like they had POTUS “on speed dial.” Things allegedly took a turn on New Year’s Day when Boosie’s attorney received word that Trump had already signed the pardon, but the White House just hadn’t made the big announcement yet. But come to find out, the pardon never surfaced. Now, Boosie is fighting to recoup $300,000, pointing to a clause in their contract that supposedly requires a 50% refund if the pardon isn’t delivered.
When it came time to pay up, Burkman and Wohl allegedly refused, claiming no such refund agreement existed and that their firm was effectively broke due to millions in fines from previous legal drama.
Burkman tells TMZ … “Boosie has no reason to be unhappy. In 30 years of lobbying, I doubt we have ever done more work and harder work. The provision in the contract he is referencing was never agreed to at all. The other factor is that Boosie’s quest for a pardon was made much tougher by an arrest for an alleged crime of violence in Texas earlier this year. We tried very, very hard.”
To make matters worse, the report notes that a White House official flatly denied the pair had any role in the pardon process, stating the clemency team had “never heard from” Wohl or Burkman and warning that their involvement would actually do more harm than good.
In the end, Boosie didn’t receive clemency, though he did later receive a sentence of time served in his federal gun case. He remains hopeful that a separate pardon application filed directly with the White House will eventually get the green light.