Rapper Boosie BadAzz is demanding a refund from a lobbying agency that didn’t ship a pardon from President Trump.
The Louisiana rapper approached Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl of JM Burkman & Associates in September 2025 and paid them $600,000 to safe a pardon from President Trump for federal gun expenses from 2023, based on the signal settlement that as reviewed by The Publish.
Boosie’s settlement exhibits that if the pardon was not obtained by 5:00 p.m. on Jan. 1, the agency had to offer a $300,000 refund.
“This contract was ready by and signed by Burkman & Associates, together with the return of funds provision,” Boosie’s Baton Rogue-based lawyer, Jill Craft, advised The Publish. “We count on them to reside as much as their finish of the signed contract.”
The 43-year-old, whose actual identify is Torrence Hatch Jr., thought he was going to start out 2026 on the correct foot after receiving a New Yr’s Eve textual content message from Burkman, who wrote that Trump had the pardon “in hand and is able to signal,” based on on-line information outlet Information of the USA.
The rapper obtained a name from his San Diego-based legal professional on Jan. 1, Meghan Blanco, who advised him that Burkman had knowledgeable her that the president had granted him authorized forgiveness for possessing a firearm as a felon and that White Home was going to make an announcement.
Nonetheless, the presidential pardon was by no means signed. Blanco, who represented the rapper within the gun case, advised the outlet {that a} White Home aide knowledgeable her a number of days later that that they had not seen an software for a pardon.
The White Home didn’t reply to The Publish’s request for remark.
A US District Decide in San Diego on Jan. 9 sentenced the rapper to a few years supervised launch and credited him for 10 days that he had served in jail. The sentence additionally included 300 hours of neighborhood service
Boosie filed a lawsuit March 25 with the American Arbitration Affiliation, requesting that Wohl and Burkman return half of the retainer payment.
The rapper, who was arrested in Could for assaulting a Houston nightclub bouncer, went after the lobbyists Monday on X.
“DONT START LYING NOW I GAVE U 3 MONTHS TO SEND MY MONEY BACK,” he wrote.
In a separate publish, the rapper claimed Burkman and Wohl talked about that that they had reached out to Home Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Sick), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and conservative activists and commentators Laura Loomer, Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobeich and Erika Kirk throughout his try to win a pardon.
Loomer and Cernovich reached out to Boosie through X to say that they have been unaware of his case and have been by no means concerned.
Mace addressed Boosie’s considerations on X, posting: “Our workplace obtained an e mail requesting a telephone name. My workers took one telephone name final October. Our workplace promised nothing, they usually by no means adopted up. To our data. Greater than keen to help.”
“EVERYONE U SAID U REACHED OUT TO FOR MY PARDON HAS SAID U R LYING,” Boosie BadAzz wrote on X. “ITS GETTING HOT SO WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?”
In an announcement to The Publish, JM Burkman & Associates stated it labored arduous to win the pardon, however famous there was by no means an settlement to refund half of the retainer.
“In 25 years, we can not consider a single shopper for whom our agency has performed extra work than Boosie,” the agency stated. “No provision to return half the payment was ever truly agreed to.”
Wohl and Burkman have been in earlier authorized hassle.
In 2022, they pleaded responsible in Ohio to telecommunications fraud for working a bootleg robocall marketing campaign reportedly focusing on black voters. Additionally they pleaded no contest in Michigan and reached an settlement with New York Legal professional Basic Leticia James to pay a $1.5 million high quality for operating comparable schemes.
