Rapper Boosie Badazz demands refund from lobbyists who failed to win him Trump pardon
Rapper Boosie BadAzz is demanding a refund from a lobbying firm that failed to deliver 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 secure a pardon from President Trump for federal gun charges from 2023, according to the sign agreement that as reviewed by The Post.Boosie’s 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.“This contract was prepared by and signed by Burkman & Associates, including the return of funds provision,” Boosie’s Baton Rogue-based lawyer, Jill Craft, told The Post.“We expect them to live up to their end of the signed contract.”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 New Year’s Eve text message from Burkman, who wrote that Trump had the pardon “in hand and is ready to sign,” according to online news outlet News of the United States.The rapper received a call from his San Diego-based attorney on Jan.
1, Meghan Blanco, who told him that Burkman had informed her that the president had granted him legal forgiveness for possessing a firearm as a felon and that White House was going to make an announcement.However, the presidential pardon was never signed. Blanco, 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.The White House did not reply to The Post’s request for comment.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 serviceBoosie filed a lawsuit March 25 with the American Arbitration Association, requesting that Wohl and Burkman return half of the retainer fee.The ...