Kodak Black and Donald Trump share an attorney. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP and Alex Brandon/AP Rapper Kodak Black is being represented on new charges by longtime Trump supporter Bradford Cohen. Black received a pardon from Trump in January 2021 and was arrested again Friday.
Cohen was on “The Apprentice” in 2004 and has remained a supporter of the former president. Kodak Black, a rapper pardoned by President Donald Trump in January 2021, is being represented by the former president’s longtime supporter, Attorney Bradford Cohen, on new drug charges. Black was arrested on drug trafficking and possession charges Friday afternoon after Florida Highway Patrol officers pulled him over in Fort Lauderdale for a window tint they said was darker than legally allowed, according to records Lt.
Alex Camacho provided to local outlets, including the Miami Herald. When the officers smelled marijuana, they searched the car and found 31 oxicodone pills and almost $75,000 in cash, officials said. His license was also expired, according to local reporting.
The 25-year-old rapper, who’s real name is Bill Kapri, pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of trafficking oxycodone of less than 25 grams and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, according to court records. —Bradford Cohen (@bradfordcohen) July 16, 2022Cohen, who was on the second season of “The Apprentice” in 2004 and has reportedly been a longtime Trump supporter, tweeted on Saturday about Black’s arrest, the same day bond was set at $75,000 on the trafficking charge. When reached by email, Cohen didn’t comment further on the case or his relationship with Trump, other than to tell Insider: “This is old news.
” Emails and a call placed to the Florida Highway Patrol spokesperson in the Miami district were not immediately returned. Kodak Black performing at Rolling Loud New York 2021. Astrida Valigorsky/Getty ImagesPardoned by TrumpBlack has been in and out of jail over the years, including on charges that he sexually abused a teenager in 2016.
Black received a 10-year suspended sentence in the case in April 2021 after pleading guilty to assault. He was told he wouldn’t have to serve time if he completed 18 months of probation, the Associated Press reported. Black was also convicted in 2019 for lying on documents in order to purchase guns on at least two occasions.
On his firearm applications, he did not indicate he had been indicted for the 2016 assault, prosecutors said. The rapper was serving a 46-month sentence for the guns when Trump pardoned him. Black’s was among 73 pardons and 70 commutations of sentences Trump issued in his final days in office.
In the statement announcing Black’s commutation, the White House mentioned donations the rapper had made to several causes, like providing “educational resources” to students and families of fallen police officers, paying for notebooks for students, and providing funding and supplies to daycare centers. “Most recently while still incarcerated, Kodak Black donated $50,000 to David Portnoy’s Barstool Fund, which provides funds to small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,” the statement said. “Kodak Black’s only request was that his donation go toward restaurants in his hometown.
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