I reached out to a White House official on boosie filing a lawsuit for $600k claiming that he’d been scammed after paying for a pardon from Donald Trump
— A White House official ..made it clear in a statement to me that they DO NOT support the work of Wohl or Burkman (the men… pic.twitter.com/cUx1xALK8j
— BROWN GIRL GRINDING⭐️ (@LorenLorosa) July 14, 2026
Rapper Boosie Badazz is taking legal action against political operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman after allegedly shelling out $600,000 to help secure a pardon from President Trump — one Boosie says never came. This week, it all came crashing down: Boosie is now trying to recover $300,000 under a clause in the contract requiring half the fee be refunded if no pardon was delivered.
Let’s set the scene. Boosie struck a deal with the pair in late fall 2025 after they pitched themselves as having major pull inside Trump’s orbit. Boosie claims they were so confident, they acted like they had POTUS “on speed dial.” The contract was signed on Sept. 30, 2025 — and it’s a disaster. The contract is riddled with typos and errors, including a provision that would allow Boosie to request a partial refund of the $600,000 fee if the lobbyists had not secured a presidential pardon by “close of business” on Jan. 31, 2025 — several months before the agreement was signed. Even the deadline was in the past. Classic.
Then came the lies. Things allegedly escalated on New Year’s Day when Boosie’s lawyer got a call claiming Trump had already signed the pardon and the White House just hadn’t announced it yet. Burkman texted that it was “in hand and is ready to sign.” But reality hit different: The pardon never surfaced. A White House official flatly denied the duo had any role in the pardon process, saying the clemency team had “never heard from” Wohl or Burkman and warning their involvement would actually hurt someone’s chances of getting a pardon.
Here’s the kicker: These guys have a history. Wohl and Burkman are convicted felons who paid $1.25 million over a robocall scheme aimed at Black voters. Boosie — a Louisiana legend, one of the biggest names in the culture — paid $600K to the exact types of operatives who got caught running suppression campaigns against Black voters. The irony is nuclear.
Burkman and Wohl allegedly refused to pay, arguing no refund agreement existed and later claiming their firm was effectively broke after millions in fines tied to past legal troubles. When pressed, 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. We tried very, very hard.” Translation: “We did nothing and have no money anyway.”
What’s really wild is the bigger picture. This is the first known arbitration taken against a pardon lobbyist during Trump’s second term. Boosie’s legal actions underscore the high-stakes pardon economy that’s taken shape as Trump returned to the White House and fundamentally changed how pardons are decided. The changes have fostered a growing clemency economy outside the White House where people with ties to Trump or his aides sell their influence to those looking for a pardon. Millions of dollars have been paid to lobbyists, lawyers and pardon advocates to petition the White House for their clients’ clemency — with no real oversight over who outside of the White House is profiting and whether they can deliver on their promises.
Boosie did beat the gun charge in another way — at sentencing in January, a federal judge exercised leniency and ordered him to serve only three years of supervised release instead. So he’s not in the cage. But that $600K? Gone. And now he’s fighting for half of it back in arbitration.
The 16BARS take: Boosie got fed a line by grifters who make a living selling fake access to the president, and the White House just sat there. This whole pardon-for-sale economy is exposing the system as pure hustle — and brothers from the culture are the ones getting caught slipping.
