Pras Michel has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was convicted of international conspiracy charges.

During a federal court hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, November 20, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that Michel will spend over a decade behind bars after he was previously ordered to pay $64 million . Prosecutors originally campaigned for a "severe" sentence of more than two decades, which would match sentences of others who had been convicted of serious financial scandals. However, Michel's attorneys requested a light sentence of 36 months since higher sentences are “typically reserved for terrorists who murder innocents and the heads of the largest Mexican drug cartels.”

“Pras has spent his career breaking barriers and defying expectations," Pras' spokesp

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