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\n\tTurns out, President Trump\u2019s taste for endless pardons<\/a> has its limits. According to a report from Notus<\/a> published Monday, the rapper Boosie BadAzz paid a team of lobbyists $600,000 in hopes that they could secure a pardon from Trump for the federal charges he incurred<\/a> from illegally possessing a handgun in 2023. Boosie, born Torence Hatch, is now demanding a $300,000 refund from JM Burkman & Associates, the team of D.C. Lobbyists made up of Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who claim that they are not contractually obligated to return any payments.<\/p>\n \n\tEarlier this year, Boosie was sentenced to timed served<\/a>, along with three years of supervised release and 300 hours of community service, according to the rapper\u2019s lawyer, though he violated those conditions in May when he was accused of striking a security guard over the head with a hookah base. Facing more court charges this fall, Boosie, who claimed the 2023 incident where he brought a loaded handgun to a video shoot was \u201cnonviolent and isolated,\u201d sought the help of Wohl and Burkman in obtaining a presidential pardon. And, to be fair, Trump\u2019s generous taste for pardons has found him issuing them at eight times the rate of former President Biden, even including letting the January 6 Capitol rioters off the hook after he took office.<\/p>\n \n\tBut can you actually buy a pardon?<\/p>\n \n\tNo: that would constitute bribery, though language pertaining to how that would actually implicate the president himself is more murky. Various bills, such as 2020\u2019s No President Is Above the Law Act, have been introduced to clarify this language, though they have made no progress. Trump\u2019s thirst for pardons, however, has blossomed an entire economy<\/a> built around lobbyists who claim they can cash in on their ties to the president for clemency \u2014 all for a fee.<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to Notus, Boosie claimed he was led to believe that Wohl and Burkman, who \u201cwere talking like they had Trump on speed dial,\u201d could persuade Trump after Boosie failed to sway him during Black History Month for a pardon. They reportedly dropped names like Laura Loomer, Jack Posobiec, Mike Cernovich, and Erika Kirk, claiming they could help in the process (a representative for Kirk denied to Notus that she even knows who Boosie is) and at one point claimed that Trump had already signed the pardon.<\/p>\n