Boosie Badazz went at Jack Burkman on X Monday night after the lobbyist blamed the rapper’s own arrest for the $600,000 Trump pardon that never arrived, and the receipts Boosie is pointing to are largely holding up. Jack shut yo lying ass up, Boosie wrote, going straight at Burkman’s claim that a Houston incident wrecked the deal. His argument is a timeline argument. He says the dispute over the money predates the Houston situation entirely, that Burkman was already being sued in March while the Houston thing did not happen until the end of May, and that he gave the lobbyists three months to send his money back before any of this went public.
Here is what Jack Burkman actually said, because the pushback only makes sense once you see it. Burkman told TMZ that Boosie has no reason to be unhappy, that in thirty years of lobbying he doubts his firm has ever done more work or harder work, that the refund provision Boosie is pointing to was never agreed to at all, and that Boosie’s quest for a pardon was made much tougher by an arrest for an alleged crime of violence in Texas earlier this year. They tried very, very hard, he said.
The problem for Jack Burkman is that a lot of what Boosie is alleging lines up with the reporting.
Boosie’s second post is the one that should worry him. Everyone you said you reached out to for my pardon has said you are lying, Boosie wrote. Every name you named has denied your allegations. Everybody you named will have their time to speak. It’s getting hot. So where did the money go? I thought Trump signed the pardon? I thought you had the president on speed dial?
According to NOTUS, which broke this story Monday, Jack Burkman and his partner Jacob Wohl told Boosie’s criminal defense lawyer Meghan Blanco over the course of three months that they had secured support for the pardon from Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona, and House Speaker Mike Johnson. Those who chose to comment denied ever advocating for Boosie’s pardon. Separately, a White House official told NOTUS that the clemency team had never heard from Wohl or Burkman at all, and that having those two attached to a case would actually hurt a person’s chances of getting one.
So Jack Burkman’s defense is that he worked harder for Boosie than for any client in three decades. The White House says he never called.
Then there is the part that had Boosie the angriest. Talking about Trump signed the pardon, he wrote, got me running around the damn house jumping, saying you just talked to the president. The reporting supports that timeline too. On New Year’s Eve, Burkman texted that Trump had the pardon in hand and was ready to sign. On New Year’s Day, Blanco got a call telling her the pardon had been signed and the White House simply had not announced it yet. A federal sentencing hearing was bearing down on Boosie for possessing a firearm as a felon. Imagine what that phone call felt like. Now imagine finding out it was not real.
Boosie is now saying he is taking it to federal court and calling the operation a Ponzi scheme, referencing nine victims. That number needs to be handled carefully. The nine came from the pitch, not from any count of people who got burned. Boosie’s lawyer Meghan Blanco told NOTUS he heard about Jack Burkman’s firm through word of mouth, specifically that they had secured nine pardons for their clients. NOTUS then went and checked the federal lobbying disclosures and found that exactly one of the clients Wohl and Burkman registered to lobby for, a nursing home executive named Joseph Schwartz, has ever received a pardon, and that one did not come until last November. So Boosie is taking their own nine pardons sales pitch and throwing it back as nine victims. It is a sharp line. It is not a documented number, and anybody repeating it as fact is getting ahead of the reporting.
What is documented is ugly enough. Boosie, whose legal name is Torence Hatch, signed with JM Burkman & Associates on September 30, 2025, and paid the full $600,000 up front. Half was nonrefundable. The other $300,000 was supposed to come back if no pardon arrived by the deadline and he asked for the refund in writing. The contract is a mess, riddled with typos, including a refund deadline written as January 31, 2025, several months before anybody signed it. Both sides later acknowledged it was meant to say 2026.
Lawyers and pardon advocates who spoke to NOTUS said they had never seen a pardon contract with a refund guarantee in it at all. Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl also would not answer whether they had placed the refundable $300,000 in a trust, which those same lawyers said is the standard practice when a contract carries a refund clause. Burkman has separately told Boosie the firm cannot pay because it owes millions in fines and other debts. Their lawyer, Charles Camp, filed a motion to dismiss claiming the lobbyists never even saw the signed retainer agreement until arbitration began, which Boosie and his arbitration attorney Jill Craft dispute.
And then there is the thing that hangs over the entire arrangement. In 2022, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl were convicted in an Ohio court over a robocall scheme that pushed false information to 85,000 voters in predominantly Black neighborhoods to discourage them from voting by mail. They later paid a $1.25 million settlement over it. Those are the men a Black rapper from Baton Rouge handed six figures to in the hope of buying his freedom.
Boosie never got the pardon. In January a federal judge gave him ten days of time served and three years of supervised release, and prosecutors are now trying to revoke that supervised release over an alleged violation in May. He has a separate pardon application in with the White House and says he still has hope. Trump has issued more than 1,700 pardons since returning to office.
Jacob Wohl has not said a word about any of it. Jack Burkman is doing all the talking, and every time he opens his mouth Boosie posts another receipt.
You played with the wrong one, Boosie wrote. I’m suing y’all in federal court now.
