A former collaborator of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who was involved in a strange partnership between the singer and the Trump White House has cut a deal with federal prosecutors that will keep the Grammy-winning artist off the witness stand.
Arjun Dhillon, who worked with Ye on a variety of business ventures several years ago, was charged in 2019 with using the singer’s name in an attempt to swindle a quarter of a million dollars from a rich philanthropist running an online charity campaign, according to court records.
The alleged fraud stemmed from a project Ye initiated with an unidentified senior White House adviser to form a “design studio pilot program” aimed at “innovating America’s workforce,” court records filed this week show.
