Rapper Ice Cube asserted this week that a Qatari man invested in his BIG3 basketball league as a way to target President Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon.

Ice Cube Sues Qatari Investors Who Tried To Target Steve Bannon

The 48-year-old actor and former NWA member and Jeff Kwatinetz, the co-CEO of BIG3, claim the Qatari man — reportedly named Ahmed al Rumaihi — tried to gain access to Bannon while he served as Trump’s chief strategist in 2017. The pair say the man was working with Qatar’s government.

Kwatinetz added that after Trump had fired Bannon in August 2017 and that the latter had resigned as executive chairman of far-right news website Breitbart, Qataris wanted to schedule a meeting with Bannon to offer to “underwrite all of his political efforts in return for his support.”

A $1.2 billion lawsuit filed by Ice Cube — whose real name is O’Shea Jackson — and his business partner last month against Qatari investors alleges that Al-Rumaihi bragged about bribing and striking deals with other American politicians including Michael Flynn, Trump’s first National Security Adviser who pleaded guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian collusion.

Jackson and Kwatinetz claim the Qatari reneged on promises to invest large sums of money in their basketball league. The suit says Al-Rumaihi and another Qatari investor paid only $7.5 million of the $20.5 million they had vowed to invest in the league.

Rumaihi also reportedly asked about the Trump administration’s position on a blockade of Qatar, which was instituted by other Arab nations in June 2017 following allegations that the country’s government supported terrorism.

The basketball businessmen also accuse the Qataris of spending large sums of money on gambling and other inappropriate activities, including on foreign trips for BIG3 employees as a way to assert their influence in the league.

Porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti questioned in a tweet on Sunday why Al-Rumaihi allegedly met with Flynn and Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen — who paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money — in Trump Tower in December 2016.

After what seems like a lengthy period of time, ex-FBI director Robert Mueller has finally released his report about his investigation into the NFL and Ray Rice case: he was tasked to see if the NFL, at any level, received the elevator video, in which Rice struck his now wife, prior to TMZ leaking it.

In the opening pages, the document stated they were looking to answer two questions: “whether anyone at the League had received or seen the in-elevator video prior to its public release on Sept.  8; and what other evidence was obtained by, provided to, or available to the League in the course of its investigation.”

As for the answer to the first question, he did not find any evidence that the NFL possessed a copy of the tape: “we have found no evidence that anyone at the League received or viewed the in-elevator video prior to its public release. Likewise, we have found no evidence of a woman at the League acknowledging receipt of that video in a voicemail message left on April 9, 2014.”

And with the second question, he commented that the League’s handling of the Rice matter was consistent to how they treated all pending court cases. Their process “reflects the League’s longstanding practice of deferring to law enforcement—a practice that can foster an environment in which it is less important to understand precisely what a player did than to understand how and when the criminal justice system addresses the event. In this case, that deference led to deficiencies in the League’s collection and analysis of information during its investigation. We conclude that there was substantial information about the incident that should have put the League on notice of a need to undertake a more thorough investigation to obtain available evidence of precisely what occurred inside the elevator.”

In the end, lets hope that the NFL could finally put this to rest. It is certainly a sad incident, but at least it had some positive repercussions: it helped the league redevelop their policy on domestic abuse and other violent offenses, while it also reformed their harsh policies on drug use.

If you want to see the full report, which is over 80 pages, you can check it out here.