That's What Friends in High Places Are For - New York Times

Wait a minute!

The guy was in for Cocaine?

Damn, this is odd.

That's What Friends in High Places Are For - New York Times:

"LOS ANGELES, July 7 : Although collaborations happen all the time in pop music, they do not generally involve R & B hitmakers and Senator Orrin G. Hatch.

But the release of a music producer from a Dubai jail this week, quick on the heels of his conviction for drug possession, turns out to be a story of high-level string-pulling on the part of Mr. Hatch, the conservative Utah Republican and songwriter, along with Lionel Richie, the singer; Quincy Jones, the music entrepreneur; and an array of well-connected lawyers, businessmen and others, spanning cities and continents"