Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill was released from prison on April 25, 2018. Dateline was with him “as he soared to freedom on a helicopter” with his friend, 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin. Rubin tells Dateline’s Lester Holt, “It was a small victory and a gigantic fight but one that felt, you know, incredible.” Holt reports that Mills has “become the poster child for millions who are demanding criminal justice reform.” Holt also interviews politician Larry Krasner, District Attorney of Philadelphia. Krasner says, ‘We have been conducting criminal justice with a chainsaw instead of a scalpel.” Mill now suggests “Let’s retire the Free Meek Mill hashtag and make it hashtag Justice Reform.”
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Rubin is the CEO of Kynetic which owns online retail companies:
Fanatics
Rue La La
ShopRunner
Prior to that, the college dropout (Villanova) sold his e-commerce company GSI Commerce to eBay for $2.4 billion in 2011. In 2017, SoftBank invested $1 billion in Fanatics. Rubin, who is worth $3 billion according to Forbes, is also a co-owner of the New Jersey Devils hockey team. Dateline airs Sundays at 7pm on NBC.
