Pardons and Commutations

This is a very long list of people granted pardons or commutations by Trump. It doesn't even include everyone.
But it might give you a sense of Trump's idea of "law and order."

Date	Name	Offense	Original Sentence/ Penalty	Connection
2017-2021	~140 individuals	First Term Pardons and Commutations	(see details for some individuals below)
Jan 20, 2025	~1,500 individuals	Offenses related to events at/near the U.S. Capitol (Jan. 6, 2021)	(see details for some individuals below)
Jan 21, 2025	Ross William Ulbricht	Drug distribution, continuing criminal enterprise, fraud, money laundering, hacking	Life imprisonment (commuted/pardoned); relieved of forfeiture and fines he was ordered to pay, totaling $184 million.	Founder of Silk Road darknet marketplace
Jan 22, 2025	Terence Dale Sutton Jr.	Murder in second degree, conspiracy, obstruction of justice; deadly chase of a helmet-less man on a moped and subsequent cover-up.	66 months + supervised release
Jan 22, 2025	Andrew Zabavsky	Conspiracy, obstruction of justice; deadly chase of a helmet-less man on a moped and subsequent cover-up.	48 months + supervised release
Jan 23, 2025	Joan Bell	Conspiracy against rights; blockade of an abortion clinic.	27 months + supervised release
Jan 23, 2025	Coleman Boyd	Conspiracy to obstruct clinic access; blockade of an abortion clinic.	Probation + home detention + fine
Jan 23, 2025	Joel Curry	Conspiracy against rights; clinic access obstruction.	N/A listed
Jan 23, 2025	Jonathan Darnel	Conspiracy against rights; clinic obstruction	4 months + supervised release
Feb 10, 2025	Rod R. Blagojevich	Bribery, wire fraud, extortion, conspiracy	168 months + supervised release + fine	A former Democratic governor who publicly supported Trump’s campaigns and appeared on Trump’s TV show earlier.
Mar 11, 2025	Brian Kelsey	Conspiracy to defraud U.S. excessive contributions	21 months + supervised release	Donated approximately $15,000 to the Trump 47 Committee in 2024.
Mar 20, 2025	Thomas Edward Caldwell	Tampering with documents/proceedings	Time served
Mar 25, 2025	Devon Archer	Securities fraud; conspiracy	1 yr + supervised release + $43 million restitution (waived by pardon).	Long-time business partner of Hunter Biden; gave testimony to DOJ.
Mar 27, 2025	Benjamin Delo	Bank Secrecy Act violation; pled guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations related to crypto exchange compliance.	Probation and $10 million fine (waived by pardon).	BitMEX co-founder;
Mar 27, 2025	Gregory Dwyer	Bank Secrecy Act violation	Probation + fine	Co-founder/executive of BitMEX.
Mar 27, 2025	Arthur Hayes	Bank Secrecy Act violation	Probation + home confinement; $10 million fine (waived by pardon).	Former CEO of BitMEX (crypto derivatives exchange).
Mar 27, 2025	HDR Global Trading Ltd.	Bank Secrecy Act violation	Probation + $100 million fine (waived by pardon)	Corporate entity behind BitMEX (pardon covered the company as well).
Mar 27, 2025	Trevor Milton	Securities & wire fraud	48 months + supervised release; pardon waived paying the $676 million he defrauded from Nikola shareholders.	Donated more than $1.8 million to Trump-aligned political efforts prior to pardon, including ~$920,000 to the Trump 47 Committee and large donations to Republican committees.
Mar 27, 2025	Samuel Reed	Bank Secrecy Act violation	Probation + $10 million fine (waived by pardon).	Co-founder/executive of BitMEX.
Mar 28, 2025	Jason Galanis	Fraud scheme against union pension funds and a Native American tribe.	15 years in prison; pardon waived the $84.8 million restitution of victims.
Mar 28, 2025	Carlos Roy Watson	Founder of Ozy Media; conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft.	116 months in prison (commuted); $96 million in fines and restitution (waived by pardon).
Apr 23, 2025	Michele Fiore	Former Republican Las Vegas City Council Member and gubernatorial candidate who fraudulently solicited donations to build memorials for fallen police officers.	Pardon excused restitution.	Longtime Republican and Trump supporter; campaigned for Trump and endorsed him publicly.
Apr 23, 2025	Paul Walczak	Former nursing home executive who withheld more than $10 million from the paychecks of the nurses, doctors and others.	18 mo + supervised release + restitution; pardon waived restitution.	His mother, Elizabeth Fago, reportedly donated millions to Trump’s presidential campaigns and attended a high-dollar MAGA fundraiser. >
May 27, 2025	Scott Howard Jenkins	Bribery, honest services fraud; accepting more than $75,000 in exchange for making several businessmen into law enforcement officers without training.	120 months + supervised release	Long-time Trump supporter.
May 27, 2025	James Callahan	Filing false labor union reports; kickbacks of approximately $315,000 from an firm compensated by the union.[	N/A listed
May 28, 2025	Kevin Eric Baisden	Multiple low-level theft/shoplifting offenses	Various minor terms
May 28, 2025	Jeremy Hutchinson	Arkansas state senator; Accepting multiple bribes, tax fraud, and conspiracy.	46 months in prison	Member of powerful Hutchinson family in Arkansas.
May 28, 2025	Mark Bashaw	Military violation of lawful orders to telework, submit a negative COVID-19 test and wear a mask indoors.	N/A listed
May 28, 2025	Julie Chrisley	Conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud (five counts); wire fraud; tax evasion; obstruction of justice.	7 years + supervised release + $4.7 million restitution (waived by pardon).
May 28, 2025	Todd Chrisley	Conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud (five counts); wire fraud; tax evasion; obstruction of justice.	12 years + supervised release + $17 million restitution (waived by pardon).
May 28, 2025	Charles Overton Scott	Securities fraud conspiracy; penny stock company.	42 months + supervised release + restitution
May 28, 2025	Lawrence Duran	Conspiracy to commit health care fraud; conspiracy to defraud Medicare; conspiracy to commit money laundering; etc.	42 months + supervised release + $87.5 million restitution (waived by pardon).
May 28, 2025	Alexander Sittenfeld	Democratic Cincinnati city council member solicited or accepted campaign donations in exchange for his promise to support a property development project.	16 months + supervised release + fine
May 28, 2025	Earl Lamont Smith	Government property theft; stealing thousands of government computers, and selling them for profit.	18 months + supervised release + restitution
May 28, 2025	Garnett Gilbert Smith	Cocaine distribution conspiracy	300 months + supervised release
May 28, 2025	Charles Lavar Tanner	Cocaine distribution conspiracy	360 months (commuted earlier)
May 28, 2025	Anabel Valenzuela	Shipped thousands of pounds of methamphetamine from Las Vegas to Hawaii; money laundering conspiracy	384 months + supervised release
May 28, 2025	Imaad Shah Zuberi	FARA, tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions	144 months + supervised release + fines/restitution	A major political donor, contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to both Trump and Republican committees after 2016.
Oct 21, 2025	Changpeng Zhao	Money laundering compliance failure	4 months + $50M fine	Co-founder and long-time CEO of Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
Nov 7, 2025	Glen Casada	Fraud, money laundering conspiracy; scheme to receive over $50,000 in taxpayer money from a mailer program for lawmakers.	36 months + supervised release
Nov 7, 2025	Cade Cothren	Fraud, money laundering conspiracy; scheme to receive over $50,000 in taxpayer money from a mailer program for lawmakers.	30 months + fine
Nov 9, 2025	Rudy Giuliani; Sidney Powell; Kenneth Chesebro; Mark Meadows; John Eastman; Christina Bobb; Boris Epshteyn; and 70 others	The “fake electors” scheme — individuals involved in submitting alternate Electoral College slates.	Largely symbolic as none face federal charges; Trump’s pardons do not apply to state or local charges.	Scheme to undo Biden’s victory in 2020
Nov 12, 2025	Joseph Lewis	Securities fraud conspiracy; insider trading.	Probation + fines + $5 million restitution; (waived by pardon).
Nov 14, 2025	Suzanne Kaye	Interstate communications threatening; on-line threats against FBI agents.	18 months + supervised release
Nov 14, 2025	Joseph Schwartz	Failure to pay employment taxes; involving nursing homes he owned	36 months + supervised release + $38 million fines/restitution (waived by pardon).
Nov 14, 2025	Daniel Edwin Wilson	Firearm possession by prohibited person	60 months + supervised release
Dec 1, 2025	Juan Orlando Hernández	Conspiracy to import 40 tons of cocaine to US; gun offenses.	540 months + supervised release + fine	former president of Honduras
Dec 2, 2025	Enrique Roberto Cuellar & Imelda Rios Cuellar	Bribery, money laundering, and foreign agent charges for taking bribes from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank to influence U.S. policy.	N/A listed	Texas Democratic Congressman
Dec 2, 2025	Timothy Joseph Leiweke	Conspiracy to restrain trade and rig the bidding process for an arena in Austin, Texas	N/A listed
Dec 5, 2025	Tina Peters	Peters was convicted in August 2024 on seven of ten charges of engaging in a security breach to advance a false conspiracy theory of election fraud. Four of the convictions were for felonies. A former clerk in Mesa County, she ordered the surveillance cameras monitoring the county's voting machines to be turned off while she allowed a QAnon conspiracist access to copy sensitive information from those machines. Another conspiracist publicly released those files. The all-Republican Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to replace 41 pieces of election equipment that were compromised with new equipment also from Dominion Voting Systems.	Peters is serving a nine-year sentence in state prison.	The president vowed to punish Colorado as long as Peters remains in prison. In December 2025, he denied disaster funding to help northwestern Colorado recover from wildfires and southwestern Colorado recover from flooding. In January 2026, Trump vetoed a bill that would have provided funding to complete a pipeline to carry clean water to communities in southeastern Colorado.
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Pardon of January 6, 2021 Capital Hill Rioters

On the first day of his second term, Trump granted blanket clemency to all people, nearly 1,600, convicted of or awaiting trial or sentencing for offenses related to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Most of them received full pardons, while the sentences of 14 members of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys were commuted. More than 600 rioters had been convicted of or pleaded guilty to assault of or obstructing law enforcement officers and 170 of using a deadly weapon

A Sampling of Rioters Granted Pardons or Clemency

Name	Description (Status Before Pardon)
Enrique Tarrio	Former leader of the Proud Boys who had been serving a 22-year sentence for charges including seditious conspiracy.
Alan Hostetter	Retired police chief, sentenced in December 2023 to 11 years in prison for conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. He drove to Washington with hatchets, knives, stun batons, pepper spray, and other gear for himself and others and used a bullhorn to encourage rioters to break the police line.
David Nicholas Dempsey	Sentenced in August 2024 to 20 years in prison for stomping on police officers' heads, using flagpoles and other objects to attack officers, and spraying bear spray into the gas mask of an officer. His prior criminal record included burglary, theft, and assault.
Peter Schwartz	Sentenced in May 2023 to 14 years to assaulting police officers with a chair and pepper spray. He boasted in a text message that he had "thrown the first chair at cops" and "started a riot". He also had a record of prior violent offenses.
Daniel Joseph "DJ" Rodriguez	Sentenced in 2023 to 12.5 years in prison for conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of justice, and assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Rodriguez had shot Officer Michael Fanone, who had been dragged into the mob by another assailant and was lying face-down on the ground, twice with a stun gun held to his neck. Fanone had a heart attack and received other injuries during the attack. Video footage also showed Rodriguez deploying a fire extinguisher and attacking other officers with a wooden pole.
Christopher Joseph Quaglin	Member of the Proud Boys, sentenced in May 2024 by a Trump-appointed judge to 12 years in prison for choking and tackling officer Michael Fanone to the ground, attacking other officers with metal bike racks, stolen police shields, and pepper spray.
Thomas Webster	Retired police officer, sentenced in 2022 to 10 years in prison for attacking an officer with a flagpole and tackling him.
Christopher J. Worrell	Proud Boy member, sentenced in 2024 to 10 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray.
Thomas Harlen Smith	Sentenced in October 2023 to 9 years in prison for, among other violent actions, kicking an officer in the back and knocking him to the ground and hitting two officers in the head with the metal pole he threw at them.
Albaquerque Cosper Head	Sentenced in October 2022 to seven years for dragging officer Fanone face-down down the West Terrace steps and attacking police in the entrance to the Lower West Terrace tunnel.
Kyle J. Young	Pleaded guilty to a single charge and was sentenced in September 2022 to seven years for handing the stun gun to Rodriguez and grabbing Fanone's hand when he tried to protect himself.
Patrick McCaughey III	Sentenced in April 2023 to 7.5 years for using a stolen police riot shield to crush officer Daniel Hodges in a doorframe at the entrance to the Lower West Terrace tunnel.
Steven Cappuccio	Sentenced in November 2023 to seven years for ripping off officer Hodges's gas mask and striking him across the face with his own baton.
Andrew Taake	Sentenced in June 2024 to 6.5 years for attacking officers with bear spray and a metal whip. At the time of the Capitol attack, he was out on bond for soliciting a minor in 2016. The bond was revoked in September 2021. Taake ultimately pled guilty to online solicitation of a minor. He is subject to registration as a sex offender in Texas for the next ten years.
Shane Jenkins	Sentenced in October 2023 to 84 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and payment of $5,165 in restitution. He broke a window with a tomahawk and threw a wooden desk drawer, a flagpole, a metal walking stick, and other objects at officers defending the West Tunnel entrance to the Capitol.
Edward J. Kelley	Convicted on November 8, 2024, in federal court of tackling a law enforcement officer from behind and throwing him to the ground and various acts of property damage inside the Capitol. While awaiting trial, Kelley developed a “kill list” of FBI agents. He planned to use car bombs and incendiary devices to attack the FBI Field Office. Kelley was convicted of assaulting police at the U.S. Capitol, among other charges, and later convicted of conspiring to murder FBI employees.
Daniel Ball	Had been awaiting trial when he was pardoned. He was accused of throwing a device that "flashed and exploded", a wooden leg of a chair or table, and other objects at officers in the Lower West Terrace tunnel, and for damaging a shutter. Investigators searching his Florida residence as part of the case had found a firearm and ammunition, items he was not allowed to possess because of two prior felony convictions.
Edward Jacob "Jake" Lang	Was in prison for four years on an 11-count indictment, including assault charges for attacking officers with a baseball bat.
Andrew Kyle Grigsby	Was in custody awaiting trial on five felony charges, including attacking officers with bear spray. In July 2020, Mr. Grigsby was charged with 12 counts of possessing child sexual abuse materials and pornography at his home. In 2024, Grigsby pled guilty to possession of child sex abuse material and was sentenced to three years in prison.
David Paul Daniel	Had pleaded guilty for assaulting police officers and was in custody awaiting trial. After he was charged in November 2023, FBI and N.C., police officers discovered images of Daniel sexually abusing two children under 12 during a search of his home. He is in custody in North Carolina on charges of production and possession of child pornography.
Theodore Middendorf	Was awaiting trial for striking a window with a flagpole. In May 2024, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison in Illinois for committing "an act of sexual penetration" of a 7-year-old child.
David Medina	Charged with a felony for obstructing an official proceeding, and charged with several misdemeanors. After breaking into the Capitol, he vandalized the nameplate over Nancy Pelosi’s office.
Matthew Huttle	Was sentenced in November 2023 to six months in prison and a year of supervised release for entering the Capitol and multiple offices. Huttle had a prior criminal record which included a sentence of 2.5 years in prison for beating and injuring his 3-year-old son. On January 26, 2025, Huttle was shot and killed while in possession of a firearm and resisting arrest during a traffic stop.
Emily Hernandez	Pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in federal prison in 2022. She was seen holding Nancy Pelosi's broken nameplate during the riot. Nine days after the pardon, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a woman and injuring her husband in a car crash on January 5, 2022. Hernandez, who was intoxicated, drove the wrong way on Interstate 44 and crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle.
John Daniel Andries	Mr. Andries breached the Capitol Building through a broken window. Once inside, he pushed past Capitol Police officers and forced his way deeper into the building. He recorded himself threatening the police and urging the mob forward. He shoved police officers trying to disperse the crowd. He then sat on a ledge and refused to move. He pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding. In addition to a 1 year prison term, he was ordered to pay $2,000 restitution and three years of supervised release. After an incident in March 2022, Andries was charged with disorderly conduct, assault second degree on a law enforcement officer, and resisting arrest. After another incident in May 2025, Andries was found guilty of two counts of violating a peace order stemming from repeated confrontations with the mother of his child.
Joshua Lee Atwood	Atwood joined the mob gathered at the tunnel entrance to the Capitol. Mr. Atwood threw several objects at the police defending the entrance — including a metal pole and a plastic bottle. He used a wooden pole to beat back riot shields before striking an officer’s helmet and throwing the pole at the police line. He unloaded a full canister of pepper spray on the police. He threw a baseball bat at the police line. He grabbed a riot shield and beat police with it. He picked up a piece of metal scaffolding and threw it at the police. The metal bounced off a riot shield and struck an officer in the head and neck. He picked up a loudspeaker and threw it towards the police. Atwood pleaded guilty to armed assault of a law enforcement officer on January 6th. He was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release. While awaiting trial, MAtwood went on another rampage at a restaurant, arguing with the owner, stole money from the cash register, and stabbed the owner. He hid from the police for several weeks before he was arrested.
Brent John Holdridge	Arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility. He faces charges of burglary, grand theft, and possession of stolen property involving industrial copper wire valued at tens of thousands of dollars.
Bryan Betancur	Mr. Betancur was already on probation for a 2019 burglary conviction and was wearing a court-ordered GPS monitor when he arrived at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. There, Betancur climbed the scaffolding outside the Capitol, entered the building, and helped to remove furniture from a conference room—furniture that was later smashed into pieces and used as weapons and projectiles to attack the police. Betancur was sentenced to four months in prison and one year of supervised release for storming the Capitol. Prosecutors told the court that Betancur “voiced homicidal ideations, made comments about conducting a school shooting, and has researched mass shootings.” He had voiced support for the man convicted of hitting and killing Heather Heyer with his car during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. In September 2024, Betancur was ordered back to jail for repeatedly violating a protective order and stalking an activist in Washington, DC.
Kyle Travis Colton	Colton grabbed a flagpole that a rioter had been using to attack a police officer—pulling the pole out of the hands of the officer and handing it back to the assailant. Colton pled guilty to the charges related to the breach of the Capitol. Separately, in February 2024, Colton was indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving pornographic “child sex abuse material.”
Timothy Desjardins	Desjardins repeatedly struck police officers with a broken table leg in a tunnel into the Capitol Building. His backpack was later found to carry several hatchets. In September 2021, Desjardins shot and wounded a man in Rhode Island. In November 2021, police spotted him walking through a residential neighborhood with a gun. Desjardins barricaded himself inside a barbershop and initiated an armed standoff with the police. In April 2023, Desjardins pleaded guilty to multiple firearms charges and was sentenced to 18 years in Rhode Island state prison.
Joshua Dillon Haynes	Haynes smashed an air conditioning unit and broke several pieces of equipment that belonged to media outlets. Later, he texted a friend: “We attacked the CNN reporters and the fake news and destroyed tens of thousands of dollars of their video and television equipment.” After his arrest, Haynes was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation and to remain in his house except for court appearances and other court-approved appointments. That same month, Haynes strangled a family member. He was charged with several counts related to domestic violence and his bail was revoked.
Colby Dillion Herrington	Harrington threw a large piece of lumber and water bottles at the police line. He picked up a metal barricade, approached the Capitol Police, then threw the barricade down. As police cleared the building, officers noticed a knife blade in Herrington’s back pocket. When he was arrested, officers found a large military-style knife and a stun gun in his pockets. Herrington pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers and was sentenced to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In December 2024, Harrington was indicted for raping a woman “who was incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless or mentally incapacitated.” Herrington reportedly broke the victim’s glasses and bruised her body. A witness said they thought the victim was dead during the alleged violent rape. The court denied his bond
Daryl Eugene Johnson	Johnson pleaded guilty to multiple offenses related to entering the Capitol, and was sentenced to one month in jail. In January 2023, Johnson was arrested for secretly video-recording a woman who was changing clothes at a tanning salon. A search of his phone uncovered evidence that Johnson had spied on naked females multiple times. He pleaded guilty to four counts of invasion of privacy and was sentenced to 180 days in jail, and ordered to register with the Iowa Sex Offender Registry for ten years.
Martin Joseph Pastucci	Pastucci was sentenced to 26 months in prison for multiple felonies, including assaulting a police officer, stemming from his entering the Capitol. In 2023, he was charged with rape, aggravated assault, sexual assault, stalking, and false imprisonment of his girlfriend.
Hatchet Speed	A Navy reservist, Speed was found guilty of one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanor counts. Speed was also sentenced in a separate case where a jury convicted him in January of illegally possessing unregistered firearms disguised to look like cleaning supplies. A search of Mr. Speed’s residence had found 13 firearms and seven silencers.
Taylor Taranto	Taranto used a “weaponized cane” to batter several police officers. In one video, he appears to shield another rioter as he wrestles a police baton out of the hands of Officer Jeffrey Smith, a Metropolitan Police Department officer who later took his own life. Officer Smith’s widow would later name Taranto in a civil suit seeking accountability for her husband’s death. Taranto broadcast a video of himself stating that he had been “working on a detonator” and that he would drive a car bomb into a building housing a “neutron reactor” located on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He was convicted of multiple felonies related to his bomb threats and unlawful possession of firearms. Two federal prosecutors filed a sentencing memorandum that included a description of Taranto’s involvement with the January 6 riot. Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, responded by putting both prosecutors on leave, then filed an amended memorandum scrubbed of any mention of January 6th.
Zachary Alam	Alam was convicted of eight felonies, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon, and sentenced to eight years in prison. He smashed the door in the Speaker’s Lobby, damaged property in other parts of the Capitol, and threw dangerous projectiles from the third-floor balcony at police. A few months after his pardon, he was arrested and charged with burglary, vandalism, and theft.
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Trump's First Term (Jan 2017 to Jan 2021) Pardons and Commutations

During his first term, Trump granted over 144 pardons (with 74 in January 2021) and 94 grants of clemency (with 70 in January 2021). Some of the more significant ones are listed below. Although Trump did pardon a number of people for lower level drug offenses, most pardons or commutations went to white collar criminals, and many of those involved fraud against the government.

Date of Action	Name	Sentence	Offense	Notes
08/25/17	Joseph M. Arpaio	N/A – Arpaio's pardon was issued after his conviction, but prior to his being sentenced.	Criminal contempt of court	Former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona and anti-illegal immigration hardliner, Arpaio was convicted of contempt of court after Arpaio's office violated a racial profiling injunction by continuing to detain "persons for further investigation without reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or is being committed," and was awaiting sentencing. Arpaio was pardoned for the one contempt offense and for any not-yet-charged offenses.
12/20/17	Sholom Rubashkin	324 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $26,852,152.51 restitution	Bank fraud (14 counts); false statements and reports to a bank (24 counts); wire fraud (14 counts); mail fraud (nine counts); money laundering and aiding and abetting (10 counts); willful violation of order of Secretary of Agriculture and aiding and abetting (15 counts)	Rubashkin was the chief executive of Agriprocessors, a large meatpacking corporation. The company's plant in Postville, Iowa, once the U.S.'s largest kosher meatpacking operation, was the raided by immigration agents in 2008, and almost 400 undocumented workers, including several children, were detained. Rubashkin was convicted of bank fraud and related offenses for fabricating collateral for loans; prosecutors said that as a result of Rubashkin's conduct, banks lost more than $26 million. After his fraud conviction, the immigration-related charges against Rubashkin were dropped; some of the plant's managers and supervisors were convicted of harboring illegal immigrants (a felony) and approximately 300 employees at the plant (mostly Guatemalans) were convicted of identity theft. The commutation released Rubashkin from prison 19 years earlier than planned, but supervised release and a substantial restitution obligation remained.
03/09/18	Kristian Mark Saucier	One year in prison, three years of supervised release, and 100 hours of community service	Unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information	Saucier was given an other-than-honorable discharge from the Navy for taking photos of classified areas, instruments and equipment, including the nuclear propulsion system, in a military submarine.
04/13/18	I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby	30 months of prison, two years of probation, and a $250,000 fine	Perjury (two counts), obstruction of justice and false statements	Previously an aide to former vice president Dick Cheney. Perjury and obstruction concerning the investigation of the leak of the covert identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. (Sentence commuted by George Bush, pardoned by Trump).
05/31/18	Dinesh D'Souza	Five years of probation, eight months of supervision in a halfway house, and a $30,000 fine	Campaign finance violations	Afterward, in 2014, conservative commentator D'Souza pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions to the 2012 Senate campaign of his Republican friend, Wendy Long.
07/10/18	Dwight Lincoln Hammond Jr.; Steven Dwight Hammond	Father: 3 months' imprisonment; Son: 1 year imprisonment ,both amended to 5 years' imprisonment in October 2015.	Use of fire to damage and destroy property of the United States (one count for Dwight, two counts for Steven); Arson on federal land	Full pardon and commuted the prison sentences to time served.
05/06/19	Michael Chase Behenna	Forfeiture of all pay and allowances; confinement for 20 years (amended from 25 years on July 2, 2009); dismissal from service	Assault and unpremeditated murder	Behenna, a U.S. Army first lieutenant, was convicted by a court-martial of the murder of an Iraqi man. He was released on parole in 2014.
05/15/19	Conrad Moffat Black	42 months in prison, two years of supervised release, and $125,000 fine	Mail fraud and attempted obstruction of justice	Former media mogul, current friend, supporter and biographer of President Trump. Conviction reviewed by the Supreme Court in Black v. United States; convictions later upheld. Released from prison in 2014 and deported to Canada where he was born.
05/15/19	Patrick James Nolan	33 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and $10,000 fine	Conducting the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering	Former Republican lawmaker who pled guilty to soliciting for illegal campaign donations after being caught by the Shrimpscam sting operation by the FBI. Ultimately served 26 months; released in 1996 and became an activist for criminal-justice reform.
07/29/19	Ronen Nahmani	240 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release	Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and controlled substance analogues	Nahmani, an Israel-born Florida resident, was convicted in 2015 of conspiracy to distribute synthetic drugs acquired from China, and was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. Hakeem Jeffries, Mark Meadows, and Alan Dershowitz supported Nahmani's clemency request. In commuting Nahmani, the Trump White House cited his lack of a previous criminal history, his five young children, and the terminal illness of his wife.
07/29/19	Theodore E. (Ted) Suhl	84 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $200,000 fine	Aiding and abetting honest services wire fraud (two counts); aiding and abetting bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds; aiding and abetting Travel Act	Suhl formerly operated faith-based behavioral healthcare treatment centers for juveniles in Arkansas, including a residential center called Lord's Ranch (later renamed Trinity Behavioral Health) and several outpatient centers. He was convicted in 2016 on four counts of bribery in connection with a scheme from 2007 to 2011 to increase Medicaid payments to his company through payments made a state Arkansas Department of Human Services official (an ex-state legislator) via an intermediary. Both the official and the intermediary were also prosecuted and sentenced to federal prison.
11/15/19	Clint Lorance	Nineteen years in prison, forfeiture of pay, and dismissal from the Army	Murder (two counts), attempted murder, communicating a threat (two counts), reckless endangerment, witness tampering, obstruction of justice	As a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Lorance was convicted of murdering two Afghans; he ordered his troops to shoot unarmed villagers, then made false reports as part of a cover-up attempt. Lorance was turned in by his own men and convicted at court-martial. His cause was later championed by conservative members of Congress and Fox News personalities.
11/15/19	Mathew L. Golsteyn	N/A (not tried or convicted)	Premeditated murder	On December 13, 2018, Golsteyn, then serving as a major in the United States Army, was charged with the murder of a suspected bomb-maker in Afghanistan in 2010, following an interview in which he admitted to killing the man. At the time of the pardon, Golsteyn's case had not yet gone to trial.
02/18/20	Bernard Kerik	48 months' imprisonment; 3 years' supervised release; $187,931 restitution	Obstructing the administration of the Internal Revenue Laws; aiding in the preparation of a false income tax return; making false statements on a loan application; making false statements (five counts)	Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, has been a contributor to Fox News. His pardon had been urged by Rudy Giuliani.
02/18/20	David Hossein Safavian	72 months' imprisonment; two years' supervised release	Obstruction of justice and perjury (three counts)	Safavian is a Republican former lawyer and long-time associate of lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Through much of his career, he alternated between government roles and Washington lobbyist roles, in what is known as the "revolving door". He was serving as Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget, when he was arrested in connection with the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal.
02/18/20	Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.	$250,000 fine, two years of probation, payment of $350,000 restitution	Misprision of felony	DeBartolo, the former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, pleaded guilty in 1998 to concealing an extortion attempt; in 1997, he met former governor of Louisiana, Edwin Edwards, and gave him $400,000 in exchange for Edwards' help obtaining a license from the gaming board to allow Hollywood Casino Corp. (in which DeBartolo was an investor) to operate a riverboat casino.
02/18/20	Michael Milken	$200 million fine; two years of prison; three years' supervised release; 5,400 hours of community service	Conspiracy; securities fraud; mail fraud; tax fraud; filing false reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); assisting a brokerage firm in violating its net capital requirements	In pardoning financier Milken, Trump cited his charitable work after his release from prison. Milken's separate, SEC-imposed lifetime ban on securities trading continues.
02/18/20	Paul Pogue	Three years' probation; $250,000 fine; and $473,604.09 restitution	Making and subscribing a false tax return	Pogue, the founder and executive of a Texas-based construction company, pleaded guilty for under-reporting his taxable income in 2004, 2005 and 2006, failing to pay more than $400,000 taxes owed. In 2019, Pogue's son Ben Pogue and daughter-in-law Ashleigh Pogue gave a total of $238,541 to Trump Victory, a vehicle for Trump's reelection campaign. Former Republican senator Rick Santorum was a leading advocate for Pogue's pardon; Paul Pogue had been a contributor to Santorum's presidential election bid.
02/18/20	Rod Blagojevich	14 years in prison; two years' supervised release; $20,000 fine	wire fraud (10 counts); conspiracy/attempted extortion (four counts); corrupt solicitation of funds; conspiracy to corruptly solicit funds (two counts); making false statements	Blagojevich, a Democrat, was a former governor of Illinois and a contestant on Trump's reality TV show, The Celebrity Apprentice. Convicted of attempting to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, plus extortion by withholding state funds being directed towards a children's hospital and a race track. The Illinois House impeached him for abuse of power and corruption. In two separate and unanimous votes of the Illinois Senate, he was removed from office and prohibited from ever holding public office in the state of Illinois again.
08/28/20	Alice Marie Johnson	Life sentence (previously commuted to time served)	Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine; attempted possession of 12 kilos of cocaine with intent to distribute; attempted possession of 9 kilos of cocaine; attempted possession of 75 kilos of cocaine; attempted possession of 10 kilos of cocaine; conspiracy to commit money laundering; money laundering ($1.5 million); structuring monetary transactions	Two years after Trump commuted Johnson's sentence, he issued her a full pardon in August 2020. Johnson was convicted in 1996 for her involvement in a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization and sentenced to life imprisonment. Trump commuted Johnson's sentence following a meeting with Kim Kardashian; the commutation of the sentence caused Johnson's release from prison after more than 21 years. On 10/21/20, five more persons associated with Johnson were pardoned.
11/25/20	Michael T. Flynn	N/A – Flynn's pardon was issued after his conviction, but before his scheduled sentencing hearing.	Making false statements to Federal investigators	Flynn, Donald Trump's National Security Advisor, pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI in December 2017, during the Mueller special counsel investigation, but his sentencing was delayed.
12/22/20	Alex van der Zwaan	30 days in federal prison; $20,000 fine; 2 months supervised release	Making false statements	A Dutch attorney, Van der Zwaan was prosecuted in the Mueller special counsel investigation.
12/22/20	Alfonso Antonio Costa	Three years' probation, conditioned upon one year's home confinement and 100 hours' community service; $250,000 fine; $44,579.47 restitution	Health care fraud	Costa, a former Pittsburgh dentist-turned-developer who became a friend and business partner of Ben Carson, Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, pleaded guilty to making fraudulent oral surgery claims; he was sentenced in 2008.
12/22/20	Christopher Carl Collins	26 months in federal prison	Making false statements, conspiracy to commit securities fraud	Collins is a former Republican congressman and a staunch Trump supporter; he pleaded guilty in 2019 to an insider trading scheme. Collins' son Cameron Collins, who pleaded guilty to participating in the crime and was sentenced to probation, was not pardoned by Trump.
12/22/20	Duncan D. Hunter	11 months in federal prison	Misusing campaign funds	A former United States representative, Hunter was set to begin his sentence in January 2021.
12/22/20	Dustin Laurent Heard; Evan Shawn Liberty	Voluntary manslaughter; attempted voluntary manslaughter; using and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and aiding and abetting and causing an act to be done	Slatten, Slough, Liberty, and Heard were four Blackwater contractors who opened fire n Nisoor Square in 2007, while guarding an American diplomat, killing at least 14 Iraqi civilians. Trump did not pardon a fifth Blackwater guard, who pleaded guilty and cooperated with the prosecution.	The pardons of the four men were condemned by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which warned that the pardons undermined accountability for war crimes, and "expressed extreme concern that by permitting private security contractors to operate with impunity in armed conflicts, States would be encouraged to circumvent their humanitarian law obligations by outsourcing core military operations to the private sector."
12/22/20	George Papadopoulos	14 days in prison; 12 months of supervised release; 200 hours of community service; $9,500 fine	Making false statements	Papadopoulos, one of the Trump campaign's foreign policy advisers, was the first individual to be prosecuted in the Mueller special counsel investigation.
12/22/20	Ignacio Ramos; Jose Compean; Nicholas Abram Slatten; Paul Alvin Slough	132 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $2,000 fine; sentence commuted in 2009	Assault with a dangerous weapon, assault with serious bodily injury, discharge of firearm in commission of a crime of violence, tampering with official proceedings and deprivation of rights under color of law.	Ramos and Compean were Border Patrol Agents who attempted to subdue a drug smuggler in 2005. First physically hitting the individuals, then with service weapons. Upon the man's escape, they made efforts to cover up the crime and did not report it. Their sentences were commuted by President George W. Bush in 2009.
12/22/20	Judith Negron	35 years' imprisonment (as amended); three years' supervised release; and $87,533,863.46 restitution	Conspiracy to commit health care fraud; health care fraud (two counts); conspiracy to defraud the United States and to receive and pay health care kickbacks; conspiracy to commit money laundering; money laundering (16 counts); structuring to avoid reporting requirements (three counts)	Commutation of supervised release, after earlier commutation of prison sentence in February 2020. Negron, of Hialeah, Florida, age 49 at the time of the commutation, was convicted for her role in a major Medicare fraud scheme. The commutation released her from prison after serving eight years of her 35-year sentence and relieved her from her obligation to pay the remainder of $87 million in restitution.
12/22/20	Philip Esformes	240 months' imprisonment; three years supervised release; $5,530,207 restitution	Conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay and receive health care kickbacks; receipt of kickbacks in connection with a federal health care program (two counts); payment of kickbacks in connection with a federal health care program (four counts); conspiracy to commit money laundering; money laundering (six counts); conspiracy to commit federal program bribery; conspiracy to commit federal program bribery and honest services wire fraud; obstruction of justice	Esformes ran a network of nursing homes in Chicago that he used to perpetrate a massive Medicaid fraud scheme involving about $1.3 billion in fraudulent claims. Esformes used the proceeds of the scheme for luxury goods and private jet travel. The Aleph Institute, a group that was influential in Trump's clemencymaking, lobbied for his commutation; the organization received $65,000 from Esformes's family from 2016 to 2019, during Esformes' prosecution and imprisonment. Esformes was arrested on October 12, 2024, for domestic violence. He was released a couple of days later after posting $1,650 in bail.
12/22/20	Phillip Kay Lyman	36 months' probation conditioned upon 10 days' incarceration; $1,000 fine; $95,955.61 restitution (December 18, 2015)	Conspiracy to operate off-road vehicles on public land closed to off-road vehicles; operation of off-road vehicle on public lands closed to off-road vehicles	Lyman, a Republican politician was a San Juan County, Utah, county commissioner at the time of the crime and a member of the Utah House of Representatives at the time of the pardon. He led an "ATV protest" in which about 50 ATV riders, seeking to challenge federal management of public lands, drove on the Recapture Canyon in a southeastern Utah, a site containing Native American cliff dwellings. The Bureau of Land Management had closed the area to motorized traffic. Lyman was convicted of misdemeanor trespassing in 2014 and sentenced in 2015. Upon Trump's grant of the pardon, the Trump White House issued a statement asserting that Lyman had been "subjected to selective prosecution."
12/22/20	Steve Stockman	10 years' imprisonment; $1,014,718.51 in restitution; three years of supervised release	Mail fraud, money laundering, violations of federal election law	Stockman, a former Republican congressman from Texas, had been convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison for misusing $1.25 million in donations from political donors by spending the money on personal expenses rather than charity, as he had pledged. The commutation released Stockman from prison after two years.
12/23/20	Charles Kushner	24 months in prison	Tax evasion, witness tampering, and making illegal campaign donations	Charles Kushner is a wealthy real estate executive and the father of Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. After Charles Kushner learned that his brother-in-law was cooperating with federal investigators, Kushner hired a prostitute to lure the man into a motel room with a hidden camera, and sent the recording of the subsequent encounter to the man's wife (Kushner's sister) to retaliate against him. Then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie called the case "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" that he prosecuted. Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 counts, including tax evasion, witness tampering, and violating federal contribution regulations. He was sentenced to two years in prison (and ultimately ended up spending 14 months) and ordered to pay $508,900 to the FEC. After being released, Kushner returned to his real estate businesses.
12/23/20	Gary Mark Brugman	27 months' imprisonment; two years' supervised release	Deprivation of rights under color of law	Brugman, a former U.S. Border Patrol agent, was convicted in 2002 of violating the civil rights of a man attempting to cross the border from Mexico into Texas. Court records showed that in January 2001, Brugman struck two men who were not resisting. Brugman denied wrongdoing, and his case became a cause célèbre among conservative figures.
12/23/20	Irving Stitsky	85 years imprisonment	Substantive and conspiratorial counts of securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud	Shapiro and Stitsky defrauded $23 million from 250 investors.
12/23/20	James Harutun Batmasian	Eight months' imprisonment; two years' supervised release	Willful failure to pay over tax	Batmasian, a South Florida real-estate investor and property management businessman influential in Boca Raton, pleaded guilty to failing to pay more than quarter-million in payroll tax owed.
12/23/20	Jesse R. Benton; John Frederick Tate	Two years' probation conditioned upon six months' home confinement and 160 hours' community service; $10,000 fine (September 20, 2016)	Conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States; causing false records; causing false campaign contribution reports; false statements scheme	Benton and Tate were Ron Paul's campaign chairman and campaign manager, respectively, during Paul's unsuccessful 2012 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. They were convicted of concealing payments of $73,000 to state Senator Kent Sorenson in exchange for Sorenson's switching of his endorsement from Michele Bachmann to Paul ahead of the Iowa caucus. (The payments were disguised as "audio/visual expenses"). Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt (who oversaw the criminal case against Sorenson) ridiculed Trump's pardon, saying, "It's not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals."
12/23/20	Joseph Occhipinti	37 months' imprisonment (commuted to time served on January 15, 1993); two years' supervised release	Conspiracy to violate civil rights; deprivation of rights under color of law (10 misdemeanor counts); false statements (six counts)	Occhipinti, a former INS agent, was convicted of crimes related to the illegally detention and searches of Hispanic store owners in New York City and a subsequent cover-up effort. After he spent seven months in prison, his sentence was commuted by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, now pardoned by Trump.
12/23/20	Mark D. Siljander	12 months and one day's imprisonment; six months' supervised release	Obstruction of justice; acting as an unregistered foreign agent	Siljander was a Republican congressman from 1981 to 1987, from a southwestern Michigan district. He pleaded guilty in 2010 to acting as an unregistered foreign agent in connection with his work for Islamic American Relief Agency, which hired him in early 2004 to lobby to get the organization removed from a list of Senate committee list of entities suspected of providing funding for terrorism. Siljander also pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice; prosecutors stated that he had falsely claimed payments from IARA were charitable donations. IARA closed in October 2004 after it was added to the Treasury Department's list of global terrorist organizations due to the group's links to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida and the Taliban. Siljander was never charged with terrorism. In issuing the pardon, the Trump White House cited Siljander's anti-abortion record while a congressman and his post-prison work abroad.
12/23/20	Mark Shapiro	85 years imprisonment	Substantive and conspiratorial counts of securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud	Shapiro and Stitsky defrauded $23 million from 250 investors.
12/23/20	Mary McCarty	42 months' imprisonment; three years supervised release; $100,000 fine	Conspiracy to commit honest services fraud	McCarty was elected five times to the Palm Beach County, Florida county commission starting in 1990. In 2009, she pleaded guilty to honest services fraud for directing municipal bond-underwriting transactions to her husband Kevin McCarty (d. 2018) and other associates, and for accepting items of value from a company she supported for a Palm Beach County Convention Center hotel contract. McCarty served 21 months of her 3.5-year sentence.
12/23/20	Paul J. Manafort	(1) 47 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $50,000 fine; $25,497,487.60 restitution (as amended by court order on March 21, 2019); (2) 73 months' imprisonment; 36 months' supervised release (concurrent); $6,164,032 restitution	Five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to disclose a hidden foreign bank account; two counts of conspiracy	Manafort — who was Trump's Presidential Campaign Chairman—was prosecuted during the Mueller special counsel investigation. Manafort spent less than two years in prison, having been released to home detention in May 2020 as part of an effort to reduce prison populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because Trump's pardon was unconditional, the Department of Justice dropped a criminal forfeiture proceeding to obtain the properties held by Manafort: a Bridgehampton, Long Island mansion, an apartment in Chinatown, Manhattan, and a Brooklyn townhouse.
12/23/20	Rickey Ivan Kanter	12 months and one day's imprisonment; two years' supervised release; $50,000 fine	Mail fraud	Kanter, the founder of the "Dr. Comfort" diabetic shoe company, was convicted of mail fraud in connection with an illegal Medicare reimbursement scheme. In addition to the criminal penalty, Kanter paid a multimillion-dollar civil penalty.
12/23/20	Roger Stone	40 months' imprisonment; 24 months' supervised release conditioned upon performance of 250 hours' community service; $20,000 fine	Making false statements to Congress (five counts), Witness tampering, Obstructing an official proceeding	Trump pardoned Stone, one of his campaign advisors, having already commuted his sentence six months earlier. Following the insurrection on January 6, 2021, Stone wanted a second pardon but did not receive one, and on a January 20 phone call he threatened to support the second impeachment of Trump. Stone is a friend and adviser of Trump, who was a member of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. In November 2019, Stone was convicted by a jury on all seven charges that he faced, in relation to his actions during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. The sentencing judge stated that Stone had been "prosecuted for covering up for the president" — Trump himself.
01/13/21	David Tamman	84 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; and a $2,500 fine	Conspiracy to obstruct justice; destruction, alteration, falsification of records, aiding and abetting, causing an act to be done; accessory after the fact; obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting	Tamman, a former partner at the law firms Nixon Peabody and Greenberg Traurig, was convicted of 2012 for conspiring with a client to obstruct a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into a $22 million Ponzi scheme. Tamman was fired by the law firms and disbarred by the State Bar of California in 2016. Alan Dershowitz, who was one of Trump's lawyers, represented Tamman in his unsuccessful appeal. Convicted in 2012, Tamman was released from prison in February 2019. His pardon was supported by the Aleph Institute, which was influential in Trump's clemency decisionmaking; the Trump White House also stated that former FBI director Louis Freeh and former federal prosecutor Kendall Coffey supported the pardon.
01/13/21	Fred Davis Clark Jr.	480 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $179,076,941.89 restitution	Bank fraud (three counts); false statement in connection with federally insured loan (three counts); obstruction of official proceeding	Clark, of Orlando, Florida, masterminded a $300 million Ponzi scheme targeting residents of Clearwater and other Florida cities as part of a vacation rental scam. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2016. Trump's commutation immediately released Clark from prison, but left intact his five years of supervised released and obligation to pay $179 million in restitution. The Tampa Bay Times editorial board criticized Trump's commutation of Clark's sentence, describing it as an "outrageous injustice reeks of favoritism and privilege and confirms how easily a president can abuse clemency power."
01/13/21	Frederick J. Nahas	One month's imprisonment; three years' supervised release; and a $20,000 fine	Obstruction of justice in a health care investigation	Nahas, a surgeon from Somers Point, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in 2002 to obstruction of justice in connection with his concealment of documents that had been subpoenaed in an investigation. He spent one month in prison in 2003, and was also sentenced to two months of weekend confinement in a halfway house, three months of home confinement, and a fine of $20,000. Nahas's pardon was supported by Republican congressman Jeff Van Drew, to whose campaign Nahas had donated $3,000.
01/13/21	Jon Michael Harder	180 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release (as amended by order of December 2, 2015)	Mail fraud; engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity	Harder, the founder and CEO of Sunwest Management (once the U.S. third-largest assisted living chain, operating more than 300 homes at its peak), was convicted of defrauding investors and money laundering after the company collapsed. He was sentenced to 12 years; Trump commuted the prison term.
01/13/21	Kwame M. Kilpatrick	336 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $4,799,826.61 restitution	Racketeering conspiracy; interference with commerce by extortion (five counts); bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds; mail fraud (10 counts); wire fraud (two counts); subscribing false tax return (six counts)	Kilpatrick, a Democrat who was mayor of Detroit from 2002 until his resignation in 2008, was tried and convicted on 24 corruption counts for using his office to enrich himself and associates, and was sentenced to 28 years. Kilpatrick denied responsibility, but all his appeals were rejected. Trump's commutation reduced his sentence to time served, releasing him from prison immediately (20 years early) rather than in 2037. Along with the sentence given to Jimmy Dimora, Kilpatrick's sentence was a record length for a public corruption scandal. U.S. Attorney Matthew J. Schneider strongly criticized Trump's grant of a commutation to Kilpatrick, calling him a "disgraced ... notorious and unrepentant criminal" who "earned every day he served in federal prison for the horrible crimes he committed against the people of Detroit." The current mayor of Detroit, Mike Duggan, supported Kilpatrick's commutation, calling him "a person of great talent who still has much to contribute." Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Kilpatrick's crimes were "reprehensible" but that his sentence was harsh. The commutation left intact Kilpatrick's obligation to pay $195,000 owed to the IRS and $1.5 million in restitution to the City of Detroit. Prior to receiving clemency, Kilpatrick had praised Trump, writing letters saying that his tenure had been an "unprecedented success." Kilpatrick's bid for clemency was supported by a number of Trump allies, including Diamond and Silk and Peter Karmanos Jr.
01/13/21	Paul Erickson	84 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $2,976,937 restitution	Wire fraud; money laundering	Erickson, a Republican political operative, pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering; court records stated that he was part of schemes that bilked $5.3 million from 78 investors from 1996 to 2018, including a scheme involving fake housing in the Baaken oil fields in North Dakota. Erickson told investors that they would receive returns of up to 150%; he spent the money received from the scheme on personal expenses, including for Maria Butina, to whom Erickson was romantically linked. Butina was later revealed to be a Russian agent. Erickson was sentenced to seven years in prison, and was serving his sentence at the time Trump pardoned him. In issuing the pardon, Trump's White House asserted that Erickson had committed only a "minor financial crime." Trump's aide Kellyanne Conway advocated the pardon.
01/13/21	Paul . Behrens; Peter E. Clay; Thaddeus M. S. Bereday	24 months' imprisonment; two years' supervised release	Making false statements relating to health care matters (two counts); health care fraud (two counts)	Behrens, Bereday, and Clay are respectively the former chief financial officer, general counsel, and vice president of Florida-based WellCare Health Plans. All three were convicted of charges of making false statements in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicaid. Bereday and Clay also pleaded guilty to fraud.
01/13/21	Randall Harold "Duke" Cunningham	100 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $1,804,031.50 restitution	Conspiracy to commit crimes against the United States; tax evasion	Cunningham, a former seven-term Republican congressman from a San Diego, California-based district, pleaded guilty in 2005 to conspiracy and tax evasion for taking $2 million in bribes from defense contractors in exchange for federal contracts, possibly the largest bribery scandal in the history of the U.S. Congress (see Cunningham scandal). He served eight years in federal prison, and lived in Arkansas after his release. Cunningham kept a "bribe menu" on congressional stationery listing the payments military contractors should make to him in exchange for his help securing government contracts. The pardon is conditional and preserves Cunningham's court-ordered obligation to pay off the $3.6 million in restitution and forfeiture. Trump's pardon of Cunningham was condemned by the federal prosecutors who led the case, as well as others.
01/13/21	Robert Cannon Hayes	One year's probation; $9,500 fine	False statements	Hayes, a former Republican congressman from North Carolina (1999–2009) and former chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, pleaded guilty in 2019 to lying to the FBI regarding a scheme by Greg Lindberg, billionaire insurance businessman and political donor, to bribe Insurance Commission Mike Causey. In addition to Hayes, Lindberg and two of his associated were charged. Causey, who contacted law enforcement authorities and helped them investigate, was never accused of wrongdoing.
01/13/21	Thomas K. (Ken) Ford	Three years' probation; $2,000 fine	Violating mandatory safety standards; making false material statements and representations	Ford, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to making false statements to federal mining regulators, later became an executive at a Western Kentucky coal company.
01/13/21	Todd S. Farha; William L. Kale	3 years and 1 year imprisonment; $50,000 fine	Health care fraud (two counts)	Former president and vice-president Florida-based WellCare Health Plans; convicted of fraud and making false statements in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicaid.
01/19/21	Abel Holtz	45 days' imprisonment; two years' supervised release, conditioned upon an unspecified term of home confinement and community service; $20,000 fine (as amended)	Obstruction of justice	Holtz, an influential Miami, Florida banker and philanthropist who founded Capital Bank, pleaded guilty in October 1994 to lying to a federal grand jury about paying tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to Alex Daoud, a corrupt city commissioner (and later mayor) of Miami Beach. Holtz's previous 2006 pardon application was denied by President George W. Bush.
01/19/21	Aviem Sella		Espionage - conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information (two counts); violation of Subversive Activities Control Act - receiving or obtaining classified information by foreign agent	Sella was an Israeli Air Force officer and Mossad operative who recruited and handled Jonathan Pollard, an American naval intelligence analyst who spied for Israel. Shortly before Pollard was arrested, Sella fled the U.S. He was indicted for espionage in 1987, but was never extradited to stand trial. The Trump White House said that Sella's petition for a pardon was requested by the Israeli government and supported by Miriam Adelson, the wife of conservative mega-donor Sheldon Adelson.
01/19/21	Benedict Guthrie Olberding	Five years' probation; $614,154.37 restitution	Bank fraud	Olberding was a mortgage broker in North Carolina who, along with a co-defendant, arranged loans with financial institutions between 2007 and 2009 with fraudulent information.
01/19/21	Brian Lyle McSwain	18 months' imprisonment, including approximately four months' community confinement; three years' supervised release	Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute marijuana and cocaine	McSwain was a Greenville, South Carolina police officer who pleaded guilty in 1993 to involvement in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, in which he was one of 26 co-defendants, including Richard Riley Jr., the son of former South Carolina Governor Richard Riley. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sought the pardon for McSwain.
01/19/21	Carl Andrew Boggs III	30 months in prison, two years of supervised release and $15,000 fine	Conspiracy to defraud the United States Department of Transportation and money laundering	His paving business, Boggs Paving Inc, accepted a contract with South Carolina Department of Transportation to widen Interstate 26 through Lexington and Calhoun counties in 2013. Following the mismanaged project, Boggs and four of his employees were convicted of crimes related to the use of a disadvantaged business enterprise to obtain $88 million in government contracts.
01/19/21	Casey Urlacher		Conspiracy to defraud the United States; illegal gambling; money laundering	Casey Urlacher is the mayor of Mettawa, Illinois, and the younger brother of former Chicago Bears player Brian Urlacher, who visited the Trump White House in March 2020 and contributed to Republican and Trump's campaigns and Republican organizations. In February 2020, Casey Urlacher was indicted on two counts of conspiring to engage in illegal offshore gambling in connection with his recruitment of bettors for a Costa Rica-based website in exchange for a cut of the proceeds. Urlacher was one of 10 people charged in the federal grand jury indictment; none of the others received pardons. The Republican leader in the Illinois State Senate, Dan McConchie, who defeated Urlacher in a 2016 primary election, criticized the pardon of an indicted defendant who had not yet been convicted, saying: "Pardons should be done on the merits of the case, not based on a relationship with the President. This sort of practice undermines the public's faith in our system. We're supposed to be a nation of laws, not one based on people getting benefits just because of who they know."
01/19/21	Chalana C. McFarland	360 months' imprisonment; 5 years' supervised release; $11,417,352.44 restitution	Conspiracy to commit bank fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers, fraudulent transfer of identification, fraud against the Department of Housing and Urban Development, money laundering, engagement in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, and obstruction of justice; bank fraud (30 counts); wire fraud (60 counts); money laundering (73 counts); obstruction of justice; perjury (4 counts)	McFarland, an Atlanta real estate closing attorney who was the ringleader of a mortgage fraud scheme that lasted from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The loans obtained by fraud totaled almost $20 million. She had been convicted of 169 counts in 2005. The commutation released her from prison after serving 15 years of a 30-year sentence; her request for clemency was supported by the CAN-DO Foundation.
01/19/21	Douglas Jemal	Five years' probation; $175,000 fine	Wire fraud	Jemal, age 79 at the time of the pardon, was an influential Washington, D.C., real estate developer who was convicted of wire fraud in 2006 in connection with an efforts to influence a local government official to obtain profitable government leases. Jemal's leasing chief and two other employees were also convicted on varying charges. Jemal has been a major political donor to both parties over the years, and is a friend of Jared Kushner; he donated $100,000 to the Republican National Committee in 2020. In issuing the pardon, the White House referred to Jemal's charitable work and said he was "credited with rebuilding many urban inner cities." Trump did not grant pardons to Jemal's underlings; this was criticized by the lead prosecutor on the case, who said that the subordinates were "far less culpable" than Jemal and that the pardon sent a message "that there are two standards of accountability: One for the wealthy and well-connected, and one for everyone else."
01/19/21	Drew Kallman "Bo" Brownstein	One year and one day of imprisonment; three years' supervised release, conditioned on 500 hours' community service; $7,500 fine	Securities fraud (insider trading)	Brownstein, a hedge fund operator and son of prominent Denver, Colorado attorney and lobbyist Norman Brownstein, pleaded guilty in 2012 to insider trading. His company made a $2.44 million profit from a trade in energy companies that he made after learning about a pending corporate acquisition from a friend.
01/19/21	Duncan Fordham	52 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $1,021,888 restitution	Health care fraud	Fordham was an Augusta, Georgia pharmacist convicted in 2005 of his involvement in a health care fraud scheme. Under the scheme, Fordham would obtain contracts to operate the pharmacy of Community Mental Health Center of East Central Georgia, and then give a third of his large bonus in kickbacks to former State Representative Robin L. Williams.
01/19/21	Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (Lil Wayne)		Possession of firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon	Carter, a rapper who performs under the name Lil Wayne, pleaded guilty in December 2020 to being a felon in possession of a firearm (specifically, a gold-plated .45-caliber Glock).
01/19/21	Eliyahu (Eli) Weinstein	(1) 264 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $215,350,459 restitution; $215,350,459 forfeiture; (2) 135 months' imprisonment (all but 24 months concurrent); three years' supervised release; $6,176,750 restitution; $6,176,150 forfeiture	(1) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud; monetary transactions from specified lawful activity; (2) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud; committing wire fraud while on pretrial release; transacting in criminal proceeds	Weinstein, age 45 at the time of the commutation, was a con man and former used car salesman from Lakewood, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to running a $200 million Ponzi scheme involving phony real estate investments and—while awaiting trial on those charges—running a $6.7 million scam claiming special access to the Facebook, Inc. initial public offering. Sentenced to 24 years in prison, he was represented in his request for clemency by Alan Dershowitz, who was also Trump's personal lawyer. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, who as an Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuted Weinstein, called Trump's grant of clemency "one huckster commuting the sentence of another." Weinstein hired Nick Muzin, a lobbyist and former aide to Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott, to lobby Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows for clemency. Weinstein's commutation had been supported by New Jersey Democrat-turned-Republican, Congressman Jeff Van Drew. On July 19, 2023, with four others who had helped him to hide his assets to avoid paying restitution, Weinstein was rearrested for conducting an estimated $35 million Ponzi scheme.
01/19/21	Elliott Broidy		Conspiracy to serve as an unregistered agent of a foreign principal	Broidy, a California businessman and Republican fundraiser, was a major donor to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Trump's inauguration, and was also a deputy finance chairman for the Republican National Committee. He pleaded guilty in October 2020 to conspiring to violate foreign lobbying laws by accepting $9 million from Jho Low, a fugitive Malaysian businessman, in order to influence the Trump administration's Justice Department to drop its investigation into fraud and embezzlement at the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, and by seeking to extradite wealthy Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui from the United States as part of a bid to get payoffs from China and the United Arab Emirates. As part of his guilty plea, Broidy admitted that he knowingly failed to register as a foreign agent and agreed to forfeit $6.6 million. Broidy faced a sentencing hearing in February 2021 before Trump pardoned him on his last full day in office. Trump did not pardon Nickie Lum Davis, a Hawaii businesswoman who had pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting Broidy's crimes, and who had cooperated with the government; Lum Davis's attorney called Trump's decision to grant clemency to Broidy, but not his less culpable underling, "incomprehensible" and unjust.
01/19/21	Fatino Bernadett	15 months' imprisonment (surrender ordered February 26, 2021); one year's supervised release; $60,000 fine	Misprison of a felony	Bernadett, a physician and former owner of the Pacific Hospital in Long Beach, California, pleaded guilty in 2019 to failing to report a years-long health care fraud that scammed the California worker's compensation system of millions of dollars. Bernadett was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison; he was pardoned before he served prison time, which had been delayed due to his poor health and the COVID-19 pandemic. In announcing the pardon, the Trump White House referred to Bernadett's charitable work and noted that he did not initiate the kickback scheme.
01/19/21	George Gilmore	12 months and one day's imprisonment; three years' supervised release	Two counts of failing to pay payroll taxes to the IRS and one count of making false statements on a bank loan application	Gilmore was the former chairman of the Ocean County, New Jersey Republican Party, and a power broker in New Jersey Republican politics. He was convicted by a jury in 2019, but maintained that he was innocent and contended that his failure to make timely payments owed to the IRS was attributable to a hoarding disorder. He was sentenced in 2020, but was free on bail pending the appeal. Bill Stepien, Trump's former campaign manager and a longtime associate of Gilmore's, lobbied for the pardon, which was supported by other influential New Jersey figures, such as Chris Christie, Jim McGreevey, Jim Florio, Donald DiFrancesco, Kim Guadagno, and Tom MacArthur.
01/19/21	Glen Moss	Three years' probation, conditioned upon cooperation with the IRS in resolving $100,000 in unpaid taxes for the years 1991 and 1992; $4,000 fine	Payment to non-licensed physician; attempt to evade or defeat tax	Moss, a member of the Trump's golf club in Westchester County, New York, was listed as donating $10,000 to the Trump Foundation in 2008. Trump pardoned him for his involvement in a health-care fraud scheme.
01/19/21	Gregory Louis Reyes	18 months' imprisonment; two years' supervised release; $15 million fine	Conspiracy to commit securities and mail fraud; fraud in connection with Brocade stock, aiding, abetting and willfully causing; false SEC filing, aiding, abetting and willfully causing (three counts); falsifying books, records and accounts, aiding, abetting and willfully causing; false statement to accountant, aiding, abetting and willfully causing (four counts)	Reyes was the first person to be convicted of an offense related to options backdating. As CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, he falsified financial records and made false statements to accountants between 2000 and 2004 regarding stock option compensation.
01/19/21	Hillel "Helly" Nahmad	One year and one day's imprisonment; three years' supervised release, conditioned upon 300 hours' community service; $30,000 fine (April 30, 2014)	Illegal gambling	Helly Nahmad is a Madison Avenue art dealer who is a member of the wealthy Nahmad family and son of the noted art collector David Nahmad. The younger Nahmad owns the entirety of Trump Tower's 51st floor, reportedly purchased at the cost of $21 million. He pleaded guilty to organizing an illegal $100 million gambling ring with suspected links to Russian organized crime out of Trump Tower. His art gallery in New York's Carlyle Hotel was raided by federal agents in 2013; Nahmad later pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2014. He was also ordered to forfeit $6.4 million in earnings. Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov was indicted in connection with the case, but was never arrested.
01/19/21	Jaime A. Davidson	Life imprisonment plus five years' imprisonment; five years' supervised release	Conspiracy to distribute cocaine; distribute cocaine (four counts); murder of DEA agent; murder of DEA agent in furtherance of drug conspiracy; use of firearm during drug trafficking crime	Davidson was a drug kingpin who was sentenced to life for ordering a robbery in 1990 that led to the murder of Wallie Howard, a Syracuse, New York police officer working as an undercover investigator. The commutation released Davison, age 52 at the time of the commutation, from prison after serving 29 years of a life sentence. Davidson never accepted responsibility for the crime and maintained for years that he was wrongfully convicted. Trump's commutation of Davidson's sentence was criticized by the region's congressman John Katko, Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, and the federal prosecutor who handled the trial. In May 2023, he was sentenced to three months in prison for misdemeanor domestic battery.
01/19/21	James Austin Hayes, IV	One year's probation	Insider trading conspiracy	Hayes was one of several people convicted of particiting in an insider trading ring that operated between 2010 and 2012 led by a Wells Fargo employee who disclosed confidential information about impending mergers.
01/19/21	James E. Johnson Jr.	One year's probation; $7,500 fine	Hunting over bait and aiding and abetting the same; killing migratory game bird without retaining in actual custody	Johnson, of Virginia, unlawfully baited and killed migratory birds in Pamlico County, North Carolina, in 2007, and pleaded guilty to the offense the following year.
01/19/21	Jeffrey Alan Conway	13 months' imprisonment; two years' supervised release; $20,000 fine	Conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States	Conway was the chief financial officer of Rent-Way Inc., a rental purchase chain. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to falsify accounting records, and was released from prison the next year. He subsequently became a restaurateur based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
01/19/21	Jonathan Braun	10 years' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $100,000 fine	Conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States; money laundering	Braun served one year of a 10-year sentence for running a large-scale drug trafficking organization. While on bail awaiting sentencing, he fled to Canada and then to Israel where court records indicate he continued to lead the drug ring. The New York Times reported that the commutation had come about at the urging of Charles Kushner, father of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Subsequently, in a civil suit brought against Braun by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York State Attorney General for his involvement in a predatory loan operation that targeted and threatened small business owners, Braun was fined $20 million in February 2024. On August 20, 2024, Braun was charged for assaulting his wife on two occasions and punching his 75-year-old father-in law who was trying to protect his daughter on a third occasion. In 2025, prosecutors said Braun "had continued a pattern of violence, including sexually assaulting a nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse and threatening a congregant at his synagogue. He was also accused of assaulting a 3-year-old, and was continuing to make usurious loans to struggling small businesses" and "had “repeatedly evaded” a $4 toll while driving his Ferrari and Lamborghini".
01/19/21	Kenneth Kurson (Jayden Wagner, Eddie Train)		Interstate stalking and harassment	Kurson, an ally of the Trump family, was appointed the editor-in-chief of The New York Observer in 2013 by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who at the time owned the newspaper. Kurson and Kushner became close friends. Kurson also wrote a speech for Trump in his 2016 campaign, and was a longtime associate of Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer. In October 2020, Kurson was charged with cyberstalking three people and harassing two other people. He was pardoned on the last full day of Trump's term, before he could stand trial.
01/19/21	Kyle Kimoto	350 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $34,915,321.30 restitution	Conspiracy; mail fraud in connection with telemarketing; wire fraud in connection with telemarketing (12 counts)	Kimoto had served 12 years of his 29-year sentence, convicted of leading a telemarketing scheme involving deceptive credit card offers. His commutation was recommended by Jewel and Ivanka Trump.
01/19/21	LaVonne Arlene Roach	30 years' imprisonment; five years' supervised release	Conspiracy to distribute controlled substance	Roach, of Rapid City, South Dakota, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, age 56 at the time of the commutation, served 23 years of her 30-year sentence for methamphetamine dealing. Prior to the commutation, she had been scheduled for release in July 2023 due to good-time credit. Governor Kristi Noem and the prosecutor in her case supported the commutation, which remitted the rest of her prison sentence but kept the five-year term of supervised release intact.
01/19/21	Michael A. Liberty	Four months' imprisonment; one year's supervised release; $100,000 fine	Political contributions in the names of others and aiding and abetting	Liberty is a former Maine developer who pleaded guilty in 2016 to unlawfully donating $22,500 in 2011 to the primary campaign of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in violation of the federal campaign contribution limit ($2,500). He was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, one year of supervised release, and $100,000 fine, and was released from federal prison in 2018. In subsequent years, he donated to Republican organizations and Trump's campaign. A federal grand jury in 2019 indicted him and an associate on charges of scamming $50 million from investors; they have pleaded not guilty. At the time of the pardon, Liberty was living in Florida.
01/19/21	Michael H. Ashley	36 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $49,307,759.84 restitution	Bank fraud	Ashley was chief business strategist at Melville, New York-based Lend America, a large mortgage lender that imploded in 2009, resulting in $49 million in federally guaranteed loans (backed by Ginnie Mae) from being unfunded. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dorothy Eisenberg wrote in 2013 that Ashley "diverted over $50 million" of money from Lend America's parent company's "for his own benefit, and/or for the benefit of his affiliated entities or relatives"; Ashley pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 2011 and was sentenced in 2019. Trump's commutation eliminated Ashley's prison term (which he had been ordered to serve starting in March 2021). However, the commutation left intact the court's order to serve five years of supervised release, pay $49 million in restitution, and forfeit $800,000.
01/19/21	Michael Harris (Harry O)	235 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release	Possession with intent to distribute less than 500 grams of cocaine hydrochloride; using/carrying a firearm during or in relation to a drug trafficking crime	Harris was a co-founder of the Death Row Records record label. Snoop Dogg had been one of the advocates of clemency for Harris. Subsequent to the commutation, Harris endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election and was pardoned of his drug offenses in 2025.
01/19/21	Monstsho Eugene Vernon	482 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $10,930 restitution	Attempted armed bank robbery; armed bank robbery (six counts); use and carry of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence (two counts)	Vernon was granted clemency after serving 19 years of a 40-year prison sentence for a string of bank robberies in Greenville County, South Carolina, in 2001.
01/19/21	Patrick Lee Swisher	30 months' imprisonment; two years' supervised release; $5,000 fine	Fraudulent tax return/statement and making false statements	Swisher, the founder of Swisher Hygiene, was convicting of failing to report $1.9 million in stock sales on his 1996 and 1997 tax returns.
01/19/21	Richard George (Rick) Renzi	36 months' imprisonment; three years supervised release; $25,000 fine	Conspiracy to commit extortion, attempted extortion and wire and mail fraud; honest wire services wire fraud (six counts); conspiracy to commit money laundering; concealment of money laundering; transactions with criminally derived funds (two counts); extortion under color of official right (two counts); conspiracy to make false statement; insurance fraud (two counts); racketeering	Renzi, a former Republican congressman from 2003 to 2009 from a northeastern Arizona district, was convicted in 2013 on 17 federal counts, including racketeering, money laundering, extortion, and filing false statements with regulators. He served three years in prison and was released in 2017. Renzi denied wrongdoing and insisted that the prosecution was politically motivated.
01/19/21	Robert C. Sherrill	50 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release	Cocaine distribution	Sherrill served five years in federal prison for cocaine distribution; after his release, he became a Nashville, Tennessee businessman, entrepreneur, non-profit founder, and author. Sherrill was previously pardoned in 2019 by Governor Bill Haslam. His pardon was supported by congressman Mark E. Green.
01/19/21	Robert S. Corkern	3 years of supervised release	Aiding and abetting in bribery involving federal programs	In 2007 Corkern paid $25,000 to a Panola County administrator to secure a $400,000 payment to the Tri-Lakes Medical Center to which Corkern's business, Batesville Hospital Management, provided services. The Trump White House press release said that the pardon was supported by Republican U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi; and Phil Bryant, the Republican former governor of Mississippi.
01/19/21	Robert Zangrillo		Conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud; conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery; money laundering conspiracy; wire fraud and honest services wire fraud (six counts); federal programs bribery (two counts); filing a false tax return	Zangrillo is a prominent Miami businessman and the founder of the private investment firm Dragon Global. He was arrested in March 2019 and charged with taking part in the Varsity Blues college admissions bribery scheme by paying $250,000 to get his daughter accepted as a transfer student to the University of Southern California (USC). Zangrillo pleaded not guilty, and prior to the pardon, he was set to stand trial in September 2021. The White House said that the pardon was supported by USC alumnus and university trustee Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a longtime Trump friend who chaired his inauguration committee. However, Barrack denied involvement in the pardon.
01/19/21	Salomon E. Melgen	204 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $52,997,442 restitution (as amended April 5, 2018)	Health care fraud (36 counts); false, fictitious and fraudulent claims (19 counts); false statements relating to health care (11 counts)	Trump commuted the remainder of the prison sentence of Melgen, a prominent South Florida ophthalmologist who had been sentenced to 17 years for a $73 million scheme to defraud the government of Medicare payments from 2008 and 2013; Melgen's practice grew "by giving elderly patients unnecessary eye injections and laser blasts on their retinas that some compared to torture." Melgen's case was high-profile in part because of his association with Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ); Menendez was tried (but not convicted) on charges of accepting gifts from Melgen.
01/19/21	Sholam Weiss	835 years' imprisonment (as amended by order of July 16, 2009); three years' supervised release; $123,399,910 fine; $125,016,656 restitution; and a January 9, 2009 order of $57,213,591.46 forfeiture (as amended on June 7, 2011, and May 5, 2012)	Racketeering; racketeering conspiracy (27 counts); interstate transportation of stolen property (23 counts); money laundering (29 counts); false statements (two counts)	Weiss, a former New York businessman, orchestrated a series of financial frauds that led to the collapse of the National Heritage Life Insurance Company. While out on bail, Weiss fled the country and became a fugitive for more than a year in Austria. He was sentenced to 835 years in 2000. Weiss's nephew advocated his commutation, and Weiss hired lobbyist Brett Tolman to persuade Trump to grant it. Prominent backers of Weiss's clemency bid included Edwin Meese, Seth Waxman, and Alan Dershowitz.
01/19/21	Stephen Bannon		Conspiracy to commit wire fraud; conspiracy to commit money laundering	Trump pardoned Bannon, a former top 2016 campaign advisor to Trump and his former White House chief strategist, after Bannon was arrested and indicted in August 2020 on charges of misappropriating money donated to the "We Build the Wall" organization for personal expenses. Bannon had pleaded not guilty and had not yet been brought to trial when Trump issued the pardon. Trump did not pardon Bannon's co-defendants: Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato, and Timothy Shea, all of whom pleaded not guilty.
01/19/21	Stephen Odzer (Harold J. Odzer)	18 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $16,150,017.83 restitution (as amended on June 5, 2007)	Bank fraud	Odzer pleaded guilty of defrauding three banks of $16 million but cooperated as a witness in another case.
01/19/21	Syrita Rashida Steib-Martin	120 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $1,934,169.31 restitution	Use of fire to commit a felony	In 2000, Steib was convicted for her involvement in an auto theft that culminated in the burning of a Tyler, Texas car dealership; she was released from prison in 2009 after serving nine years.
01/19/21	Tommaso Buti		Conspiracy to defraud the United States; fraud by wire, radio, or television (35 counts); scheme to defraud: money, state tax stamps (transportation of stolen property (14 counts); money laundering - racketeering (laundering monetary instruments conspiracy)	Buti, a prominent restaurateur, had partnered with Trump in the late 1990s on Trump Management, a modeling agency. He was subsequently investigated on allegations of stealing from his chain of restaurants, and was indicted in 2000. Buti denied wrongdoing and was tried and acquitted on similar charges in his native Italy. He was never extradited to New York to stand trial on the U.S. charges, and Trump's pardon terminated the still-open case against him.
01/19/21	William E. "Ed" Henry	Two years' probation; $4,000 fine	Theft of government property	Henry was a former Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives. He pleaded guilty in January 2019 to aiding and abetting theft of government property in connection with his involvement in a Medicare fraud scheme. Alabama's Republican U.S. Senator, Tommy Tuberville, supported the pardon.
01/20/21	Albert J. (Al) Pirro Jr.	29 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $62,446 restitution	Conspiracy to defraud the United States; tax evasion (four counts); fraud (29 counts)	Pirro, a former power broker in New York Republican politics, is the former husband of Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News host and consistent Trump ally.
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