Trump pardons Bannon, dozens more
By Eli Stokols and Laura King
Los Angeles Times/TNS
WASHINGTON - With hours left in office, President Donald Trump early Wednesday pardoned several dozen individuals including former campaign and White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon, charged with federal fraud and money laundering charges in an alleged scheme to defraud supporters of the president’s top-priority border wall.
Bannon, who has pleaded not guilty, became the latest political ally to win such a show of legal largesse from the departing president as Trump granted clemency after midnight to some 143 individuals, including drug offenders serving life sentences, in what appears to be his final executive action.