President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted a full pardon to Aviem Sella, the handler of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, as part of the outgoing president's spree of clemency actions in his last hours in office.
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President Donald Trump issued a raft of 11th-hour pardons and commutations early Wednesday that included his onetime political strategist, a former top fundraiser and two well-known rappers but not himself or his family.
President Trump issued 70 commutations and pardoned 73 people, including his former political strategist Steve Bannon, on early Wednesday in his final hours in office. Bannon had pleaded not guilty to charges that he defrauded donors in a “We Build the Wall” online fundraising campaign. “Mr. Bannon has been an important leader in the conservative movement and is known for his political acumen,” the White House said in the statement. Others among the list of 143 people included Elliott Broidy, a former top fundraiser for the president’s campaign who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy relating to a secret lobbying campaign to influence the Trump administration for a foreign billionaire for millions of dollars, as well as rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, who had pleaded guilty to a gun possession charge and a weapons charge, respectively. Trump commuted the sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and granted clemency to Paul Erickson,