WASHINGTON (CN) Outgoing President Donald Trump issued a pardon to former campaign manager-turned-convict Paul Manafort on Wednesday.
Manafort was convicted in August 2018 in a federal court in Virginia on eight counts of bank and tax fraud, failing to file a report for a foreign bank account and falsifying his income on federal tax returns.
The president also issued pardons to Charles Kushner, father of Jared Kushner, and Roger Stone, a long time loyalist to President Trump, friend and former business partner of Paul Manafort.
During his trial, prosecutors unraveled Manafort’s role in hiding millions of dollars that flowed through a complex web of foreign bank accounts; records of funds that he often had doctored to defraud tax preparers and bankers.