Jan. 20, 2021 12:57 am
Below is the full list of Trump’s pardons and commutations, issued just before 1am.
Neither Assange nor Snowden are on the list. Steven Bannon is, along with former RNC official Elliott Broidy and rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black:
President Donald J. Trump granted pardons to 73 individuals and commuted the sentences of an additional 70 individuals.
Todd Boulanger – President Trump granted a full pardon to Todd Boulanger. Mr. Boulanger’s pardon is supported by numerous friends, as well as by past and present business associates. In 2008, Mr. Boulanger pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud. He has taken full responsibility for his conduct. Mr. Boulanger is a veteran of the United States Army Reserves and was honorably discharged. He has also received an award from the City of the District of Columbia for heroism for stopping and apprehending an individual who assaulted an elderly woman with a deadly weapon on Capit
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19 Jan 2021
President Donald Trump announced late Tuesday night that he had pardoned and commuted the sentences of 143 people in the final hours of his presidency.
The president issued 73 pardons and 70 commutations.
The list included pop culture figures including rapper Lil Wayne, who was pardoned, and Kodak Black, whose sentence was commuted.
The president also pardoned several Republicans, including former Deputy National Finance Chair of the Republican National Committee Elliott Broidy, former Rep. Duke Cunningham of California, and former Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona.
He also issued a pardon for his former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who was charged with fraud for his work on the “We Build the Wall” crowdfunding campaign fueled by Trump supporters to build a wall on the Southern border.
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President Donald Trump pardoned 73 people and commuted the sentences of 70 others late Tuesday in a move that favored some of his associates and supporters, including former chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Trump granted a full pardon to Bannon after he was charged with defrauding donors to an online crowdfunding campaign for the border wall, report the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico and the National Law Journal. A White House press release is here.
Also pardoned was former Nixon Peabody partner David Tamman, according to the National Law Journal. Tamman was convicted for altering financial documents that were the subject of a federal investigation. Prosecutors had alleged that Tamman helped hide a Ponzi scheme by his client, John Farahi, the founder of NewPoint Financial Services. Tamman had been represented on appeal by Alan Dershowitz, a prof