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The cottage industry behind Trump’s pardons: How the rich and well-connected got ahead at the expense of others
Beth Reinhard, Rosalind Helderman, Tom Hamburger, Josh Dawsey
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As president, Donald Trump issued a blizzard of 144 pardon and commutations in his final hours at the White House.
A federal judge in South Dakota was blunt last summer when she sentenced Paul Erickson, a seasoned Republican operative who had pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering.
“What comes through is that you’re a thief, and you’ve betrayed your friends, your family, pretty much everyone you know,” District Judge Karen E. Schreier told Erickson in July, before sentencing him to seven years in prison for scamming dozens of people out of $5.3 million. ....

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