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Trump grants full pardon to Russia probe figure George Papadopoulos
The White House said Papadopoulos was charged with a process-related crime, one count of making false statements, as part of the Mueller probe, which Trump had denounced as a witch hunt.
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Steve Holland / Reuters | 6:29 pm, Dec. 22, 2020 ×
George Papadopoulos, a former member of the foreign policy panel to Donald Trump s 2016 presidential campaign, poses for a photo before a TV interview in New York, New York, March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Tuesday to George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide who pleaded guilty as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to 15 people, including four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone.
The others pardoned by Trump on Tuesday include George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide who pleaded guilty as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and two former Republican legislators.
The outgoing president also pardoned Alex van der Zwaan, 36, the Dutch son-in-law of Russian billionaire German Khan.
Van der Zwaan was sentenced to 30 days in prison and fined $20,000 for lying to US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators about contacts with an official in Trump’s 2016 campaign.