President Trump issued a series of pardons to individuals convicted of financial crimes in February 2025, including Rod Blagojevich (former Illinois governor convicted of corruption), the Chrisleys (reality TV stars convicted of bank fraud), Michael Grimm (former congressman convicted of tax fraud), …
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President Trump issued pardons to multiple financial criminals in his first week, including a Trump loyalist convicted of wire fraud, a corporation fined $100 million for money laundering violations, and the son of a longtime Republican donor. The pardons extended to Rod Blagojevich who had been …
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President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, reducing her 35-year prison term to seven years served with a release date of May 17, 2017. The commutation came after Manning attempted suicide twice in 2016 while serving her sentence as a transgender woman in a men’s military …
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