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20 Jan, 28 tweets, 8 min read
Full list of last night’s pardons and commutations: whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
They include Todd Boulanger, a lobbyist who was part of the Abramoff scandal

justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…
Abel Holtz, a banker with DC ties who lied to a grand jury

washingtonpost.com/archive/busine…
Former GOP congressman Rick Renzi who used his position of power to make lots of money

phoenixnewtimes.com/news/rick-renz…
Ken Kurson, a close friend of Jared Kushner arrested for cyberstalking

nytimes.com/2020/10/23/nyr…
Casey Urlacher, accused by government of having "acted as a recruiter and bagman for a sports gambling ring that raked in millions of dollars from hundreds of Chicago-area bettors"

chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-…
Carl Andrews Boggs, prosecuted for illegal use of a disadvantaged business enterprise to obtain government-funded construction contracts

justice.gov/usao-wdnc/pr/m…
Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, found guilty of what one judge called the “biggest trade secret crime I have ever seen”

theverge.com/2021/1/20/2224…
Israeli Air Force officer Aviem Sella, who recruited notorious spy Jonathan Pollard

thedailybeast.com/aviem-sella-wh…
Michael Liberty, who made illegal campaign contributions and defrauded 200 individual investors from which he raised $55 million

justice.gov/usao-me/pr/flo…

forbes.com/sites/nathanva…
Gregory Reyes, guilty of securities fraud, specifically back-dating stock option grants to increase their value

content.time.com/time/specials/…
Eliyahu Weinstein, guilty of "a real estate investment fraud scheme that caused $200 million in losses"

patch.com/new-jersey/poi…
John Davis, a CEO who orchestrated a $4.6 million kickback scheme

nashvillepost.com/business/healt…
Elliott Broidy, who led a "covert campaign to influence the administration on behalf of Chinese and Malaysian interests."

nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/…
Stephen K. Bannon, charged with fraud for "defrauding donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of a fundraising campaign purportedly aimed at supporting Trump's border wall."

cnn.com/2020/08/20/pol…
Johnny D. Phillips, Jr., part of a fake coal mining scheme, which defrauded 168 investors of more than $14 million dollars

justice.gov/usao-edtn/pr/n…
Former NC GOP Party Chair Robin Hayes, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in a sweeping federal bribery case.

charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-…
Ex-Sunwest CEO Jon Harder, led a multimillion-dollar, nationwide investor fraud scheme that cost investors at least $120 million

statesmanjournal.com/story/news/cri…
David Tamman, who helped obstruct two separate investigations into an investment scheme that ultimately took $22 million from victims

justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/a…
Paul Erickson "came under the scrutiny of federal investigators who were monitoring (Russian agent Maria) Butina. That scrutiny lead to an investigation of his various business enterprises, which existed to defraud investors."

argusleader.com/story/news/202…
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a Democrat, "convicted on 24 federal felony counts, including mail fraud, wire fraud, and racketeering."

clickondetroit.com/news/local/202…
ANOTHER corrupt former GOP congressman! Randall “Duke” Cunningham -- "the most corrupt member of Congress ever if measured by the amount of bribes he admitted accepting."

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Las Vegas gambler William “Billy” Walters, sentenced to prison over his role in a $43 million insider-trading scheme.

cnbc.com/2017/07/27/gam…
Stephen Odzer pleaded guilty to felony charges of defauding three New York banks of more than $16 million.

inquirer.com/news/par-fundi…
Sholam Weiss, a former fugitive from justice, was convicted of 78 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen funds, money laundering & more, having defrauded a life insurance company of more than $125 million.

archives.fbi.gov/archives/tampa…
Salomon Melgen had been sentenced to prison for "stealing $73 million from Medicare by persuading elderly patients to undergo excruciating tests and treatments they didn't need for diseases they didn't have."

sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-bea…
Those are just some of them! There are others who were convicted of non-violent drug offenses as well, but the aforementioned were pretty swampy
The Trump WH website is now archived. Here's the list:

trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-stat…

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