List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump
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{{See also|List of people granted executive clemency in the second presidency of Donald Trump}}
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During his tenure as the 45th president of the United States (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021), Donald Trump granted executive clemency to 237 individuals in his first term, all of whom were charged or convicted of federal criminal offenses.
Background
{{See also|Powers of the president of the United States}}
The U.S. president's power of clemency arises from Article II of the United States Constitution. Clemency "may take several forms, including pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve",{{cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/pardon/index.html|title=USDOJ: Office of the Pardon Attorney|date=March 2, 2014|publisher=USDOJ|access-date=2017-08-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105004108/http://www.justice.gov/pardon/index.html|archive-date=2015-01-05|url-status=live}} with the two most commonly used forms being a pardon or commutation. A pardon is an official forgiveness for an acknowledged crime. Once a pardon is issued, all further punishment for the crime is waived.{{cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardon-information-and-instructions|title=Pardon Information and Instructions|date=January 12, 2015|website=www.justice.gov|access-date=6 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190206065942/https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardon-information-and-instructions|archive-date=6 February 2019|url-status=live}} The president can only grant pardons for federal offenses.{{Cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions-concerning-executive-clemency#0|title=Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Executive Clemency {{!}} PARDON {{!}} Department of Justice|website=www.justice.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128231918/https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions-concerning-executive-clemency|archive-date=2017-11-28}} When the president commutes a sentence, it reduces the severity of a sentence without voiding the conviction itself; for example, a commutation may reduce or eliminate a prison term, while leaving other punishments intact. The power of clemency is "one of the most unlimited powers bestowed on the president by the Constitution."
Trump's first-term use of executive clemency
=Role of the OPA=
For 125 years, the key adviser to the president on clemency has been the Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney (OPA) which normally reviews all requests for pardons. Trump often bypassed the OPA, and, unlike previous presidents, made the majority of his grants to executive clemency to "well-connected offenders who had not filed petitions with the pardon office or did not meet its requirements." Ultimately, of the 237 grants of clemency by Trump, only 25 came through the Office of the Pardon Attorney's process (which at the end of Trump's presidency had a backlog of 14,000 applications); the other clemency recipients came to Trump's attention through an ad hoc process at the Trump White House that benefited clemency applicants with money or connections to Trump allies, friends, and family members. Most of Trump's pardons and commutations were granted to people with personal or political connections to him. He frequently bypassed the OPA, and the majority of his executive clemency grants were made to well-connected convicts who did not file a petition with the OPA or meet the OPA's requirements.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pardon-power-russia-probe-mueller/2020/12/24/c55000c8-45fd-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html |date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=October 3, 2021 |title=Trump wields pardon power as political weapon, rewarding loyalists and undermining prosecutors |newspaper=The Washington Post |first1=Toluse |last1=Olorunnipa |first2=Josh |last2=Dawsey |author-link1=Toluse Olorunnipa |author-link2=Josh Dawsey |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225012115/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pardon-power-russia-probe-mueller/2020/12/24/c55000c8-45fd-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html |archive-date=December 25, 2020 |language=en |url-status=live}}{{Cite news| last1 = Reinhard| first1 = Beth| first2 = Anne| last2 = Gearan| title = Most Trump clemency grants bypass Justice Dept. and go to well-connected offenders| newspaper = The Washington Post | access-date = February 22, 2020| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/most-clemency-grants-bypass-doj-and-go-to-well-connected-offenders/2020/02/03/4e8f3eb2-21ce-11ea-9c2b-060477c13959_story.html| archive-date = February 15, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204215/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/most-clemency-grants-bypass-doj-and-go-to-well-connected-offenders/2020/02/03/4e8f3eb2-21ce-11ea-9c2b-060477c13959_story.html| url-status = live}}{{cite web |last1=Goldsmith |first1=Jack |last2=Gluck |first2=Matt |title=Trump's Circumvention of the Justice Department Clemency Process |url=https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trumps-circumvention-justice-department-clemency-process |website=www.lawfaremedia.org |publisher=Lawfare |access-date=3 January 2021 |date=December 29, 2020 |archive-date=October 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004034040/https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trumps-circumvention-justice-department-clemency-process |url-status=live }}
Legal experts raised concerns that Trump was "relying on his personal connections rather than the Justice Department's established review process for finding convicts deserving of clemency." A late December 2020 analysis by Harvard Law School's Jack Goldsmith determined that "seven of the 94 Trump grants came on recommendation from the pardon attorney" and "at least 84 out of 94 Trump pardons had a personal or political connection to the president." On February 19, 2020, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy requested information on the process used by Trump in deciding to grant clemency to 11 people the preceding day.{{Cite news|first1=Paul|last1=LeBlanc|first2=Zachary|last2=Cohen|date=February 19, 2020|title=Sen. Leahy presses Justice Department over involvement in Trump pardon spree|work=CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/politics/trump-pardon-leahy/index.html|access-date=February 22, 2020|location=Washington}}{{Cite news|title=Trump just granted clemency to 11 people. Here's a look at each|work=CNN Politics|first1=Betsy|last1=Klein|first2=Ali|last2=Zaslav|access-date=February 22, 2020|date=February 19, 2020|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/politics/trump-pardons-commutations/index.html|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204253/https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/politics/trump-pardons-commutations/index.html|url-status=live}} In response to the criticism of his bypassing of the OPA, Trump said that he is the "chief law enforcement officer of the country."{{Cite news|last1=Olorunnipa|first1=Toluse|last2=Reinhard|first2=Beth|title=Post-impeachment, Trump declares himself the 'chief law enforcement officer' of America|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=February 22, 2020|date=February 19, 2020|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/post-impeachment-trump-declares-himself-the-chief-law-enforcement-officer-of-america/2020/02/18/b8ff49c0-5290-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html}}
=Number of pardons=
Overall, Trump granted fewer clemencies than many of the modern presidents during his first term.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/us/pardons-trump.html |title=Outside Trump's Inner Circle, Odds Are Long for Getting Clemency |first=Frances |last=Robles |date=December 28, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=September 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230051128/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/us/pardons-trump.html |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |language=en |url-status=live}}
Since 1921, only two Presidents granted clemency on fewer occasions than Trump. In Trump's first term, he granted clemency 237 times, compared with about 78 by George H.W. Bush and about 200 by George W. Bush. Of the pardons and commutations that Trump did grant, the vast majority were to persons to whom Trump had a personal or political connection, or persons for whom executive clemency served a political goal.Kenneth P. Vogel, [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/us/politics/trump-pardons.html "The Road to Clemency from Trump Was Closed to Most Who Sought It"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204217/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/us/politics/trump-pardons.html |date=February 15, 2021 }}, The New York Times (January 26, 2020). A significant number had been convicted of fraud or public corruption.{{Cite web|last=Frum|first=David|date=2021-01-20|title=Swamp Thing |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-was-swamp/617748/ |access-date=2021-01-20|website=The Atlantic |language=en|archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204203/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-was-swamp/617748/ |url-status=live}} The New York Times reported that during the closing days of the Trump presidency, individuals with access to the administration, such as former administration officials, were soliciting fees to lobby for presidential pardons.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons.html |title=Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump |first1=Michael S. |last1=Schmidt |first2=Kenneth P. |last2=Vogel |date=January 17, 2021 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120160733/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons.html |url-status=live}}
Compared to other presidents, Trump granted clemency at low rates, with the bulk coming later in his term. Of Trump's grants of clemency, 84% were made in his last fiscal year in office,John Gramlich, [https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/22/trump-used-his-clemency-power-sparingly-despite-a-raft-of-late-pardons-and-commutations Trump used his clemency power sparingly despite a raft of late pardons and commutations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207032943/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/22/trump-used-his-clemency-power-sparingly-despite-a-raft-of-late-pardons-and-commutations/ |date=February 7, 2021 }}, Pew Research Center (January 22, 2021). with 144 (60%) of his 237 grants of clemency being granted on his last night in office; the list was "assembled so hastily that it contained inaccurate information about some cases."
Former Justice Department official and Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissmann noted that the language of Trump's pardons varied, ranging from a broad pardon of Michael Flynn to narrower pardons for several others, including Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, which Weissmann argued created "windows of opportunity" to prosecute individuals who had been narrowly pardoned.{{Cite web|url=https://www.justsecurity.org/74241/the-gaps-in-trumps-pardons-how-the-biden-administration-can-still-pursue-justice/|title=Gaps in Trump's Pardons Apply to Bannon Criminal Charges As Well.|date=January 24, 2021|website=Just Security|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204208/https://www.justsecurity.org/74241/the-gaps-in-trumps-pardons-how-the-biden-administration-can-still-pursue-justice/|url-status=live}}
=Major beneficiaries=
==Supporters and political allies==
Trump's use of the pardon power was marked by an unprecedented degree of favoritism. He frequently granted executive clemency to his supporters or political allies,{{Cite news|last1=Baker|first1=Peter|last2=Haberman|first2=Maggie|last3=LaFraniere|first3=Sharon|date=July 10, 2020|title=Trump Commutes Sentence of Roger Stone in Case He Long Denounced|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-clemency.html|access-date=July 16, 2020|archive-date=July 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711001349/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-clemency.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first1=Peter|last1=Baker|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-nixon.html|title=In Commuting Stone's Sentence, Trump Goes Where Nixon Would Not|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 11, 2020|access-date=July 16, 2020|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204138/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-nixon.html|url-status=live}} or following personal appeals or campaigns in conservative media,{{cite news|first1=Spencer S.|last1=Hsu|first2=Rachel|last2=Weiner|first3=Toluse|last3=Olorunnipa|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-hes-looking-at-pardoning-roger-stone-ahead-of-prison-term/2020/07/10/d1a1e5ea-c2b7-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html|title=Trump commutes sentence of confidant Roger Stone who was convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 10, 2020|access-date=July 11, 2020|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204216/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-hes-looking-at-pardoning-roger-stone-ahead-of-prison-term/2020/07/10/d1a1e5ea-c2b7-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html|url-status=live}} as in the cases of Rod Blagojevich, Michael Milken, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, and Clint Lorance, as well as Bernard Kerik. Trump granted clemency to five of his former campaign staff members and political advisers: Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Stephen K. Bannon, and George Papadopoulos.Aaron Blake, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/trumps-swampiest-pardons-ranked/ Trump's swampiest pardons, ranked] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204156/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/trumps-swampiest-pardons-ranked/ |date=February 15, 2021 }}, Washington Post (January 20, 2021).
Many of Trump's grants of clemency were criticized by the federal agents and prosecutors who investigated and prosecuted the cases. Trump's grant of clemency to Stone in July 2020 marked the first time Trump granted clemency to a "figure directly connected to the president's campaign." Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn B. Maloney, who chair two House committees, said that "No other president has exercised the clemency power for such a patently personal and self-serving purpose" and said that they would investigate whether Stone's commutation was a reward for protecting Trump. Most Republican elected officials remained silent on Trump's commutation of Stone. Exceptions were Republican senators Mitt Romney, who termed the commutation "unprecedented, historic corruption," and Pat Toomey, who called the commutation a "mistake" due in part to the severity of the crimes of which Stone was convicted.{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/11/republicans-denounce-roger-stone-commutation-357259|title=Historic corruption': 2 Republican senators denounce Trump's commutation of Stone|first=Andrew|last=Desiderio|work=Politico|date=July 11, 2020|access-date=July 12, 2020|archive-date=July 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712110558/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/11/republicans-denounce-roger-stone-commutation-357259|url-status=live}}{{Cite press release|url=https://www.toomey.senate.gov/?p=news&id=2688|title=Toomey Statement on the Commutation of Roger Stone|publisher=Office of Senator Pat Toomey|date=July 11, 2020|access-date=July 16, 2020|archive-date=July 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712175449/https://www.toomey.senate.gov/?p=news&id=2688|url-status=live}}
==Requests by celebrities==
In 2018, following a request by celebrity Kim Kardashian, Trump commuted the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson who had been convicted of drug trafficking.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-has-commuted-the-life-sentence-of-alice-marie-johnson-a-woman-whose-case-was-championed-by-kim-kardashian/2018/06/06/ce5bbf20-69a7-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html|title=Trump has commuted the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman whose case was championed by Kim Kardashian|newspaper=The Washington Post|first1=John|last1=Wagner|first2=Sari|last2=Horwitz|date=June 6, 2018|access-date=June 13, 2018}} In August 2020, he pardoned Johnson after she had praised his leadership in a campaign video at the 2020 Republican National Convention.{{cite news|last=Baker|first=Peter|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/politics/trump-alice-johnson-pardon.html|title=Trump Extends Pardon to Alice Johnson After She Praises Him at Convention|work=The New York Times|date=August 28, 2020|access-date=February 22, 2022}}{{cite news|last=Vazquez|first=Maegan|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/28/politics/donald-trump-alice-johnson-pardon/index.html|title=Trump pardons Alice Johnson|work=CNN|date=August 28, 2020|access-date=February 22, 2022}}
==Military personnel accused or convicted of war crimes==
Trump granted executive clemency to three court-martialed U.S. military officers who were accused or convicted of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.{{Cite news|author=Scott D. Sagan & Benjamin A. Valentino|newspaper=Washington Post|title=Do Americans approve of Trump's pardons for court-martialed military officers?|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/16/do-americans-approve-trumps-pardons-court-martialed-military-officers/|date=December 12, 2019|access-date=July 16, 2020|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204157/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/16/do-americans-approve-trumps-pardons-court-martialed-military-officers/|url-status=live}} Trump granted the pardons against the advice of senior military and Defense Department leadership, as well as U.S. military lawyers. Critics state that Trump's pardons of the officers undermined military discipline, constituted an inappropriate interference in the U.S. military justice system, and called into question the U.S. commitment to the law of armed conflict.{{Cite news|author=Robert Burns|date=November 25, 2019|work=Associated Press|title=Esper says Trump ordered him to stop SEAL review board|url=https://apnews.com/2148f2182aa64d8c8102967d653b0ba0|access-date=July 16, 2020|archive-date=November 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126023940/https://apnews.com/2148f2182aa64d8c8102967d653b0ba0|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|author=Noor Zafar|title=Trump's War Pardons Are Sabotaging the Military Justice System|url=https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/trumps-war-pardons-are-sabotaging-the-military-justice-system/|publisher=American Civil Liberties Union|date=December 13, 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/trump-war-crimes/602731/|author=Adam Serwer|title=The War-Crimes President: When violence is directed at those Trump's supporters hate and fear, they see such excesses not as crimes but as virtues.|newspaper=The Atlantic|date=November 27, 2019}} Tensions between Trump and the Defense Department regarding Trump's interventions in the military justice system culminated in the firing of Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer.{{Cite news|author1=Dave Philipps |author2=Peter Baker |author3=Maggie Haberman |author4=Helene Cooper |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/us/politics/trump-seals-eddie-gallagher.html|date=November 30, 2019|title=Trump's Intervention in SEALs Case Tests Pentagon's Tolerance|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=July 16, 2020|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204206/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/us/politics/trump-seals-eddie-gallagher.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |author=Maggie Haberman |author-link=Maggie Haberman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/us/politics/trump-war-crimes-pardons.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409121722/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/us/politics/trump-war-crimes-pardons.html |archive-date=April 9, 2020 |title=Trump Brings 2 Officers He Cleared of War Crimes Onstage at Fund-Raiser |date=December 8, 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times}} Two ex-military officers pardoned by Trump appeared with the president at campaign events in 2019.
==Congressmen==
Trump issued pardons to seven Republican congressmen convicted of crimes: Chris Collins, Duncan D. Hunter, Steve Stockman, Rick Renzi, Robin Hayes, Mark Siljander, and Randall "Duke" Cunningham.
==Healthcare industry==
Trump also granted clemency to at least ten healthcare executives and doctors convicted in large-scale Medicare fraud schemes.Eric Lipton, [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/politics/trump-pardons-medicare-fraud.html For Prosecutors, Trump's Clemency Decisions Were a 'Kick in the Teeth'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204145/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/politics/trump-pardons-medicare-fraud.html |date=February 15, 2021 }}, New York Times (January 21, 2021).[https://khn.org/morning-breakout/trumps-pardons-included-doctors-health-care-execs-convicted-of-fraud/ Trump's Pardons Included Doctors, Health Care Execs Convicted of Fraud] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204218/https://khn.org/morning-breakout/trumps-pardons-included-doctors-health-care-execs-convicted-of-fraud/ |date=February 15, 2021 }}, Kaiser Health News Morning Briefing (January 22, 2021). The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association criticized Trump's pardons to executives who orchestrated massive Medicare frauds.Fred Schulte, [https://khn.org/news/article/trumps-pardons-included-health-care-execs-behind-massive-frauds/ Trump's Pardons Included Health Care Execs Behind Massive Frauds], Kaiser Health News (January 22, 2021).
==Wealthy individuals==
Many wealthy individuals paid tens of thousands of dollars to former advisors to Trump for them to lobby Trump to grant pardons, bypassing the review process of the Office of the Pardon Attorney.{{Cite news|last1=Schmidt|first1=Michael S.|last2=Vogel|first2=Kenneth P.|date=2021-01-17|title=Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons.html|access-date=2021-01-18|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120160733/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons.html|url-status=live}} Trump former personal lawyer John M. Dowd was hired by a number of convicts to lobby Trump for clemency, taking advantage of his direct access to Trump's White House Counsel's Office. Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union and a lobbyist close to Trump administration, also lobbied Trump for clemency on behalf of their clients, as did Mark D. Cowan, another lobbyist allied with the administration. Trump's White House Counsel Pat Cipollone was officially in charge of the internal White House pardon process, but "key gatekeepers" included Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Trump was also influenced by a "kitchen cabinet" that included Tolman; Americans for Prosperity chairman Mark Holden; Trump's former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker; Trump clemency recipient Alice Marie Johnson; and Trump's former attorney Pam Bondi, a former Florida Attorney General.
=Chronology=
From 2017 to 2019, the pardons included former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio;{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-grants-pardon-former-sheriff-joe-arpaio-n796191|title=President Trump Grants Pardon for Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio|first1=Vaughn|last1=Hillyard|first2=Phil|last2=Helsel|work=NBC News|date=August 26, 2017|access-date=April 29, 2020}} former Navy sailor Kristian Saucier, who was convicted of taking classified photographs of classified areas inside a submarine;{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/03/09/592440282/trump-pardons-ex-navy-sailor-sentenced-for-photos-of-submarine|title=Trump Pardons Ex-Navy Sailor Sentenced For Photos of Submarine|first=Ryan|last=Lucas|work=NPR|date=March 9, 2018|access-date=April 29, 2020}} Scooter Libby, a political aide to former vice president Dick Cheney;{{cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/13/president-trump-plans-to-pardon-former-cheney-chief-of-staff-scooter-libby.html|title=President Trump pardons former Cheney chief of staff Scooter Libby|first1=Mike|last1=Calia|first2=Jacob|last2=Pramuk|date=April 13, 2018|work=CNBC|access-date=April 30, 2020}} conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-offers-pardon-to-conservative-pundit-dinesh-dsouza-for-campaign-finance-violations/2018/05/31/b4939a08-64d5-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html|title=Trump pardons conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, suggests others also could receive clemency|newspaper=The Washington Post|first1=Philip|last1=Rucker|author-link1=Philip Rucker|first2=Josh|last2=Dawsey|author-link2=Josh Dawsey|first3=John|last3=Wagner|date=May 31, 2018|access-date=April 30, 2020}} He pardoned or reversed the sentences of three American soldiers convicted or accused of war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq.{{cite news|last=Philipps|first=Dave|title=Trump's Pardons for Servicemen Raise Fears That Laws of War Are History|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/us/trump-pardon-military.html|access-date=December 23, 2020|work=The New York Times|date=November 16, 2019}}
In November and December 2020, Trump pardoned four Blackwater guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre;{{cite news|last1=Haberman|first1=Maggie|last2=Schmidt|first2=Michael S.|author-link1=Maggie Haberman|author-link2=Michael S. Schmidt|title=Trump Pardons Two Russia Inquiry Figures and Blackwater Guards|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/trump-pardons.html|access-date=December 23, 2020|work=The New York Times|date=December 22, 2020}} white-collar criminals Michael Milken and Bernard Kerik;{{cite news|last1=Baker|first1=Peter|author-link1=Peter Baker (journalist)|last2=Haberman|first2=Maggie|author-link2=Maggie Haberman|last3=Shear|first3=Michael D.|author-link3=Michael D. Shear|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/politics/trump-pardon-debartolo.html|title=Trump Commutes Corruption Sentence of Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois|date=February 18, 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 18, 2020}} and daughter Ivanka's father-in-law Charles Kushner. He also pardoned five people convicted as a result of investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections: Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Alex van der Zwaan, Roger Stone, whose 40-month sentence for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction he had already commuted in July, and Paul Manafort.{{cite news|last1=Kelly|first1=Amita|last2=Lucas|first2=Ryan|last3=Romo|first3=Vanessa|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949820820/trump-pardons-roger-stone-paul-manafort-and-charles-kushner|title=Trump Pardons Roger Stone, Paul Manafort And Charles Kushner|work=NPR|date=December 23, 2020|access-date=March 21, 2021}}
In his last full day in office, Trump granted 143 pardons and commutations, including to his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy, and former Republican congressmen Rick Renzi, Robert Hayes, and Randall "Duke" Cunningham. He also commuted the sentences of dozens of people, including former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and sports gambler Billy Walters; the latter had paid tens of thousands of dollars to former Trump attorney John M. Dowd to plead his case with Trump.{{cite news|first1=Maggie|last1=Haberman|author-link1=Maggie Haberman|first2=Kenneth P.|last2=Vogel|author-link2=Kenneth P. Vogel|first3=Eric|last3=Lipton|author-link3=Eric Lipton|first4=Michael S.|last4=Schmidt|author-link4=Michael S. Schmidt|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/trump-pardons.html|title=With Hours Left in Office, Trump Grants Clemency to Bannon and Other Allies|date=January 20, 2021|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 20, 2021}}
=Responses=
File:President Trump Meets with Sentencing Commutation Recipients (49624188912).jpg
In October 2019, New York enacted the TRUST Act, which was signed into law by Andrew Cuomo. Among other things, the act closed a double jeopardy provision of state law to allow state prosecutors to pursue charges for violations of New York law against individuals pardoned by the president for a violation of federal law. The New York legislation was aimed at Trump's use of the pardon power.{{cite web|author1=Allan Smith |author2=Dareh Gregorian |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/cuomo-signs-law-aimed-weakening-trump-s-pardon-power-closes-n1065151|work=NBC News|date=October 16, 2020|title=Cuomo signs law aimed at weakening Trump's pardon power, closes 'double jeopardy' loophole|access-date=July 16, 2020|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021064221/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/cuomo-signs-law-aimed-weakening-trump-s-pardon-power-closes-n1065151|url-status=live}} New York state attorney general Letitia James, proposed the law after multiple former Trump associates were investigated in New York state. James' office also investigated the finances of Trump and the Trump Organization. Upon passage of the law, James said that "We have a responsibility to ensure that individuals who commit crimes under New York state law are held accountable for those crimes. This critical new law closes a gaping loophole that could have allowed any president to abuse the presidential pardon power by unfairly granting a pardon to a family member or close associate and possibly allow that individual to evade justice altogether."
List of recipients of executive clemency from Trump
= Pardons =
Trump issued a total of 144 pardons during his first four years in office: 1 in 2017, 6 in 2018, 11 in 2019, 52 in 2020, and 74 in January 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-statistics#DonaldJTrump|title=Clemency Statistics|date=January 12, 2015|publisher=Office of the Pardon Attorney, United States Department of Justice|access-date=January 21, 2021|archive-date=January 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121043111/https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-statistics#DonaldJTrump|url-status=live}}.
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= Commutations =
During Trump's first term, he issued 94 commutations: 1 in 2017, 3 in 2018, 2 in 2019, 18 in 2020, and 70 in January 2021.
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| {{nobr|December 20}}, 2017
| {{nobr|Sholom Rubashkin}} | June 22, 2010 | 324 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $26,852,152.51 restitution | Bank fraud (14 counts); false statements and reports to a bank (24 counts); wire fraud (14 counts); mail fraud (nine counts); money laundering and aiding and abetting (10 counts); willful violation of order of Secretary of Agriculture and aiding and abetting (15 counts) | Rubashkin was the chief executive of Agriprocessors, a large meatpacking corporation. The company's plant in Postville, Iowa, once the U.S.'s largest kosher meatpacking operation, was the raided by immigration agents in 2008, and almost 400 undocumented workers, including several children, were detained. Rubashkin was convicted of bank fraud and related offenses for fabricating collateral for loans; prosecutors said that as a result of Rubashkin's conduct, banks lost more than $26 million. After his fraud conviction, the immigration-related charges against Rubashkin were dropped; some of the plant's managers and supervisors were convicted of harboring illegal immigrants (a felony) and approximately 300 employees at the plant (mostly Guatemalans) were convicted of identity theft.Mitch Smith, [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/us/president-trump-iowa-commutation.html President Commutes Sentence of Iowa Meatpacking Executive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122214701/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/us/president-trump-iowa-commutation.html |date=January 22, 2021 }}, New York Times (December 20, 2017). The commutation released Rubashkin from prison 19 years earlier than planned, but left in place a term of supervised release and a substantial restitution obligation.{{cite web|url=https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/1431003/breaking-news-sholom-rubashkin-has-been-freed-from-prison.html|title=Breaking News: Sholom Rubashkin Has Been Freed From Prison|date=20 December 2017|access-date=3 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604234751/https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/1431003/breaking-news-sholom-rubashkin-has-been-freed-from-prison.html|archive-date=4 June 2018|url-status=live}} |
| June 6, 2018
| Western District of Tennessee | {{nobr|March 21}}, 1997 | Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (March 21, 1997) | Conspiracy to possess cocaine, attempted possession of cocaine, money laundering | Johnson was convicted in 1996 for her involvement in a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization and sentenced to life imprisonment.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alice-johnson-embracing-newfound-freedom-after-two-decades-behind-bars/ |title=Alice Johnson embracing newfound freedom after two decades behind bars |first=Adriana |last=Diaz |website=CBS News |date=June 7, 2018 |access-date=February 21, 2020 |archive-date=March 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312134001/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alice-johnson-embracing-newfound-freedom-after-two-decades-behind-bars/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7964949/the_tennessean_nashville_tn_2231997/ |title=Memphis drug dealer gets life in prison |author= |agency=Associated Press |date=February 23, 1997 |newspaper=The Tennessean |access-date=February 21, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=December 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222162428/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7964949/the_tennessean_nashville_tn_2231997/ |url-status=live }} Trump commuted Johnson's sentence following a meeting with Kim Kardashian; the commutation of the sentence caused Johnson's release from prison after more than 21 years.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/us/politics/trump-alice-johnson-sentence-commuted-kim-kardashian-west.html |title=Trump Offers Clemency to Imprisoned Woman After Being Lobbied by Kim Kardashian West |last=Baker |first=Peter |date=June 6, 2018 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 6, 2018 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180606190600/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/us/politics/trump-alice-johnson-sentence-commuted-kim-kardashian-west.html |archive-date=June 6, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/alice-marie-johnson-commuted-sentence/index.html |title=Trump commutes sentence of Alice Marie Johnson |last1=Diamond |first1=Jeremy |date=June 6, 2018 |work=CNN |access-date=June 6, 2018 |last2=Collins |first2=Kaitlan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180606203113/https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/alice-marie-johnson-commuted-sentence/index.html |archive-date=June 6, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-has-commuted-the-life-sentence-of-alice-marie-johnson-a-woman-whose-case-was-championed-by-kim-kardashian/2018/06/06/ce5bbf20-69a7-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html|title=Trump has commuted the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman whose case was championed by Kim Kardashian|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=2018-06-06|language=en|access-date=2018-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616055543/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-has-commuted-the-life-sentence-of-alice-marie-johnson-a-woman-whose-case-was-championed-by-kim-kardashian/2018/06/06/ce5bbf20-69a7-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html|archive-date=2018-06-16|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/donald-trump-alice-johnson-commutes-life-sentence-kim-kardashian-west/|title=Trump commutes life sentence for drug offender backed by Kim Kardashian West|work=Chicago Sun Times|date=2018-06-06|language=en|access-date=2018-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613221808/https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/donald-trump-alice-johnson-commutes-life-sentence-kim-kardashian-west/|archive-date=2018-06-13|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/trump-commutes-sentence-of-63-year-old-championed-by-kardashian|title=Trump Commutes Sentence of Drug Offender Championed by Kardashian|work=Bloomberg|date=2018-06-06|language=en|access-date=2018-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141434/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/trump-commutes-sentence-of-63-year-old-championed-by-kardashian|archive-date=2018-06-12|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390995-trump-pardons-alice-johnson-report/|title=Trump grants clemency to woman after Kim Kardashian pressed her case|work=The Hill|date=2018-06-06|language=en|access-date=2018-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143552/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390995-trump-pardons-alice-johnson-report|archive-date=2018-06-12|url-status=live}} |
| rowspan="2" | July 10, 2018
| rowspan="2" | District of Oregon | rowspan="2" | October 30, 2012 | rowspan="2" | 12 months and one day's imprisonment; 3 years' supervised release; amended to 60 months' imprisonment on October 7, 2015 (Steven); 3 months' imprisonment; 3 years' supervised release; amended to 60 months' imprisonment on October 7, 2015 (Dwight) | rowspan="2" | Use of fire to damage and destroy property of the United States (one count for Dwight, two counts for Steven) | rowspan="2" | In addition to the full pardon on the same day, Trump commuted the Hammonds' arson prison sentences to time served,{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/us/politics/trump-pardon-hammond-oregon.html |title=Trump Pardons Oregon Ranchers Whose Case Inspired Wildlife Refuge Takeover |last1=Sullivan |first1=Eileen |date=2018-07-10 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-11-19 |last2=Turkewitz |first2=Julie |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205184724/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/us/politics/trump-pardon-hammond-oregon.html |archive-date=2019-12-05 |url-status=live }} and ordered their immediate release.{{Cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oregon-standoff-trump-idUSKBN1K11RF |title=Oregon ranchers who sparked standoff home after pardon |date=2018-07-11 |work=Reuters |access-date=2019-11-19 |language=en |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215204219/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oregon-standoff-trump-idUSKBN1K11RF |url-status=live }} |
| {{Ublist|Steven Dwight Hammond}} |
| July 29, 2019
| Ronen Nahmani | Southern District of Florida | October 9, 2015 | 240 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and controlled substance analogues | Nahmani, an Israel-born Florida resident, was convicted in 2015 of conspiracy to distribute synthetic drugs acquired from China, and was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.[https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-pardons-israel-born-man-jailed-for-drug-offenses/ Trump pardons Israel-born man jailed for drug offenses] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112013822/https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-pardons-israel-born-man-jailed-for-drug-offenses/ |date=November 12, 2020 }}, Times of Israel (July 30, 2019).Benjy Singer, [https://www.jpost.com/international/trump-releases-israeli-drug-smuggler-on-childrens-moving-request-597149 Trump pardons Israeli drug smuggler on children's request] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805094637/https://www.jpost.com/international/trump-releases-israeli-drug-smuggler-on-childrens-moving-request-597149 |date=August 5, 2020 }}, Jerusalem Post (July 30, 2019). Hakeem Jeffries, Mark Meadows, and Alan Dershowitz supported Nahmani's clemency request. In commuting Nahmani, the Trump White House cited his lack of a previous criminal history, his five young children, and the terminal illness of his wife.Niraj Chokshi & Heather Murphy, [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/us/trump-pardons.html Trump Grants Clemency to 7 Men in Cases Dating Back Decades] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203032724/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/us/trump-pardons.html |date=February 3, 2021 }}, New York Times (July 29, 2019). |
| July 29, 2019
| Theodore E. (Ted) Suhl | Eastern District of Arkansas | October 27, 2016 | 84 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $200,000 fine | Aiding and abetting honest services wire fraud (two counts); aiding and abetting bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds; aiding and abetting Travel Act | Suhl formerly operated faith-based behavioral healthcare treatment centers for juveniles in Arkansas, including a residential center called Lord's Ranch (later renamed Trinity Behavioral Health) and several outpatient centers.Lindsey Millar, [https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2019/07/29/trump-commutes-ted-suhls-sentence Trump commutes Ted Suhl's sentence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101084814/https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2019/07/29/trump-commutes-ted-suhls-sentence |date=November 1, 2020 }}, Arkansas Times (July 29, 2019). He was convicted in 2016 on four counts of bribery in connection with a scheme from 2007 to 2011 to increase Medicaid payments to his company through payments made a state Arkansas Department of Human Services official (an ex-state legislator) via an intermediary. Both the official and the intermediary were also prosecuted and sentenced to federal prison. In a statement, the White House said that Trump's decision to commute the sentence was influenced by support from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and former U.S. attorney Bud Cummins. |
| February 18, 2020
| Northern District of Illinois | December 7, 2011 | Fourteen years in prison; two years' supervised release; $20,000 fine | wire fraud (10 counts); conspiracy/attempted extortion (four counts); corrupt solicitation of funds; conspiracy to corruptly solicit funds (two counts); making false statements | Blagojevich, a Democrat, was a former governor of Illinois and a contestant on Trump's reality TV show, The Celebrity Apprentice. Convicted of attempting to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, plus extortion by withholding state funds being directed towards a children's hospital and a race track.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/06/27/blagojevich-convicted/ |title=Blagojevich convicted: 'I, frankly, am stunned,' former governor says after jury convicts him on 17 counts |access-date=December 23, 2020 |date=June 27, 2011 |work=The Chicago Tribune |location=Chicago, Illinois |last1=Secter |first1=Bob |first2=Jeff |last2=Coen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930131407/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-27/news/ct-met-blagojevich-verdict-06-20110627_1_political-corruption-crime-spree-abraham-lincoln-roll-jury-convicts |archive-date=September 30, 2012 |url-status=live |language=en }}{{cbignore}}{{cite news |last1=Liptak |first1=Kevin |last2=Collins |first2=Kaitlan |author2-link=Kaitlan Collins |title=Trump commutes Blagojevich's sentence and grants clemency to 10 others |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/politics/donald-trump-rod-blagojevich-commutation-sentence/index.html |access-date=August 30, 2024 |work=CNN |publisher=Warner Bros. Discovery |date=February 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220004105/https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/politics/donald-trump-rod-blagojevich-commutation-sentence/index.html |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |location=Washington, DC |language=en |url-status=live}} The Illinois House impeached him for abuse of power and corruption. In two separate and unanimous votes of the Illinois Senate, he was removed from office and prohibited from ever holding public office in the state of Illinois again.{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blagojevich-impeachment-removal,0,5791846.story |newspaper=The Chicago Tribune |date=January 30, 2009 |title=Impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Has Been Removed From Office |first1=Ray |last1=Long |first2=Rick |last2=Pearson |access-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-date=January 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130145200/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blagojevich-impeachment-removal%2C0%2C5791846.story |url-status=live }} See also: Rod Blagojevich corruption charges. |
| February 18, 2020
| Judith Negron | Southern District of Florida | December 8, 2011 | 35 years' imprisonment (as amended); three years' supervised release; and $87,533,863.46 restitution | Conspiracy to commit health care fraud; health care fraud (two counts); conspiracy to defraud the United States and to receive and pay health care kickbacks; conspiracy to commit money laundering; money laundering (16 counts); structuring to avoid reporting requirements (three counts) | Negron, of Hialeah, Florida, age 49 at the time of the commutation, was convicted for her role in a major Medicare fraud scheme. The commutation released her from prison after serving eight years of her 35-year sentence and relieved her from her obligation to pay the remainder of $87 million in restitution. |
| February 18, 2020
| Crystal Munoz | January 24, 2008 | 15 years, 8 months' imprisonment; 5 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1,000 or more kilograms of marijuana | |
| February 18, 2020
| Tynice Nichole Hall | July 28, 2006 | 20 years, 8 months' imprisonment; 5 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute, possess with intent to distribute, and manufacture more than 50 grams of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine base (crack cocaine) and aiding and abetting; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and aiding and abetting; possession of cocaine with intent to manufacture cocaine base and aiding and abetting; receipt of firearms by a person under felony indictment and aiding and abetting; possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes and aiding and abetting | Hall, of Lubbock, Texas, was convicted on various drug charges and served almost 14 years before being granted clemency. The commutation of Hall's sentence was urged by Alice Marie Johnson.{{cite news|author=Samantha Jarpe|url=https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/lubbock-woman-granted-clemency-by-president-donald-trump/|title=Lubbock woman granted clemency by President Donald Trump|publisher=KAMC|date=February 19, 2020|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120075516/https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/lubbock-woman-granted-clemency-by-president-donald-trump/|url-status=live}} |
| July 10, 2020
| February 20, 2020 | 40 months' imprisonment; 24 months' supervised release conditioned upon performance of 250 hours' community service; $20,000 fine | Making false statements to Congress (five counts) | Stone is a friend and adviser of Trump, who was a member of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. In November 2019, Stone was convicted by a jury on all seven charges that he faced, in relation to his actions during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. The sentencing judge stated that Stone had been "prosecuted for covering up for the president"—Trump himself. In June 2020, around a month before the commutation, Trump had declared that Stone "can sleep well at night!" At the time of the commutation, Stone had been scheduled to report to federal prison around a week later.{{cite news |last1=Breuninger |first1=Kevin |last2=Mangan |first2=Dan |title=Trump ally Roger Stone found guilty of lying to Congress, witness tampering |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/trump-friend-roger-stone-found-guilty-of-lying-to-congress.html |access-date=July 11, 2020 |work=CNBC |date=November 15, 2019 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215020043/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/trump-friend-roger-stone-found-guilty-of-lying-to-congress.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/roger-stone-sentenced-three-years-trump-wikileaks-coverup.html|title=Roger Stone Sentenced to More than Three Years for "Covering Up" for Trump|website=Slate|first1=Jeremy|last1=Stahl|date=February 20, 2020|access-date=July 11, 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Gregorian |first1=Dareh |last2=Bennett |first2=Geoff |last3=Williams |first3=Pete |title=Trump commutes Roger Stone's prison sentence after he was convicted of covering up for the president |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-commutes-roger-stone-s-prison-sentence-after-he-was-n1138981 |access-date=July 11, 2020 |work=NBC News |date=July 11, 2020 |archive-date=July 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711002451/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-commutes-roger-stone-s-prison-sentence-after-he-was-n1138981 |url-status=live }} |
| October 21, 2020
| Lenora Logan | December 30, 1999 | 324 months' imprisonment (amended); 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base ("crack") | Commutation urged by Alice Marie Johnson.{{Cite news |last1=Madhani |first1=Aamer |last2=Freking |first2=Kevin |date=October 21, 2020 |title=Trump grants clemency to five backed by ally Alice Johnson |work=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-crime-c5ec1ca3460de8a64ea7bc3c6b85fade |access-date=November 10, 2020 |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101000510/https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-crime-c5ec1ca3460de8a64ea7bc3c6b85fade |url-status=live }} |
| October 21, 2020
| Rashella Reed | Southern District of Georgia | November 6, 2013 | 14 years' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $8 million restitution | Wire fraud and money laundering | Commutation urged by Alice Marie Johnson. |
| October 21, 2020
| Charles Tanner | Northern District of Indiana | May 26, 2009 | 30 years' imprisonment; ten years' supervised release; $1,000 fine | Conspiracy to possess cocaine, attempted possession of cocaine | Commutation urged by Alice Marie Johnson. |
| October 21, 2020
| John Bolen | Southern District of Florida | March 5, 2007 | Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to import, attempted importation of, and possession of cocaine | Commutation urged by Alice Marie Johnson. |
| October 21, 2020
| Curtis McDonald | Western District of Tennessee | February 28, 1997 | Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess cocaine, attempted possession of cocaine, money laundering | Commutation urged by Alice Marie Johnson: McDonald was a co-conspirator of Johnson's. |
| December 22, 2020
| November 7, 2018 | 10 years' imprisonment; $1,014,718.51 in restitution; three years of supervised release | Mail fraud, money laundering, violations of federal election law | Stockman, a former Republican congressman from Texas, had been convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison for misusing $1.25 million in donations from political donors by spending the money on personal expenses rather than charity, as he had pledged. The commutation released Stockman from prison after two years.Shannon Najmabadi, [https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/22/donald-trump-commute-prison-steve-stockman-texas-congressman/ Trump commutes remaining prison term of former Texas GOP congressman Steve Stockman, who was convicted of misusing charitable funds] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121052747/https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/22/donald-trump-commute-prison-steve-stockman-texas-congressman/ |date=January 21, 2021 }}, Texas Tribune (December 22, 2020). |
| December 22, 2020
| Crystal Munoz | January 24, 2008 | 15 years, 8 months' imprisonment; 5 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1,000 or more kilograms of marijuana | Commutation of supervised release, after earlier commutation of prison sentence in February 2020. |
| December 22, 2020
| Judith Negron | Southern District of Florida | December 8, 2011 | 35 years' imprisonment (as amended); three years' supervised release; and $87,533,863.46 restitution | Conspiracy to commit health care fraud; health care fraud (two counts); conspiracy to defraud the United States and to receive and pay health care kickbacks; conspiracy to commit money laundering; money laundering (16 counts); structuring to avoid reporting requirements (three counts) | Commutation of supervised release, after earlier commutation of prison sentence in February 2020. |
| December 22, 2020
| Tynice Nichole Hall | July 28, 2006 | 20 years, 8 months' imprisonment; 5 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute, possess with intent to distribute, and manufacture more than 50 grams of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine base (crack cocaine) and aiding and abetting; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and aiding and abetting; possession of cocaine with intent to manufacture cocaine base and aiding and abetting; receipt of firearms by a person under felony indictment and aiding and abetting; possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes and aiding and abetting | Commutation of supervised release, after earlier commutation of prison sentence in February 2020. |
| December 22, 2020
| Philip Esformes |September 12, 2019 |240 months' imprisonment; three years supervised release; $5,530,207 restitution |Conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay and receive health care kickbacks; receipt of kickbacks in connection with a federal health care program (two counts); payment of kickbacks in connection with a federal health care program (four counts); conspiracy to commit money laundering; money laundering (six counts); conspiracy to commit federal program bribery; conspiracy to commit federal program bribery and honest services wire fraud; obstruction of justice | Esformes ran a network of nursing homes in Chicago that he used to perpetrate a massive Medicaid fraud scheme involving about $1.3 billion in fraudulent claims. Esformes used the proceeds of the scheme for luxury goods and private jet travel. The Aleph Institute, a group that was influential in Trump's clemencymaking, lobbied for his commutation; the organization received $65,000 from Esformes's family from 2016 to 2019, during Esformes' prosecution and imprisonment.{{Cite news |last=Meisner |first=Jason |date=December 23, 2020 |title=Trump commutes 20-year sentence of former Chicago-area nursing home mogul convicted in massive Medicaid fraud |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-philip-esformes-fraud-trump-clemency-commutation-20201223-tfn7rveawzdhjmhee6hx7eoccm-story.html |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223223431/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-philip-esformes-fraud-trump-clemency-commutation-20201223-tfn7rveawzdhjmhee6hx7eoccm-story.html |url-status=live }} |
| December 23, 2020
| Daniela Gozes-Wagner |March 6, 2019 |240 months' imprisonment; three years supervised release; $15,283,985 restitution |Conspiracy to commit health care fraud; conspiracy to commit money laundering | Gozes-Wagner took part in a health care fraud scheme. Her codefendants, who led the scheme, accepted a plea deal and were sentenced to between five and ten years in prison; Gozes-Wagner rejected a four-year plea offer and chose to go to trial. She was convicted and sentenced to 20 years. Gozes-Wagner's clemency request was supported by a group of former judges, federal prosecutors, law professors, and attorneys.Angela Morris, [https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2020/12/09/former-federal-judges-us-attorneys-plead-for-clemency-to-undo-convicts-topsy-turvy-result/ Former Federal Judges, US Attorneys Plead for Clemency to Undo Convict's 'Topsy-Turvy Result'], Texas Lawyer (December 9, 2020). |
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| Mark Shapiro | rowspan="2" |Southern District of New York | rowspan="2" |October 25, 2010 | rowspan="2" |85 years imprisonment | rowspan="2" |Substantive and conspiratorial counts of securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud | rowspan="2" | Shapiro and Stitsky defrauded $23 million from 250 investors. |
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| January 13, 2021
| Fred Davis Clark Jr. | Southern District of Florida | February 22, 2016 | 480 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $179,076,941.89 restitution | Bank fraud (three counts); false statement in connection with federally insured loan (three counts); obstruction of official proceeding | Clark, of Orlando, Florida, masterminded a $300 million Ponzi scheme targeting residents of Clearwater and other Florida cities as part of a vacation rental scam. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2016.Tracey McManus, [https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/01/19/trump-commutes-40-year-sentence-of-clearwater-ponzi-scheme-operator/ Trump commutes 40-year sentence of Clearwater Ponzi scheme operator] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124160408/https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/01/19/trump-commutes-40-year-sentence-of-clearwater-ponzi-scheme-operator/ |date=January 24, 2021 }}, Tampa Bay Times (January 19, 2021). Trump's commutation immediately released Clark from prison, but left intact his five years of supervised released and obligation to pay $179 million in restitution. The Tampa Bay Times editorial board criticized Trump's commutation of Clark's sentence, describing it as an "outrageous injustice reeks of favoritism and privilege and confirms how easily a president can abuse clemency power."[https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/01/21/florida-ponzi-schemer-fred-davis-clark-jr-deserved-to-stay-in-prison-editorial/ Editorial: Florida Ponzi schemer Fred Davis Clark Jr. deserved to stay in prison] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121201318/https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/01/21/florida-ponzi-schemer-fred-davis-clark-jr-deserved-to-stay-in-prison-editorial/ |date=January 21, 2021 }}, Tampa Bay Times (January 21, 2021). |
| January 13, 2021
| Jon Michael Harder | November 17, 2015 | 180 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release (as amended by order of December 2, 2015) | Mail fraud; engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity | Harder, the founder and CEO of Sunwest Management (once the U.S. third-largest assisted living chain, operating more than 300 homes at its peak), was convicted of defrauding investors and money laundering after the company collapsed. He was sentenced to 12 years; Trump commuted the prison term.Jeff Manning, [https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/01/trump-commutes-15-year-sentence-of-convicted-oregon-fraudster-jon-harder-sunwests-founder.html Trump commutes 15-year sentence of convicted Oregon fraudster Jon Harder, Sunwest's founder] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125185736/https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/01/trump-commutes-15-year-sentence-of-convicted-oregon-fraudster-jon-harder-sunwests-founder.html |date=January 25, 2021 }}, The Oregonian/OregonLive (January 21, 2021). |
| January 13, 2021
| Chris Young | Middle District of Tennessee | September 12, 2014 | 168 months' imprisonment (as amended); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and 280 grams or more of crack cocaine; attempted possession of a detectable amount of cocaine with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school; felon in possession of a firearm; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime | Young, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was initially sentenced to life imprisonment under a federal three-strikes law, for a third drug-related conviction (his prior two convictions were when he was 18 and 19 years old). After sentencing judge Kevin H. Sharp retired from the bench, he advocated clemency for Young.[https://www.newschannel5.com/news/chris-young-reunites-with-former-judge-advocate Chris Young reunites with former judge, advocate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123185155/https://www.newschannel5.com/news/chris-young-reunites-with-former-judge-advocate |date=January 23, 2021 }}, WTVF (January 21, 2021). |
| January 13, 2021
| Southern District of New York | July 27, 2017 | 60 months' imprisonment; one year of supervised release; $10,000,000 fine; $8,890,969.33 restitution | Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; securities fraud (four counts); wire fraud (four counts) | Walters, a wealthy sports gambler, was sentenced to five years in prison for his participation in an insider trading scheme.Maggie Haberman, Kenneth P. Vogel, Eric Lipton & Michael S. Schmidt, [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/trump-pardons.html With Hours Left in Office, Trump Grants Clemency to Bannon and Other Allies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120060117/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/trump-pardons.html |date=January 20, 2021 }}, New York Times (January 20, 2021). |
| January 13, 2021
| Adrianne Davis Miller | Southern District of Alabama | April 23, 2015 | 180 months' imprisonment; 5 years' imprisonment (as amended September 2019) | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession of a list I chemical with knowledge and reasonable cause to believe it would be used to manufacture a controlled substance | |
| January 13, 2021
| Eastern District of Michigan | October 10, 2013 | 336 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $4,799,826.61 restitution | Racketeering conspiracy; interference with commerce by extortion (five counts); bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds; mail fraud (10 counts); wire fraud (two counts); subscribing false tax return (six counts) | Kilpatrick, a Democrat who was mayor of Detroit from 2002 until his resignation in 2008, was tried and convicted on 24 corruption counts for using his office to enrich himself and associates, and was sentenced to 28 years. Kilpatrick denied responsibility, but all his appeals were rejected. Trump's commutation reduced his sentence to time served, releasing him from prison immediately (20 years early) rather than in 2037. Along with the sentence given to Jimmy Dimora, Kilpatrick's sentence was a record length for a public corruption scandal. U.S. Attorney Matthew J. Schneider strongly criticized Trump's grant of a commutation to Kilpatrick, calling him a "disgraced ... notorious and unrepentant criminal" who "earned every day he served in federal prison for the horrible crimes he committed against the people of Detroit." The current mayor of Detroit, Mike Duggan, supported Kilpatrick's commutation, calling him "a person of great talent who still has much to contribute." Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Kilpatrick's crimes were "reprehensible" but that his sentence was harsh. The commutation left intact Kilpatrick's obligation to pay $195,000 owed to the IRS and $1.5 million in restitution to the City of Detroit. Prior to receiving clemency, Kilpatrick had praised Trump, writing letters saying that his tenure had been an "unprecedented success."*[https://www.crainsdetroit.com/government/former-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick-released-prison Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick released from prison] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124030227/https://www.crainsdetroit.com/government/former-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick-released-prison |date=January 24, 2021 }}, Crain's Detroit Business (January 20, 2021).
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| January 19, 2021
| Michael H. Ashley | Eastern District of New York | July 18, 2019 | 36 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $49,307,759.84 restitution | Bank fraud | Ashley was chief business strategist at Melville, New York-based Lend America, a large mortgage lender that imploded in 2009, resulting in $49 million in federally guaranteed loans (backed by Ginnie Mae) from being unfunded. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dorothy Eisenberg wrote in 2013 that Ashley "diverted over $50 million" of money from Lend America's parent company's "for his own benefit, and/or for the benefit of his affiliated entities or relatives"; Ashley pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 2011 and was sentenced in 2019. Trump's commutation eliminated Ashley's prison term (which he had been ordered to serve starting in March 2021). However, the commutation left intact the court's order to serve five years of supervised release, pay $49 million in restitution, and forfeit $800,000.Maura McDermott, [https://www.newsday.com/business/lend-america-michael-ashley-sentence-commuted-president-trump-1.50125386 Former Lend America exec Michael Ashley gets sentence commuted by Trump] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121140732/https://www.newsday.com/business/lend-america-michael-ashley-sentence-commuted-president-trump-1.50125386 |date=January 21, 2021 }}, Newsday (January 20, 2021). |
| January 19, 2021
| David Morris Barren | Eastern District of Maryland | August 11, 2010 | 360 months' imprisonment (as amended by executive clemency on January 19, 2017); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine; conspiracy to structure financial transactions; concealment money laundering (31 counts); structuring (two counts); money laundering-avoid reporting requirements (six counts); money laundering over $10,000 (eight counts); promotion money laundering (two counts) | |
| January 19, 2021
| Kristina Kay Bohnenkamp | Eastern District of Northern District of Iowa | January 5, 2011 | 262 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of March 24, 2015); 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to manufacture 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine after having been convicted of a felony drug offense | |
| January 19, 2021
| Jonathan Braun | Eastern District of New York | May 28, 2019 | 10 years' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $100,000 fine | Conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States; money laundering | Braun, of Staten Island, served one year of a 10-year sentence for running a large-scale drug trafficking organization. Court records indicated that Braun had a history of violence and threats. After he was in 2009, he pleaded guilty, but, while on bail awaiting sentencing, he fled to Canada and then to Israel where court records indicate he continued to lead the drug ring. Braun was arrested after he returned to the United States in the fall of 2009. He was sentenced in 2019 and was not ordered to prison until January 2020. The commutation of his sentence was granted by Trump outside the usual DOJ process.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/trump-pardons-jonathan-braun.html|title=Trump's Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence|first1=Michael S.|last1=Schmidt|first2=Maggie|last2=Haberman|first3=William K.|last3=Rashbaum|date=January 23, 2021|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124095823/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/trump-pardons-jonathan-braun.html|url-status=live}} In 2023, the New York Times reported that the commutation had come about at the urging of Charles Kushner, father of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and that it had ended a criminal investigation into predatory lending targeting small New York businesses.{{Cite news |first1=Michael S. |last1=Schmidt |author-link=Michael S. Schmidt |first2=Maggie |last2=Haberman |author-link2=Maggie Haberman |first3=Jonathan |last3=Swan |last4=Feuer |first4=Alan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/us/politics/trump-pardon-braun.html |title=A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners |work=The New York Times |date=November 26, 2023 |access-date=September 8, 2024}} In the civil suit brought against Braun by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York State Attorney General for his involvement in a predatory loan operation that targeted and threatened small business owners, Braun was fined $20 million in February 2024.{{cite news |first1=Michael S. |last1=Schmidt |author-link1=Michael S. Schmidt |first2=Maggie |last2=Haberman |author-link2=Maggie Haberman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/politics/jonathan-braun-assault.html |title=Trump Clemency Recipient Accused of Assaulting Wife and Father-in-Law |access-date=August 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=August 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822011959/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/politics/jonathan-braun-assault.html |archive-date=August 22, 2024 |url-status=live}} On August 20, 2024, Braun was charged for assaulting his wife on two occasions and punching his 75-year-old father-in law who was trying to protect his daughter on a third occasion.{{cite news |last=Mangan |first=Dan |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/trump-clemency-recipient-jonathan-braun-arrest-assault.html |title=New York drug dealer whose prison sentence Trump commuted arrested on assault charges |work=CNBC |date=August 22, 2024 |access-date=September 8, 2024}} |
| January 19, 2021
| Ann Marie Butler | July 22, 2010 | 360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, 50 grams or more of cocaine base, and a quantity of 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Matthew Antione Canady | April 10, 2009 | 262 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of December 22, 2014); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute at least 50 grams of cocaine base | |
| January 19, 2021
| Craig Cesal | District of Northern District of Georgia | September 26, 2003 | 360 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of August 22, 2016) | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana | |
| January 19, 2021
| Jeff Cheney | February 21, 2008 | 216 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture following a felony drug conviction | |
| January 19, 2021
| Mario Claiborne | Northern District of Illinois | May 23, 1994 | Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine; engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; use of the telephone to facilitate felony drug distribution (six counts); possession with intent to distribute cocaine (six counts); distribution of cocaine (four counts); conducting financial transactions with money from drug transactions (two counts) | |
| January 19, 2021
| Corvain T. Cooper | Western District of North Carolina | July 28, 2014 | Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana; conspiracy to commit money laundering; structuring currency transactions and aiding and abetting the same | Cooper, of Los Angeles, age 41 at the time of the commutation, was sentenced to life for conspiracy to distribute marijuana under a three-strikes law.[https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/01/22/los-angeles-corvain-cooper-clemency-nonviolent-marijuana-crimes/ 'Better Than The Lottery': Corvain Cooper, LA Man Facing Life In Prison For Nonviolent Marijuana Crimes, Granted Clemency] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123081300/https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/01/22/los-angeles-corvain-cooper-clemency-nonviolent-marijuana-crimes/ |date=January 23, 2021 }}, CBS Los Angeles (January 22, 2021). |
| January 19, 2021
| April D. Coots | Western District of Missouri | August 11, 2009 | 240 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine | |
| January 19, 2021
| James Brian Cruz | June 26, 2001 | 480 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $25,000 fine | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Marquis Dargon | May 8, 2008 | 210 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five hundred 500 grams or more of cocaine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Northern District of New York | July 1, 1993 | Life imprisonment plus five years' imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute cocaine; distribute cocaine (four counts); murder of DEA agent; murder of DEA agent in furtherance of drug conspiracy; use of firearm during drug trafficking crime | Davidson was a drug kingpin who was sentenced to life for ordering a robbery in 1990 that led to the murder of Wallie Howard, a Syracuse, New York police officer working as an undercover investigator. The commutation released Davison, age 52 at the time of the commutation, from prison after serving 29 years of a life sentence. Davidson never accepted responsibility for the crime and maintained for years that he was wrongfully convicted. Trump's commutation of Davidson's sentence was criticized by the region's congressman John Katko, Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, and the federal prosecutor who handled the trial.*Jacob Pucci, [https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2021/01/mastermind-of-syracuse-cop-killing-who-had-sentence-reduced-by-trump-released-from-prison.html 'Mastermind' of Syracuse cop killing who had sentence reduced by Trump released from prison] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122001022/https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2021/01/mastermind-of-syracuse-cop-killing-who-had-sentence-reduced-by-trump-released-from-prison.html |date=January 22, 2021 }}, The Post-Standard (January 21, 2021).
In May 2023, he was sentenced to three months in prison for misdemeanor domestic battery.{{cite news |last1=Schmidt |first1=Michael S. |author-link=Michael S. Schmidt |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie |author-link2=Maggie Haberman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/politics/trump-clemency-jaime-davidson.html |title=A Trump Clemency Recipient Is Convicted of Domestic Violence |work=The New York Times |date=September 3, 2024 |access-date=September 8, 2024}} |
| January 19, 2021
| John Estin Davis | Middle District of Tennessee | July 9, 2020 | 42 months' imprisonment; one year's supervised release; $20,000 fine (as amended) | Conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute and conspiracy to defraud the United States; receipt of kickbacks in connection with a federal healthcare program | |
| January 19, 2021
| Anthony M. DeJohn | Northern District of New York | July 26, 2010 | Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of marijuana; possession of firearms by a convicted felon | |
| January 19, 2021
| Kenneth Charles Fragoso | June 6, 1991 | Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of five kilograms of cocaine | Fragoso, age 66 at the time of the commitation, sold {{convert|10|kg}} of cocaine in 1990 to a DEA informant; he was sentenced to life imprisonment because it was his third offense.Taylor Pettaway, [https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Here-are-the-four-people-convicted-in-Texas-who-15885433.php Here are the five Texas convicts who received pardons or clemency from Trump] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123055935/https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Here-are-the-four-people-convicted-in-Texas-who-15885433.php |date=January 23, 2021 }}, San Antonio Express-News (January 20, 2021). |
| January 19, 2021
| Robert Francis | Eastern District of Missouri | October 3, 2002 | Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Darrell Frazier | (1) Eastern District of Tennessee; (2) Northern District of Georgia | (1) January 22, 1990; (2) March 30, 2004 | (1) Life imprisonment; (2) 18 months' imprisonment (consecutive); six years' supervised release | (1) Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride; (2) Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin | |
| January 19, 2021
| Rodney Nakia Gibson | July 28, 2009 | 211 months' imprisonment (as amended by orders of November 15, 2015 and January 9, 2017); five years' supervised release | Money laundering; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine; possession of a firearm during and in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime | |
| January 19, 2021
| Jennings Gilbert | Eastern District of Kentucky | September 12, 2006 | 240 months imprisonment; 10 years supervised release | Conspiracy to manufacture over 1000 marijuana plants possession with intent to distribute marijuana | |
| January 19, 2021
| Javier Gonzales | December 19, 2005 | 240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine (two counts); use of a communication facility to facilitate the distribution of methamphetamine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Luis Gonzalez | December 6, 1993 | Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Possession with intent to distribute cocaine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Michael Harris (Harry O) | Central District of California | November 26, 1990 | 235 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Possession with intent to distribute less than 500 grams of cocaine hydrochloride; using/carrying a firearm during or in relation to a drug trafficking crime | Harris was a co-founder of the Death Row Records record label. Snoop Dogg had been one of the advocates of clemency for Harris.{{Cite magazine |last=Blistein |first=Jon |date=2021-01-20 |title=Snoop Dogg Thanks Trump for Pardoning Death Row Records Co-Founder |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/snoop-doggtrump-death-row-records-michael-harris-pardon-1116872/ |access-date=2024-12-01 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}} |
| January 19, 2021
| Dwayne L. Harrison | Southern District of Mississippi | September 11, 2006 | 262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Possession with intent to distribute less than 500 grams of cocaine hydrochloride; using/carrying a firearm during or in relation to a drug trafficking crime | |
| January 19, 2021
| Raymond Hersman | Southern District of West Virginia | December 31, 2013 | 240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Lou Hobbs | August 4, 1997 | Life imprisonment, five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of cocaine base; Unlawful possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, attempted unlawful possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base | |
| January 19, 2021
| Reginald Dinez Johnson | Eastern District of Missouri | March 3, 2005 | 262 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of April 22, 2015); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and PCP | |
| January 19, 2021
| Bill K. Kapri (Kodak Black) | Southern District of Florida | November 13, 2019 | 46 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release | Making a false statement in connection with the acquisition or attempted acquisition of a firearm (two counts) | |
| January 19, 2021
| Cassandra Anne Kasowski | Southern District of North Dakota | March 20, 2014 | 186 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of September 19, 2018); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance (methamphetamine) | |
| January 19, 2021
| Traie Tavares Kelly | Southern District of South Carolina | January 7, 2009 | 240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and 5 kilograms or more of cocaine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Kyle Kimoto | Southern District of Illinois | September 5, 2008 | 350 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $34,915,321.30 restitution | Conspiracy; mail fraud in connection with telemarketing; wire fraud in connection with telemarketing (12 counts) | Kimoto had served 12 years of his 29-year sentence, convicted of leading a telemarketing scheme involving deceptive credit card offers. His commutation was recommended by Jewel and Ivanka Trump.{{cite web |url= https://www.fox5vegas.com/election_hq/jewel-ivanka-trump-play-instrumental-role-in-release-of-las-vegas-father-from-federal-prison/article_1c79a704-5bb2-11eb-8f69-2fbc53b9753f.html |publisher= Fox 5 Vegas |title= Jewel, Ivanka Trump play instrumental role in release of Las Vegas father from federal prison |date= January 20, 2021 |access-date= February 12, 2021 |archive-date= January 29, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210129132211/https://www.fox5vegas.com/election_hq/jewel-ivanka-trump-play-instrumental-role-in-release-of-las-vegas-father-from-federal-prison/article_1c79a704-5bb2-11eb-8f69-2fbc53b9753f.html |url-status= live }} |
| January 19, 2021
| Sharon King | Southern District of New York | December 9, 2008 | 180 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of October 24, 2012); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and a quantity of marijuana; distribution and possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine; distribution and possession with intent to distribute a quantity of marijuana; using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime | |
| January 19, 2021
| Noah Kleinman | Central District of California | December 8, 2014 | 211 months' imprisonment, five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana (two counts); distribution of marijuana (two counts); maintaining a drug-involved premises; conspiracy to launder money | |
| January 19, 2021
| John Richard Knock | Northern District of Florida | January 30, 2001 | Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $1,411,476,800 fine | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana; conspiracy to import marijuana; conspiracy to launder monetary instruments | |
| January 19, 2021
| Mary Anne Locke | June 30, 2009 | 234 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine (mixture) within 1,000 feet of a protected location; conspiracy to commit money laundering | |
| January 19, 2021
| Tena M. Logan | Central District of Illinois | June 28, 2013 | 168 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of August 3, 2015); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine; possession of 500 grams or more of methamphetamine with intent to distribute | |
| January 19, 2021
| Way Quoe Long | Eastern District of California | March 16, 1998 | 600 months' imprisonment; 60 months' imprisonment | Continuing criminal enterprise; conspiracy to manufacture, distribute and to possess with intent to distribute marijuana; manufacturing of marijuana and aiding and abetting (two counts); using and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking offense; possession of a firearm silencer without a serial number; possession of a machine gun (two counts) | |
| January 19, 2021
| Hector Madrigal Sr. | July 20, 2007 | 20 years' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a quantity in excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana | |
| January 19, 2021
| Chalana C. McFarland | Northern District of Georgia | August 24, 2005 | 360 months' imprisonment; 5 years' supervised release; $11,417,352.44 restitution | Conspiracy to commit bank fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers, fraudulent transfer of identification, fraud against the Department of Housing and Urban Development, money laundering, engagement in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, and obstruction of justice; bank fraud (30 counts); wire fraud (60 counts); money laundering (73 counts); obstruction of justice; perjury (4 counts) | McFarland, an Atlanta real estate closing attorney who was the ringleader of a mortgage fraud scheme that lasted from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The loans obtained by fraud totaled almost $20 million. She had been convicted of 169 counts in 2005. The commutation released her from prison after serving 15 years of a 30-year sentence; her request for clemency was supported by the CAN-DO Foundation.Jonathan Raymond, [https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/chalana-mcfarland-sentence-commuted-trump/85-7968eb45-b57d-49cf-bb4c-1e93e6a8ed94 Atlanta area woman's 2005 sentence for mortgage fraud scheme commuted by Trump], WXIA-TV (January 20, 2021). |
| January 19, 2021
| Salomon E. Melgen{{anchor|Salomon Melgen}} | Southern District of Florida | February 22, 2018 | 204 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $52,997,442 restitution (as amended April 5, 2018) | Health care fraud (36 counts); false, fictitious and fraudulent claims (19 counts); false statements relating to health care (11 counts) | Trump commuted the remainder of the prison sentence of Melgen, a prominent South Florida ophthalmologist who had been sentenced to 17 years for a $73 million scheme to defraud the government of Medicare payments from 2008 and 2013; Melgen's practice grew "by giving elderly patients unnecessary eye injections and laser blasts on their retinas that some compared to torture."{{cite news |first=Wayne K. |last=Roustan |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-ne-dr-melgen-pardoned-20210120-cisbssuwgrh2dkbjvb2caefi2i-story.html |title=Disgraced South Florida eye doctor receives presidential pardon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122042911/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-ne-dr-melgen-pardoned-20210120-cisbssuwgrh2dkbjvb2caefi2i-story.html |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |work=South Florida Sun Sentinel |url-status=live |date=January 20, 2021 }} Melgen's case was high-profile in part because of his association with Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ); Menendez was tried (but not convicted) on charges of accepting gifts from Melgen. |
| January 19, 2021
| Jawad Amir Musa | Southern District of New York | April 23, 1993 | Life imprisonment, five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin | Musa was arrested in a 1990 DEA "reverse sting" operation in which Musa offered $20,000 for a heroin transaction. He received a mandatory life sentence in 1991; because Musa had two relevant prior convictions, the sentencing court had no discretion. Musa's clemency petition was supported by Kenneth Wainstein, who prosecuted the case, and John Gleeson, a retired federal judge who represented Musa. Current prosecutors assigned to the matter opposed Musa's request for executive clemency. Trump's commutation released Musa after 30 years in federal prison.{{cite news |first=Justin |last=Fenton |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-trump-clemency-baltimore-musa-20210120-qdxekjkszbbpnnz52h4ygk2kau-story.html |url-status=live |title=Baltimore man serving life on a drug charge has his sentenced commuted by Trump after 30 years behind bars |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122022351/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-trump-clemency-baltimore-musa-20210120-qdxekjkszbbpnnz52h4ygk2kau-story.html |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |newspaper=Baltimore Sun |date=January 20, 2021 }} |
| January 19, 2021
| Sydney Melissa Navarro | December 23, 2013 | 275 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of May 10, 2016); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance | |
| January 19, 2021
| Issac Nelson | Southern District of South Carolina | June 10, 2010 | 240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of five kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of crack cocaine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Lerna Lea Paulson | September 4, 2014 | 204 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a controlled substance | |
| January 19, 2021
| Michael Pelletier | January 22, 2008 | Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $83,847.55 restitution | Conspiracy to import marijuana; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana; money laundering (four counts); conspiracy to engage in money laundering; conspiracy to engage in money laundering structuring; social security fraud (two counts); conspiracy to engage in social security fraud | Pelletier of Saint David, Maine, age 64 at the time of the commutation, ran a cross-border marijuana smuggling operation in Maine from 2003 to 2006. He was granted clemency that released him from prison after serving 13 years of a life sentence, and had previously petitioned for compassionate release. Pelletier has been paralyzed from the waist down after a farming accident at age 11, and uses a wheelchair. His petition for clemency was supported by the CAN-DO Foundation.Judy Harrison, [https://bangordailynews.com/2021/01/20/news/aroostook/trump-grants-clemency-to-aroostook-county-man-serving-life-sentence-for-marijuana-smuggling/ Trump grants clemency to Aroostook County man serving life sentence for marijuana smuggling] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123185523/https://bangordailynews.com/2021/01/20/news/aroostook/trump-grants-clemency-to-aroostook-county-man-serving-life-sentence-for-marijuana-smuggling/ |date=January 23, 2021 }}, Bangor Daily News (January 20, 2021). |
| January 19, 2021
| Tara Michelle Perry | February 18, 2014 | 195 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of July 5, 2016); four years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance | |
| January 19, 2021
| Dwayne Phelps | Southern District of Indiana | November 5, 2009 | 240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine (mixture); possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (mixture) | |
| January 19, 2021
| Jodi Lynn Richter | February 7, 2011 | 179 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of February 29, 2016); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a controlled substance | |
| January 19, 2021
| LaVonne Arlene Roach | March 2, 1998 | 30 years' imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to distribute controlled substance | Roach, of Rapid City, South Dakota, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, age 56 at the time of the commutation, served 23 years of her 30-year sentence for methamphetamine dealing. Prior to the commutation, she had been scheduled for release in July 2023 due to good-time credit. Governor Kristi Noem and the prosecutor in her case supported the commutation, which remitted the rest of her prison sentence but kept the five-year term of supervised release intact.Arielle Zionts, [https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/rapid-city-mother-enjoying-freedom-after-receiving-commutation-from-trump/article_05e12086-50a6-5ded-86ec-a86c3f3d69a2.html Rapid City mother enjoying freedom after receiving commutation from Trump], Rapid City Journal (March 13, 2021). |
| January 19, 2021
| Mary Marcella Roberts | September 6, 2011 | 228 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a controlled substance | |
| January 19, 2021
| James R. Romans | February 22, 2013 | 360 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of July 24, 2017); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana | |
| January 19, 2021
| Ferrell Damon Scott | April 2, 2009 | Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $10,000 fine | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana; possession with intent to distribute in excess of 100 kilograms of marijuana (three counts) | |
| January 19, 2021
| Adriana Shayota | Northern District of California | June 20, 2017 | 26 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $144,868 fine | Conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods; conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to introduce misbranded food into interstate commerce | |
| January 19, 2021
| Luis Fernando Sicard | Southern District of Florida | September 29, 2000 | 353 months' imprisonment (as amended by order of December 10, 2015); five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine; possession of a firearm during and in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime | |
| January 19, 2021
| Brian Wayne Simmons | May 28, 2013 | 180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and/or possess with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants and/or 100 or more kilograms of marijuana; manufacture, distribute, and/or possess with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants and/or 100 or more kilograms of marijuana (two counts) | |
| January 19, 2021
| Derrick Bruce Smith | Western District of Missouri | August 23, 2002 | 340 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Distribution of cocaine resulting in death; possession with intent to distribute cocaine | |
| January 19, 2021
| Monstsho Eugene Vernon | July 23, 2001 | 482 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $10,930 restitution | Attempted armed bank robbery; armed bank robbery (six counts); use and carry of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence (two counts) | Vernon was granted clemency after serving 19 years of a 40-year prison sentence for a string of bank robberies in Greenville County, South Carolina, in 2001.Jennifer Martin, [https://www.wspa.com/news/top-stories/pres-trump-commutes-sentence-of-convicted-greenville-bank-robber/ Pres. Trump commutes sentence of convicted Greenville bank robber] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075109/https://www.wspa.com/news/top-stories/pres-trump-commutes-sentence-of-convicted-greenville-bank-robber/ |date=January 23, 2021 }}, WSPA (January 20, 2020). |
| January 19, 2021
| Blanca Maribel Virgen | August 14, 2009 | 360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $50,000 fine | Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine; maintaining drug-involved premises | |
| January 19, 2021
| Jerry Donnell Walden | Southern District of New York | November 16, 1998 | 480 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiracy to violate federal narcotics laws | |
| January 19, 2021
| Eliyahu (Eli) Weinstein | (1) February 25, 2014; (2) December 15, 2014 | (1) 264 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $215,350,459 restitution; $215,350,459 forfeiture; (2) 135 months' imprisonment (all but 24 months concurrent); three years' supervised release; $6,176,750 restitution; $6,176,150 forfeiture | (1) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud; monetary transactions from specified lawful activity; (2) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud; committing wire fraud while on pretrial release; transacting in criminal proceeds | Weinstein, age 45 at the time of the commutation, was a con man and former used car salesman from Lakewood, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to running a $200 million Ponzi scheme involving phony real estate investments and—while awaiting trial on those charges—running a $6.7 million scam claiming special access to the Facebook, Inc. initial public offering. Sentenced to 24 years in prison, he was represented in his request for clemency by Alan Dershowitz, who was also Trump's personal lawyer. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, who as an Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuted Weinstein, called Trump's grant of clemency "one huckster commuting the sentence of another."Ted Sherman, [https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/01/this-nj-con-man-duped-investors-out-of-millions-feds-say-trump-just-released-him-from-prison.html This N.J. con man duped investors out of millions, feds say. Trump just released him from prison.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125122016/https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/01/this-nj-con-man-duped-investors-out-of-millions-feds-say-trump-just-released-him-from-prison.html |date=January 25, 2021 }}, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (January 20, 2021). Weinstein hired Nick Muzin, a lobbyist and former aide to Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott, to lobby Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows for clemency. Weinstein's commutation had been supported by New Jersey Democrat-turned-Republican, Congressman Jeff Van Drew.[https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/new-jersey-man-commuted-by-trump-charged-in-new-fraud-scheme-00107134 New Jersey man commuted by Trump charged in new fraud scheme], Politico, Dustin Racioppi, July 19, 2023. Retrieved July 20, 2023. On July 19, 2023, with four others who had helped him to hide his assets to avoid paying restitution, Weinstein was rearrested for conducting an estimated $35 million Ponzi scheme.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/convicted-con-man-was-pardoned-trump-charged-fraud-rcna95172 Convicted con man who was pardoned by Trump is again charged with fraud], NBC News, Corky Siemaszko, July 19, 2023. Retrieved July 20, 2023. |
| January 19, 2021
| February 15, 2000 | 835 years' imprisonment (as amended by order of July 16, 2009); three years' supervised release; $123,399,910 fine; $125,016,656 restitution; and a January 9, 2009 order of $57,213,591.46 forfeiture (as amended on June 7, 2011, and May 5, 2012) | Racketeering; racketeering conspiracy (27 counts); interstate transportation of stolen property (23 counts); money laundering (29 counts); false statements (two counts) | Weiss, a former New York businessman, orchestrated a series of financial frauds that led to the collapse of the National Heritage Life Insurance Company. While out on bail, Weiss fled the country and became a fugitive for more than a year in Austria. He was sentenced to 835 years in 2000. Weiss's nephew advocated his commutation, and Weiss hired lobbyist Brett Tolman to persuade Trump to grant it. Prominent backers of Weiss's clemency bid included Edwin Meese, Seth Waxman, and Alan Dershowitz.David Yaffe-Bellany, [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-20/trump-commutes-835-year-white-collar-sentence-for-sholam-weiss Fraudster Returns Home After Trump Commutes 835-Year Term] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125130330/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-20/trump-commutes-835-year-white-collar-sentence-for-sholam-weiss |date=January 25, 2021 }}, Bloomberg News (January 21, 2021). |
| January 19, 2021
| Tom Leroy Whitehurst | Eastern District of Missouri | October 10, 1996 | Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release | Conspiring to manufacture in excess of 100 grams of methamphetamine; use of fire and explosive materials to destroy property used in interstate commerce and in activity affecting interstate commerce; destruction of property to prevent seizure; felon in possession of firearms (two counts); possession of ephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine |
| January 19, 2021
| Caroline Yeats | March 3, 2014 | 240 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release | Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance | |
= Miscellaneous =
In 2019, former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher was demoted following a July 2, 2019, court martial based on accusations that he had committed a war crime. Trump later reversed his demotion.
See also
- Article Two of the United States Constitution
- Federal pardons in the United States
- List of people granted executive clemency in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama
- List of people pardoned by Bill Clinton
- List of people pardoned by George W. Bush
- List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States
References
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External links
- [https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-statistics#DonaldJTrump Clemency Statistics by President], U.S. Office of the Pardon Attorney
- [https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021 Pardons Granted by President Donald J. Trump (2017-2021)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505201533/https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021 |date=May 5, 2021 }}, U.S. Office of the Pardon Attorney
- [https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021 Commutations granted by President Donald J. Trump (2017 - 2021)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504190831/https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021 |date=May 4, 2021 }}, U.S. Office of the Pardon Attorney
- [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/ Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120171920/https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/ |date=January 20, 2021 }}, White House Press Secretary, January 20, 2021
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