Corrupt Republican Pardons of Criminals

Pardoned tech CEO Changpeng Zhao who pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering, drug trafficking and CSAM on his platform while secretly backing the Trump family’s crypto empire after a PR blitz by his company

Pardoned a man who was convicted of being among the first people to break through police barricades and illegally entering the US Capitol on 1/6 who months later was charged with a felony for threatening to assassinate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

Communicated disgraced former US Rep. George's prison sentence mere months into his 7-year prison sentence for fraud

Pardoned a man who was convicted of assaulting a capitol police officer on 1/6 who went on to get sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to assassinate FBI agents and other law enforcement officials and attack their buildings with car bombs and other explosive devices

Pardoned convicted felon Paul Walczak and spared him from serving any of his 18-month prison sentence or having to pay a penny of his nearly $4.4 million fine mere days after his mother attended a $1 million per person fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago

Pardoned convicted fraudsters Todd and Julie Chrisley who illegally obtained over $30 million in improper loans and failed to pay any taxes on it mere months into their multi-year sentences

Pardoned former MAGA sheriff Scott Jenkins who was convicted of accepting over $75k in bribes the day before he was set to begin serving his 10-year prison sentence

Pardoned a man who was still facing charges over his alleged role in the 1/6 insurrection who at the time of his pardon was under indictment for being caught with multiple firearms and ammunition near President Obama’s D.C. residence and for making a hoax bomb threat

Pardoned a man who had yet to serve a single day of his 54-month federal prison sentence for assaulting US Capitol police officers and a press photographer on 1/6 while he was also awaiting sentencing for reckless homicide and aggravated DUI for intentionally driving the wrong way on an Illinois highway in what he testified was a failed suicide attempt

Pardoned convicted felon and former Nevada lawmaker Michele Fiore who was found guilty of stealing over $70k from a police charity meant for an officer killed in the line of duty before she ever had to face any type of judgement for her crimes

Quietly commuted the sentence of convicted felon Jason Galanis who still had over 10 years left in his prison sentence for his role in a massive fraud against Native American tribes as an apparent reward for his politicized testimony against Hunter Biden to House Republicans

Quietly pardoned disgraced former state Sen. and MAGA diehard Brian Kelsey mere days into his 21-month sentence for campaign finance fraud

Pardoned a man who was convicted of assaulting police officers with bear spray and a metal whip on 1/6 just months into his 74-month prison sentence and later went on the run in an attempt to evade a warrant in Texas for soliciting a minor back in 2016

Pardoned a man who had yet to be sentenced for felony destruction of property he caused during the 1/6 insurrection and who had recently been sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old

Pardoned Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio who organized and directed members of the Proud Boys militia while they stormed and ransacked the US Capitol on 1/6

Pardoned Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes who was convicted for leading a mob of far-right Oath Keepers as they ransacked the US Capitol and tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power

Commuted convicted fraudster Phillip Esformes' sentence after he had only served less than two years of his twenty-year sentence for a massive healthcare fraud following a public relations campaign his well-connected family waged with the Trump White House and after released criminally threatened his wife and another family member with verbal threats and by breaking glassware set on a nearby table

Pardoned a convicted drug smuggler who had connections with his son-in-law Jared Kushner's family after only serving two and a half years of his ten-year sentence and who was later arrested for assaulting his wife and father-in-law

Pardoned his former top-adviser Steve Bannon before his case went to trial for stealing one million dollars from donors to an online charity fundraiser that he promised would go towards building a wall on the southern border

Pardoned Republican mayor of Mettawa, IL and brother of famed NFL player Brian Urlacher who was charged with being a leader of a multi-million dollar illegal offshore sports gambling ring led by the Chicago mob after personally meeting with the former player at the White House and before the case against his brother had concluded

Pardoned former Republican Rep. Rick Renzi who served time in prison for corruption giving credence to a public relations campaign he led that baselessly accused the DOJ of wrongfully imprisoning him

Pardoned former Republican Rep. Robin Hayes who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his role in a $1.5 million bribery scheme following a request from Republican Senator Thom Tillis

Pardoned notorious former Republican Rep. Duke Cunningham who served an eight-year prison sentence for raking in $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors

Honored a request from Senator Rand Paul to pardon two aides who worked on his father Ron's 2012 Presidential campaign and were convicted for bribing a state senator $73,000 to change his vote in the Iowa caucuses

Rewarded his 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort with a pardon after he served less than two years of his 7-year sentence for breaking his plea deal by lying to investigators about information potentially damaging to Trump

Pardoned his senior adviser Roger Stone as a reward for him refusing to testify against Trump after publicly bashing the US Attorneys who prosecuted the criminal obstruction and witness tampering case against him

Rewarded Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan with a pardon after he refused to cooperate with the Mueller investigation and served a 30-day sentence for lying to the FBI about his work with top Trump adviser Rick Gates and an individual tied to Russian intelligence services

Pardoned the wife of disgraced Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter who pleaded guilty to stealing campaign contributions for personal use

Pardoned his son-in-law's father Charles Kushner who served 14 months in prison in the early 2000's for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering 14 years after he concluded his sentence which benefits his namesake company by making it much easier for them to secure financing for major projects

Pardoned former Rep. and early 2016 campaign supporter Duncan Hunter who admitted to stealing campaign contributions for personal use days before he was set to begin his 11-month prison sentence

Pardoned former Rep. Chris Collins as a reward for being the first member of Congress to endorse his 2016 campaign resulting in him only serving 10 weeks of a 26-month prison sentence for insider trading

Commuted former Republican Rep. Steve Stockman's ten-year prison sentence after serving only two years for stealing $1.25 million meant for a charity but using it for personal expenses and to fund his campaign instead

Pardoned his former campaign aide George Papadopoulos who lied to the FBI about his many interactions with top Russian intelligence officials who claimed they had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton that could help the Trump campaign and used the occasion to lash out at Special Counsel Robert Mueller for prosecuting him in the first place

Rewarded former national security adviser Michael Flynn with a pardon after he stopped cooperating with investigators following his guilty plea for lying to the FBI over his communications with top Russian officials before he was sentenced and without consulting with the Justice Department first

Pardoned a Republican House candidate and QAnon conspiracy theorist who was a major Trump backer and previously served two years in prison for her role in an organized auto theft ring back in 2004

Pardoned former New York police commissioner and vocal Trump supporter Bernard Kerik who illegally received over $250,000 from a company with suspected connections to organized crime four years after his prison sentence concluded after lobbying from his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani

Rewarded business executive Paul Pogue who served three years' probation for failing to pay over $400k in taxes with a pardon months after his son and daughter-in-law donated $238,541 to Trump's reelection campaign

Pardoned personal friend Conrad Black who published a fawning book with a title calling him a "President Like No Other" and previously served time for scheming to siphon off millions of dollars from the newspaper company he was CEO of

Pardoned his late mentor's grandson who was convicted of felony drug trafficking and tried to keep it secret in a breach of precedent in which governors usually publicly identify the names of people they pardoned

Rewarded Arizona real estate developer Mike Ingram who donated $10,000 to a Trump super PAC a week prior by pardoning two men he advocated for: convicted arsonists Dwight and Steven Hammond who intentionally set a fire on their property to destroy evidence of their illegal poaching that got out of control and spread to federal land

Pardoned radical rightwing filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza six years after his conviction of making illegal campaign contributions after Senator Ted Cruz personally lobbied for it

Pardoned Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio after he was convicted of contempt of court for racially profiling and illegally detaining people of Latino descent before he would be sentenced for his crime

Pardoned a man who killed an 8-month-old boy in an alcohol-fueled crash who belongs to a politically connected family that donates a lot of money to Republicans

Pardoned the brother of famed NFL quarterback Brett Favre who killed someone else in a drunk driving crash decades ago and had long since completed his sentence which makes you wonder if the only reason he pardoned him is because he's close with Favre

Pardoned a man convicted of soliciting sexually explicit messages from an underage girl after having a private lunch with a close friend of his family