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Steve Bannon was an advisor to Trump.

In 2020 he was indicted for using donations to his nonprofit organization for his personal use. The organization was advertised as supporting the building of a border wall between the United States and Mexico.

His case had not yet gone to trial.

The White House statement described the charges against Bannon as "related to fraud stemming from his involvement in a political project." The statement also described Bannon as "an important leader in the conservative movement... known for his political acumen."

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Conrad M. Black was convicted in 2007 of fraud for stealing $60 million from his company, Hollinger International. He also was convicted of obstruction of justice.

Black is a long-time associate of President Trump.

For more, read the New York Times story.

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Rod Blagojevich was convicted of several corruption charges including...

He had served 8 years of his 14-year sentence before being pardoned by Trump.

Blagojevich is a former contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice - a reality show that was hosted by Trump.

For more, read the Vox analysis.

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One of President Trump's top fund-raisers in 2016. Elliott Broidy pleaded guilty in 2020 to conspiring to violate foreign lobbying laws as part of a covert campaign to influence the Trump administration on behalf of Chinese and Malaysian interests.

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For more on the crimes committed by Broidy, read the Washington Post story.

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John Richard Bubala pleaded guilty in 1990 to illegally transferring federal government automotive equipment.

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For more, read the Washington Post story.

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Fred Davis Clark, Jr. was convicted in 2014 of bank fraud, making false statements to a financial institution, and obstructing an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The charges stemmed from a $300 million Ponzi scheme.

He was sentenced to 40 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $300 million dollars. He was released the day of Trump's commutation.

Clark's company - Cay Clubs Resorts and Marinas - took money from investors to develop vacation rentals. However, the properties never were developed. Clark used the money to attract additional investors and for his personal use.

He and his partners made the properties appear to increase in value by selling them back and forth to each other - using employees and family members as straw buyers.

The White House statement described Clark's crime as "a first-time, non-violent offense".

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In 2018 former Rep. Chris Collins pleaded guilty to insider trading and lying to investigators. He was sentenced to more than two years in prison.

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In 2014, Dinesh D'Souza pleaded guilty to to making illegal campaign contributions. He was sentenced to eight months in a "community confinement center" and given a $30,000 fine.

For more, read the PolitiFact analysis.

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Edward DeBartolo was owner of the San Francisco 49ters National Football League team.

In 1998 DeBartolo pleaded guilty in a bribery case in which he had given $400,000 to then Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards to help him obtain a state casino license. He received two years probation and had to pay a $1 million fine.

He has been a large supporter of Trump and the Republican party.

For more, read the Casino.org story.

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Ariel Friedler pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2014 for for attempting to break into the computers of his company's competitors. He served two months in prison.

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Former Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty in 2018 to spending more than a quarter of a million dollars in campaign funds for personal use.

He was sentenced to 11 months in prison.

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Margaret Hunter is the wife of former Rep. Duncan Hunter.

She was sentenced to 8 months of home confinement for her role in the same crimes committed by Duncan Hunter.

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Zay Jeffries was a World War 2 scientist convicted in 1948 of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.

This is the second time Jeffries has received presidential help in this case. He was indicted in 1941, but President Franklin Roosevelt agreed to defer his prosecution until after the war due to his value to the war effort.

Jeffries was fined for his conviction, but did not serve prison time. He died in 1965.

For more, read The Hill story.

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Alice Marie Johnson was convicted in 1996 of being part of a cocaine distribution ring and of money laundering. Though her crimes were nonviolent, she was sentenced to life in prison because of mandatory sentencing laws in effect at the time.

She previously had applied to be freed under President Barack Obama's 2014 Clemency Initiative. Obama denied her request during his final days as president.

Trump commuted her sentence. Though not a pardon, she will be released from prison.

Update 2020-Aug-28: Trump updated Johnson's clemency to a full pardon.

For more, read the New York Times story.
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Bernard Kerik is a longtime associate of Rudy Giuliani.

Kerik pleaded guilty in 2009 to tax fraud and making false statements to the government while being vetted for federal position. He served three years in prison.

For more, read the New York Times story.

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Charles Kushner is the father of Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.

In 2004 he pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns and campaign finance reports.

He also pleaded guilty to witness tampering. Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his sister's husband and sent her a videotape of the encounter in an attempt to intimidate her into not testifying.

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie - who prosecuted the case as a federal attorney - called it one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes he had prosecuted.

Kushner served just over a year in federal prison from 2005 to 2006.

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Paul Manafort - who for a time managed Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign - was convicted of tax and bank fraud in 2018.

The charges were among those brought as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 presidential election.

They stemmed from Manafort's work for pro-Russian interests in Ukraine.

He was sentenced to almost four years in prison.

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Michael Milken pleaded guilty to charges related to racketeering, insider trading, and fraud.

His acts precipitated the failure of several savings and loan institutions - costing taxpayers an estimated $500 billion.

He spent almost 2 years in prison and was fined $600 million. He also was banned from the securities industry.

Differences of perspective

In 1990, the Washington Post wrote that Milken was guilty of six of the most serious criminal charges ever filed against a business executive of his stature.

"Not half a dozen technical violations of obscure regulations, but ... six crimes that any juror or video viewer can understand: cheating his customers by overcharging them on bond deals, secretly rigging securities prices, helping his friends cheat on their taxes, mail fraud, securities fraud, conspiracy," the editorial stated.

The White House press release of Milken's pardon states...

"Milken was charged in an indictment alleging that some of his innovative financing mechanisms were in fact criminal schemes.  The charges filed against Mr. Milken were truly novel.  In fact, one of the lead prosecutors later admitted that Mr. Milken had been charged with numerous technical offenses and regulatory violations that had never before been charged as crimes."

For more, read the Talking Points Memo story.

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Judith Negron was convicted in 2011 for orchestrating a scheme that defrauded Medicare out of $205 million over eight years.

She was sentenced to 35 years in prison and ordered to pay $87 million in restitution to Medicare. She had served 8 years of that sentence before being pardoned by Trump. There is no evidence that she has paid any of the restitution.

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While Pat Nolan was minority leader in the California State Assembly, he was videotaped accepting a bribe from an FBI agent in the Shrimpscam sting operation.

He pleaded guilty in 1994 to racketeering and served more than 2 years in prison.

For more, read the Los Angeles Times story.

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Paul Pogue pleaded guilty in 2010 to underpaying his taxes. He was sentenced to three years in prison, and was ordered to pay about three-quarters of a million dollars in restitution and a fine.

Pogue's son Ben had donated approximately $100,000 to help Trump's re-election campaign.

For more, read the New York Times story.

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Rashella Reed was a Georgia teacher convicted in 2013 for her role in an $8 million fraud against the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs.

The scheme involved setting up fake grocery stores which were used as a front to buy more than $8 million in benefits from the programs. At the time of her conviction, it was the largest prosecution of its kind in Georgia.

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For more, read The Telegraph story.

A former Arizona representative, Renzi was sentenced in 2013 to three years in jail in association with a bribery scheme involving an Arizona land swap deal.

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Sholom Rubashkin was convicted in 2009 of financial fraud in relation to his running of a large meatpacking plant. He also was charged with hiring hundreds of undocumented immigrants and violating child labor laws (he was acquitted of the child labor charges). He was sentenced to 27 years in prison.

President Trump commuted Rubashkin's sentence. He had served 8 years.

For more, read the Washington Post story.

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David Safavian was Chief of Staff of the General Services Administration (GSA) under the George W. Bush administration.

He was convicted in 2008 of obstruction of justice and lying to a GSA ethics officer, internal investigators, and an FBI agent in the criminal investigation of Jack Abramoff. He was sentenced to a year in prison.

For more, read the Talking Points Memo story.

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In 2016, Adriana Shayota was convicted for manufacturing and selling millions of counterfeit versions of the energy drink 5-Hour Energy.

The counterfeit products were made in unsanitary conditions by untrained day workers using unregulated ingredients.

While no deaths were directly attributed to the counterfeit products, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigated several deaths involving energy drinks during the same time period.

She was sentenced to just over 2 years in prison. When Trump granted her clemency she had served approximately half of that sentence.

Among those who wrote letters in support of Shayota were a former San Diego police captain who later would plead guilty to illegal gun sales and John McCann - a Chula Vista City Council member who said he was asked to write by Andres Camberos - Shayota's brother.

Camberos later would contribute to McCann's 2022 successful mayoral campaign.

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Angela Stanton - an author and TV personality - was pardoned for her role in a stolen vehicle ring involving fraud, embezzlement, and theft . In 2007 she served a 6-month house arrest for the crime.

For more, listen to Stanton tell her story.

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Suhl was convicted defrauding Medicaid out of millions of dollars, and bribing a state official to enable the scheme.

For more, read the News in FiVe story.

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Michael Anthony Tedesco was convicted in 1990 of drug trafficking and fraud.

He was pardoned in 2017 by President Barack Obama, but the fraud conviction remained on his record. That was due to a clerical error, according to the White House statement of the pardon.

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For more, read the Washington Post story.