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American lawyer; former Pardon Attorney at the US Department of Justice
A set of high-profile clemency actions wiped away court-ordered financial obligations for multiple pardoned defendants and at least one corporation; reporting and tracking by former DOJ pardon attorne...
President Trump has issued thousands of clemency actions this year, including a blanket pardon for roughly 1,500 people charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, mass pardons for “alternate electors” and ...
The ’s post‑pardons personnel shakeup—firing and sidelining career prosecutors, installing politically aligned officials in clemency roles, and drawing pardoned defendants into internal meetings—immed...
Available reporting shows many of President Trump’s 2025 pardons involved people with political, personal, or financial ties to him — including donors, campaign allies and lawyers who worked on electi...
President Trump’s second-term clemency spree has included a mass January 20, 2025, pardon for people prosecuted over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack (about 1,500 by White House count) and later targeted par...
The Office of the Pardon Attorney (OPA) is the Department of Justice office that vets clemency petitions and makes recommendations to the President using longstanding administrative criteria—factors s...
President Trump’s 2025 clemency actions have been tied by multiple analysts and Democratic House investigators to roughly $1.3 billion in fines, forfeitures and court-ordered restitution that, they sa...
Multiple public reports and congressional materials document allegations, whistleblower statements and high-profile commentary suggesting a “pardon-for-pay” or quid‑pro‑quo theory around some of Presi...
Allegations and investigations tying former U.S. presidents or their allies to “selling” favors, appointments or pardons have surfaced repeatedly in recent years, most prominently Rod Blagojevich’s ca...