Donald Trump issued a new wave of pardons and commutations to 26 people on Wednesday including ones for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, longtime friend Roger Stone and Jared Kushner’s father Charles Kushner.
Both Stone and Manafort were indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller, they went to trial and were convicted by juries of multiple crimes.
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Manafort spent close to two years in prison for bank and tax fraud, illegal foreign lobbying and witness tampering conspiracies before being released because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Roger Stone’s sentence for obstruction of Congress and threatening a witness was commuted by Trump earlier this year.
Four individuals charged in the Mueller probe have now received pardons. On Tuesday Trump pardoned former campaign aide George Papadopoulos and Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan. Both men pleaded guilty to lying to investigators during the Russia investigation and served time in prison.
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Then US attorney Chris Christie prosecuted Charles Kushner for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions in 2005. He eventually pleaded guilty to 16 counts of tax evasion, one count of retaliating against a federal witness — his brother-in-law — and another count of lying to the Federal Election Commission CNN reports.
Trump also pardoned Margaret Duncan, the wife of California GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter, one day after he pardoned her husband.
