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Who has President Trump pardoned? Here's the list of allies, supporters and inspirational figures

WASHINGTON – Since taking office in 2017, President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 60 people. As he serves the final days of his term, that list is expected to grow.

Presidents have broad clemency powers granted by the Constitution. They can grant full pardons – full legal forgiveness for a crime – and commute, or shorten, prison sentences. Trump has commuted 21 sentences.

As of Dec. 3, Trump had granted pardoned or granted clemency to allies such as former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and campaign aide Roger Stone and high-profile figures, such as former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. His first pardon was to Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who was an early supporter of Trump's candidacy. Others involved people whose cases were taken up by activists who considered the sentences unduly harsh. And some had celebrities, such as Kim Kardashian West, lobbying on their behalf.

Here's a look at the pardons Trump has granted:

Roger Stone

Stone, a Republican operative, was convicted of lying to Congress to protect the president's campaign from an investigation into Russian election interference.

Trump had commuted Stone's sentence in July. He was sentenced to a 40-month sentence handed down in February of this year.

Paul Manafort

Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, was sentenced last year to more than seven years in prison in a pair of criminal cases that resulted from former Russia special counsel Robert Mueller's two-year investigation.

The cases in federal courts in Virginia and Washington, D.C. centered on Manafort's decade-long work as a lobbyist in Ukraine.

More: Trump pardons former campaign chairman Paul Manafort along with Charles Kushner, other allies

Manafort was sentenced to nearly four years in prison in Virginia, where he was convicted of defrauding banks and taxpayers out of millions of dollars he had amassed through illicit lobbying. He was sentenced to a little over three years in prison in Washington, D.C., where he pleaded guilty.

Charles Kushner

Kushner was convicted in 2005 of preparing false tax returns, witness retaliation, and making false statements to the FEC.

He pleaded guilty and served a 24-month sentence.

The witness he was accused of retaliating against was his brother-in-law, who was cooperating with federal officials with an investigation into Kushner. He arranged to have a prostitute seduce his brother-in-law in a motel room where video cameras were installed and sent the tapes to his sister.

The case was prosecuted by then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, a Trump-ally.

Charles Kushner is the father to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who also serves as a senior advisor to the president.

Stephanie Mohr

Mohr is a former Maryland police officer who served 10 years in prison in a police brutality case after her canine partner attacked a man suspected of burglary.

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Her case was controversial at the time and was the result of a Justice Department civil rights investigation into the Prince George's County Police Department, which had been facing allegations of police brutality.

Margaret Hunter

Hunter is the estranged wife of former Congressman Duncan Hunter, and pleaded guilty last year to one count of conspiracy to misuse campaign funds for personal expenses.

She was sentenced to three years’ probation. Her husband was also pardoned by Trump.

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Christopher Wade

Wade pleaded guilty to various cyber-crimes and served two years’ probation.

James Kassouf

Kassouf pled guilty in 1989 to one count of filing a false tax return.

The White House stated that since he was convicted, he has since worked with charitable organizations and been devoted to his church.

Mary McCarty

In 2009, McCarty, a former Palm Beach County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to one count of honest services fraud, and served nearly two years in prison.

Christopher II X, formerly Christopher Anthony Bryant

Bryant, a former drug addict, was convicted of several cocaine charges for two decades leading up to 1998, according to the White House.

Cesar Lozada

Lozada was charged in 2004 of conspiring to distribute marijuana and served 14 months in prison.

Joseph Martin Stephens

Stephens pleaded guilty in 2008 to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

According to a statement from the White House, this was sentencing was predicated from 1991, when he was 19, and he was prosecuted nearly 20 years later and served a sentence of 18 months in prison.

Andrew Barron Worden

Worden was convicted in 1998 on a wire fraud charge.

According to the White House, Worden "had just graduated from college and made mistakes in running an investment firm he founded" but "voluntarily stopped his wrongful conduct and began to repay his victims before any criminal charges were filed."

Robert Coughlin

Coughlin had pleaded guilty to a count of conflict of interest while working as a Department of Justice official.

He served as the former deputy chief of staff in the U.S. Department of Justice’s criminal division and pleaded guilty in 2008 for doing favors for former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team and its clients while accepting free meals and drinks and tickets to sporting events and concerts.

John Boultbee and Peter Atkinson

Boultbee and Atkinson served a year each in prison for mail fraud.

The two men were senior executives at Hollinger International and associates of media tycoon Conrad Black, who was a co-defendant in the case and was also convicted. Trump previously pardoned him.

Joseph Occhipinti

Occhipinti was convicted of conspiracy to violate civil rights under the color of law and making false statements, according to the White House.

Occhipinti was a former Federal immigration agent and imprisoned for conducting illegal searches and filing false reports against Hispanic store owners.

His 37-month-long sentence was commuted by President George H.W. Bush.

Rebekah Charleston

Charleston was a former sex trafficking victim who was arrested for tax evasion in 2006.

She now works as a consultant and advocate for victims. Her pardon was also supported by a law enforcement agent who arrested her.

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Rickey Kanter

Kanter, former CEO of Dr. Comfort, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison in 2011.

He later sued the Justice Department and the state of Wisconsin because federal and state laws prohibit felons from purchasing firearms. Kanter's claims were rejected by the court.

Topeka Sam

Sam served three years of a 130-month sentence in 2012 as a result of pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.

Sam founded a group to help incarcerated women transition back into society and helped the passage of the First Step Act that Trump signed into law in 2018.

James Batmasian

Batmasian pleaded guilty and went to federal prison in 2008 for failure to collect and remit payroll taxes in 2008.

William J. Plemons, Jr.

Plemons, Jr., was convicted of various financial crimes in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and served a sentence of 27 months in prison, according to the White House.

Russell Plaisance

Plaisance was given a posthumous pardon for a count of conspiracy to import cocaine in the 1980's, which the White House said stemmed from “one conversation in which he participated.”

Mark Siljander

Siljander, a former GOP congressman, pleaded guilty in 2010 to charges of obstruction of justice and failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

In 2012, Siljander was sentenced to a year in federal prison.

Gary Brugman

Brugman is a former U.S. Border Patrol agent and was sent to prison for nearly two years after violating the civil rights of a man who attempted to cross the U.S. border into Texas in 2001, and was convicted in 2002.

John Tate and Jesse Benton

Tate and Benton were convicted in 2016 of various public corruption charges for paying a former Iowa state senator to switch his endorsement to then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, during his 2012 presidential campaign, days before the first-in-the-nation nominating event.

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Tate and Benton each served six months of home confinement and two years’ probation.

George Papadopoulos

Papadopoulos is a former campaign aide who admitted lying to the FBI about conversations in which he was told that the Russian government had obtained “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. He used that connection to try to set up a meeting between then-candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

More: Trump pardons Papadopoulos and former Republican members of Congress in raft of clemency grants

Papadopoulos was the first former Trump aide to be sentenced in special counsel Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference.

Duncan Hunter

Hunter, a former GOP Congressman from Calilfornia, pleaded guilty to misusing campaign funds in 2019 and was sentenced to 11 months in prison.

He stole the campaign funds and spent the money on outings with friends and his daughter’s birthday party, among other things.

More: Ex-California Rep. Duncan Hunter gets 11 months in prison

Chris Collins

Former New York GOP Rep. Collins pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to commit securities fraud and making false statements to the FBI and is currently serving a 26-month sentence, the White House said.

Collins was the first member of Congress to endorse Trump to be president.

Alex van der Zwaan

Van der Zwaan is a Dutch lawyer who served a month of prison time in Mueller's investigation and was deported to the Netherlands in 2018. He was the first person convicted in the investigation.

He pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his work with two of Trump's former campaign aides.

More: Dutch lawyer deported after serving prison time in Mueller's Russia probe

Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard

The men, former government contractors at Blackwater Worldwide, were convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and wounded 17 others.

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Slatten, who was convicted of murder, had fired, “without provocation,” according to the Justice Department, and had been serving a sentence of life in prison.

Slough, Liberty and Heard also were convicted of manslaughter and firearms charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison. But a federal appeals court ruled in 2017 that they should be resentenced because their convictions included one count of committing a felony while armed with a military weapon. A federal judge cut their sentences in half last year.

Crystal Munoz

Munoz, who spent the last 12 years in prison after being convicted on marijuana charges, was granted clemency by Trump in February.

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Tynice Nichole Hall

Hall served nearly 14 years of an 18-year sentence for allowing her apartment to be used to distribute drugs before Trump granted her clemency earlier this year.

In a petition spelling out her case for clemency, Hall wrote that she was dating a man who was distributing drugs and, while not directly involved with his illegal activities, she reaped the financial benefits of the drug trade.

Alfonso Costa

Costa was convicted of health care fraud in 2007, and charged with padding bills for tens of thousands in dental work serviced.

He is close to Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson.

Alfred Lee Crum

Crum pleaded guilty in 1952 when he was 19 to helping his wife’s uncle illegally distill moonshine.

Crum, who is now 89, served three years of probation and paid a $250 fine.

Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean

Ramos and Compean, Border Patrol agents, were convicted of shooting and wounding an unarmed illegal immigrant in 2006. They then covered up the shooting.

President George W. Bush had issued commutations for both men during his final days.

Michael Flynn

Flynn, who served more than three weeks as Trump's top security adviser at the White House, pleaded guilty three years ago to lying about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was convicted of lying to the FBI.
President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was convicted of lying to the FBI.

Awaiting sentencing, he sought to withdraw his plea by claiming he was entrapped by federal investigators. That move was followed early this year by the Justice Department's decision to abandon the prosecution, prompting a federal judge's challenge.

Flynn was awaiting a ruling in the case by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan when Trump issued the pardon in November.

Alice Marie Johnson

Johnson was convicted in 1996 of five counts of drug trafficking and one count of money laundering and sentenced to life in prison – despite the fact that it was her first offense.

Alice Marie Johnson smiles during an interview at her lawyer's office in Memphis, Tenn.
Alice Marie Johnson smiles during an interview at her lawyer's office in Memphis, Tenn.

President Barack Obama denied her clemency request in 2017. A long list of officials – Congress members, the U.S. attorney and even the warden at her prison – asked the pardon attorney to reconsider.

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Kardashian West lobbied Trump on Johnson's behalf, and Trump commuted her life sentence in 2018. She was then pardoned by the president in August.

Jon Donyae Ponder

While serving a 63-month sentence for bank robbery, Ponder became a Christian and devoted himself to helping other prisoners. After his release, he founded Hope For Prisoners, a Las Vegas-based organization that helps ex-prisoners re-enter society. The group has partnered with the Las Vegas Police Department to help thousands of former inmates.

Jon Ponder, left,  and Former FBI special agent Richard Beasley stand with President Donald Trump during the Republican National Convention at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020.
Jon Ponder, left, and Former FBI special agent Richard Beasley stand with President Donald Trump during the Republican National Convention at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020.

The president called Ponder’s life “a beautiful testament to the power of redemption” when announcing his pardon in August.

Ponder also was pardoned by the state of Nevada.

Susan B. Anthony

Anthony, one of the leading figures in the movement to secure voting rights for women, was arrested for voting in Rochester, New York, in 1872, violating the laws that said only men could vote. She was convicted the following year.

Trump granted her posthumous pardon on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in August.

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Edward DeBartolo Jr.

DeBartolo, a former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, was fined $1 million as part of a gambling fraud case in Louisiana in the late 1990s. He was pardoned by Trump in February.

DeBartolo testified that he paid then Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards $400,000 in exchange for his help in securing a riverboat casino license. DeBartolo pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to report a felony.

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Bernard Kerik

Kerik, the former New York Police Department commissioner who was hailed alongside then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the response to the 9/11 attacks, was sentenced to four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to felony charges of tax fraud and lying to White House officials while being interviewed to head the Department of Homeland Security.

He served three years in federal prison before he was released in 2013, later becoming an advocate for prison reform, and a recurring advocate for Trump on Fox News. He was pardoned by the president in February.

The White House said in a statement that since Kerik's conviction, "he has focused on improving the lives of others, including as a passionate advocate for criminal justice and prisoner re-entry reform."

Paul Pogue

Pogue, the owner of a construction company near Dallas, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison in 2010 for filing a false federal tax return. Authorities said Pogue under-reported his income on his tax returns for three years. The fraudulent returns cost taxpayers a loss of $473,680, according to court records. Besides the prison sentence, Pogue was ordered to pay a $250,000 fine and more than $473,000 in restitution.

Pogue's family has made campaign contributions to Republicans, including Trump's re-election campaign. Pogue Construction is now run by Ben Pogue, Paul Pogue's son, who donated $85,000 last year to Trump Victory, the joint fundraising committee for the president’s reelection campaign and Republican National Committee. Ben Pogue also maxed out to the Trump presidential campaign, giving $5,600 in August 2019.

He was pardoned by the president in February.

Michael Milken

Milken, a rogue financier known as the "junk bond king," pleaded guilty in 1990 to several counts of securities and tax violations.

In the announcement of his pardon in February, the White House described Milken as "one of America's greatest financiers" and credited his work fighting prostate cancer.

David Safavian

Safavian, former chief of staff of the General Services Administration, was sentenced to a year in prison for lying about his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Safavian was convicted in 2009 for obstruction of justice and making false statements to authorities investigating Abramoff’s activities. Prosecutors said Safavian lied to conceal his efforts to help Abramoff in his dealings with the government.

According to testimony during his trial, Safavian assisted Abramoff in connection with the lobbyist’s attempts to acquire GSA-controlled properties, and Abramoff took him on a luxury golf trip to Scotland and London. Safavian made false statements to conceal that, around the time of the golf trip, he aided Abramoff with business before the agency, prosecutors said.

He was pardoned in February.

Ariel Friedler

Friedler, the founder and chief executive of an Arlington, Va.,-based software company, pleaded guilty in 2014 and served two months in prison for conspiring to hack into the computer systems of two competitors. Friedler’s company, Symplicity Corp., was a government contractor that provided student disciplinary records management services to colleges and universities.

According to court records, Friedler conspired with two other Symplicity employees between 2007 and 2011 to hack into the computer systems of two competing companies. Friedler and others decrypted account passwords of former customers. Fiedler was forced to sell the company as a result of his guilty plea.

He was pardoned by Trump in February of 2020.

Angela Stanton

Stanton is an author, reality TV star and prison-reform activist who served a six-month home confinement sentence for her part in a stolen car ring.

An avid Trump supporter and the goddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr.’s politically conservative niece Alveda King, she spoke at the 2018 Women for Trump Conference and frequently posts pro-Trump messages on her Twitter account.

Trump pardoned her in February.

Clint Lorance

Lorance, an Army 1st lieutenant, was convicted in 2013 of second-degree murder after ordering soldiers to open fire on three unarmed Afghan men, two of whom died. He was serving a 19-year sentence when he was pardoned in November 2019.

Mathew Golsteyn

Golsteyn was charged with executing a man in 2010 who was suspected of being a Taliban bombmaker who had been ordered to be released after an interrogation.

Golsteyn said he shot the man because he was certain his bomb-making would "continue to threaten American troops and their Afghan partners," the White House said.

In a 2018 tweet, Trump described Golsteyn as a "U.S. military hero." He was pardoned in November 2019.

Zay Jeffries

Jeffries was convicted of conspiracy to commit treason for anticompetitive conduct. A leading American scientist, he continued his work after he was indicted in 1941. His work helped the U.S. develop shells that could pierce German tanks. He also contributed to the Manhattan project. He received a posthumous pardon in October 2019.

Rodney M. Takumi

Takumi received a pardon in July of 2019 for a conviction over a 1987 arrest from working at an illegal gambling parlor.

Chalmer Lee Williams

Williams stole at least 20 firearms and 16 boxes of computers in 1995 with the help of partner Christopher Glacken from checked luggage at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. He was convicted of theft and the sale of the weapons. He was pardoned in July 2019.

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John Richard Bubala

Bubala, who pleaded guilty in 1990 to illegally transferring federal government automotive equipment to Milltown, Indiana, was praised in a White House statement for his reform when he was pardoned in July 2019.

"His primary aim was to help the town, and he sought neither compensation nor recognition for his actions," the statement said of Bubala, while also praising him for his volunteer work.

Roy Wayne McKeever

McKeever was convicted of using a telephone to distribute marijuana in 1989.

In July 2019, when McKeever was pardoned by Trump, the White House said: "He has spent the past 29 years of his life atoning for his offense through charitable works in his community."

Michael Anthony Tedesco

Tedesco was pardoned by Obama in 2017, but because of a clerical error, his pardon for a fraud conviction was not official until Trump corrected the issue in July 2019, according to the White House.

Conrad Moffat Black

Trump granted a pardon to Black, a former conservative newspaper mogul who spent 3½ years in jail on a 2007 fraud conviction that was ultimately reviewed by the Supreme Court. The White House described Black as an "entrepreneur and scholar" who "has made tremendous contributions to business."

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2011 file photo, Conrad Black arrives at the federal building in Chicago. President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Black, a former newspaper publisher who has written a flattering political biography of Trump. Black's media empire once included the Chicago Sun-Times and The Daily Telegraph of London. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) ORG XMIT: WX115

Black has also been an outspoken Trump supporter and wrote a book about the president the year before the pardon.

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Patrick James Nolan

Nolan, director of the American Conservative Union Foundation’s Center for Criminal Justice Reform, was pardoned by Trump in May 2019.

A former state lawmaker in California, Nolan was convicted of accepting illegal campaign contributions in 1994 and was sentenced to 33 months in prison.

Nolan was an instrumental voice supporting the bipartisan criminal justice legislation Trump signed into law in 2018.

Michael Chase Behenna

Trump pardoned Behenna, a former Army first lieutenant, who was convicted of killing an Iraqi prisoner, in May 2019.

Behenna was sentenced to 15 years in 2009 for killing Ali Mansur Mohamed, a suspected al Qaeda operative who was stripped naked for questioning before being shot.

Dwight and Steven Hammond

In July 2018, Trump pardoned father-and-son cattle ranchers serving prison time for arson, a case that helped inspire the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in 2016.

The two were convicted of starting two fires in 2001 and 2006 that damaged federal lands. The White House said the evidence against them was "conflicting" and the jury acquitted them on most of the charges.

The Hammonds were initially given sentences of three months to a year. Trump blamed the Obama administration for filing an "overzealous appeal" because the judge's sentence was too lenient under federal sentencing guidelines. That appeal sent the Hammonds back to prison.

Dinesh D'Souza

D'Souza, a prominent conservative filmmaker and pundit, pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance law in 2014. President Donald Trump pardoned D'Souza after sharing a plane flight with him in 2018.

John Arthur Johnson

Trump granted a rare and historic posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson in May 2018, 72 years after his death, clearing the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion of racially motivated charges resulting from his relationships with white women in 1912.

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby

Trump pardoned Libby, the George W. Bush administration aide convicted of lying to the FBI in an investigation into a leak of the identity of a covert CIA agent, in April 2018.

Libby was the chief of staff to then-Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby had become a key figure in what became known as the Valerie Plame affair.

Kristian Mark Saucier

Saucier, a former Navy submariner who was convicted in a federal court in Connecticut of taking pictures of a nuclear propulsion system and keeping them on his phone, was sentenced to a year in prison in 2016, during the height of the presidential campaign.

Trump took note of the case, citing Saucier as evidence that Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of State, should be jailed for mishandling classified information on a home email server set up to circumvent public records laws.

Trump pardoned Saucier in March 2018.

Joe Arpaio

Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff known for his brutal treatment of undocumented immigrants, was held in contempt of court for refusing to end the practice of "immigrant roundups."

Before Arpaio was sentenced, Trump issued a full pardon of Arpaio, one of candidate-Trump's earliest supporters, on August 25, 2017.

The lower court has refused to throw out Arpaio's conviction, and he remains in ongoing legal disputes. The Supreme Court refused to hear his most recent case.

Contributing: Kristen DelGuzzi, John Fritze, David Jackson, Courtney Subramanian; The Associated Press

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