Pardoned Jan. 6 Offender to Speak Saturday at Lake Station Church

Pardoned Jan. 6 offender to speak Saturday at Lake Station church

"I told (the Lake Station Republican Party), I said, 'I hope you guys don't think I'm gonna come up there and just start slamming one side and praising the other, because that's not it,'" Kelly said.

Ex-inmate pardoned by Trump tapped as Federal Bureau of Prisons deputy director

Joshua Smith was pardoned on the last day of President Trump's first term in office for drug trafficking crimes from more than two decades ago.

Pardoned ex-federal inmate tapped as Bureau of Prisons deputy director.

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Former federal inmate pardoned by Trump tapped as Bureau of...

Inmates running the asylum A former federal inmate who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in his first term for drug trafficking crimes more than two decades ago has been tapped as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to bureau spokesperson Kristie Breshears. Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman who founded an inmate advocacy and rehabilitation nonprofit foundation, the Fourth Purpose, will be second…