US EditionLobbyists Make Millions in Pursuit of Trump Pardons
Lobbyists earned $2.1 million in 2025 lobbying for presidential pardons, with $815,000 spent in the last quarter and at least one successful pardon, Joseph Schwartz.
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Trump-pardoned felons rake in millions helping other crooks buy their freedom: report
Criminals are dropping serious cash to grease the wheels of Trump's pardon machine, according to a new report. New disclosures reveal federal lobbyists raked in over $2.1 million last year from legally troubled individuals desperately seeking presidential clemency — and that's probably just the tip ...
Lobbyists Make Millions in Pursuit of Trump Pardons
President Donald Trump. Evan Vucci/APFederal lobbyists disclosed receiving more than $2.1 million last year from criminals and other legally imperiled people looking to secure a pardon or clemency from President Donald Trump — and that’s likely an undercount.At least $815,000 of that total was spent during the fourth quarter of 2025, according to new disclosures filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. And some of that money went to lobbyists wh…
Trump-pardoned felons rake in millions helping other crooks buy their freedom: report
Criminals are dropping serious cash to grease the wheels of Trump's pardon machine, according to a new report. New disclosures reveal federal lobbyists raked in over $2.1 million last year from legally troubled individuals desperately seeking presidential clemency — and that's probably just the…
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, not only pardoned last week former Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, who pleaded guilty to violating the election campaign financing law, but also pardoned the three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for the beneficiary of Law 22/60, Terren Scott Peizer, accused of fraud and privileged information trafficking in California. In July 2021, 66-year-old Peizer obtained his contributory decree …
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, not only pardoned last week former Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, who pleaded guilty to violating the election campaign financing law, but also pardoned the three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for the beneficiary of Law 22/60, Terren Scott Peizer, accused of fraud and privileged information trafficking in California. In July 2021, 66-year-old Peizer obtained his contributory decree …
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