Philip Esformes, whose prison sentence Trump commuted, loses appeal
Donald Trump, while president, commuted the sentence of Florida nursing home operator Philip Esformes. The DOJ plans to retry him on deadlocked fraud counts.
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Donald Trump, while president, commuted the sentence of Florida nursing home operator Philip Esformes. The DOJ plans to retry him on deadlocked fraud counts.
Kim Kardashian raised her voice against what she thinks the injustice being meted out to a man whose sentence was commuted by former president Donald Trump.Taking to Instagram on Sunday, the reality...
Former President Trump was arraigned on federal charges Tuesday, and some presidential candidates are weighing in on whether they'd pardon him, if they won the presidential election.
Donald Trump is the far-and-away 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner, according to a Harvard-Harris poll released Friday.
GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie on Thursday said he “can’t imagine” a presidential pardon for former President Trump if the Republican frontrunner is found guilty in the classified documents case for which he is facing federal charges. “I can’t imagine a circumstance, as we see it right now, let’s say with the documents case, which…
A New Jersey man who had his sentence commuted by former President Trump was charged Wednesday in a “multi-million dollar Ponzi-like fraud scheme.” Eliyahu Weinstein, who was previously convicted of defrauding investors on two separate occasions resulting in combined losses of about $230 million, had his 24-year sentence commuted by Trump on the last day…
Two years after Eliyahu Weinstein's release, prosecutors say he hasn't changed.
Bernard Kerik received a presidential pardon for past convictions in 2020, and later helped Trump investigate false claims of election fraud.
Clint Lorance’s bid to become a lawyer is being opposed by his own troops, who saw him murder two innocent Afghan civilians.
Former residents of Lord’s Ranch, run by Ted Suhl, convicted of bribery in 2016, say abuse was ‘systematic and widespread’
Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi is seriously concerned about the recent reporting that Donald Trump's White House was not vetting some people they were pardoning or commuting sentences for in the administration's final months. A New York Times report by Michael Schmidt and others revealed that o...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that if elected president he would pardon former President Donald Trump if he were convicted on the multiple criminal charges he faces.
"A leader needs to think about what's in the best interest of the country," stated Nikki Haley at a campaign event in New Hampshire.
Unforced errors from an AWOL defense secretary to promises of Jan. 6 pardons.
Donald Trump has made numerous statements suggesting that he plans to pardon his supporters who've been convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In one interview from 2022, he said he's considering "full pardons with an apology to many" if he's elected president. But a new report sugg...
Paul Manafort, former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman whom he later pardoned, is backing away from a role with the Republican National Convention following media scrutiny and questions over his involvement in the planning process, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he would have pardoned former President Trump if he had been in President Biden’s position when federal indictments were brought against him. In an interview set to air in full Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney said Biden would have looked like the “big guy” compared to…
Fierce Trump critic Sen. Mitt Romney revealed that he would've pardoned the 45th president as soon as the federal indictments came down and voiced bewilderment at why President Biden hasn't.
Republican senator tells MSNBC that ‘frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president’
US presidential nominee Donald Trump says he will seriously consider pardoning Julian Assange if he wins the November election.
Law professor Melissa Murray described on Sunday the power Trump has under the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling.
President-elect Donald Trump announces plans to pardon Jan. 6 defendants, supports the deportation of illegal immigrants, and upholds the nomination of Pete Hegseth despite allegations of misconduct. Concurrently, a large defamation verdict against Alex Jones stands, and the White House considers broader clemency after Hunter Biden's pardon.
There could be `exceptions’ to a pardon if individuals had acted `radical’ or `crazy’ during the assault, says Trump
More than 60 percent of Americans would disapprove of Trump pardoning those convicted in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a new poll found.
On the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland tried to convey the enormous scope of the law enforcement effort to bring the rioters to justice, calling it “one of the largest, most complex and most resource-intensive investigations in our history.”
Steve Bannon convinced a Manhattan judge Wednesday to let a "more aggressive" attorney defend him against charges similar to those President Trump pardoned him for and won a week-long delay of his upcoming trial.
"He was set up by a lot of bad people," the president said.
The recent raft of pardons handed out by President Trump has shortchanged fraud victims of millions of dollars in restitution that's still owed to them, attorneys say.
Ghislaine Maxwell is hopeful President Trump will review her case and pardon her ... after his DOJ's controversial announcement about the Jeffrey Epstein files this week -- but sources close to the President say there isn't a snowball's chance in Hell that'll…
Juan Orlando Hernandez, member of Trump-endorsed candidate Nasry Asfura's party, serving US drug trafficking sentence.
Honduras Ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez is not some fisherman suspected of hauling drugs in the Caribbean. If he were, he might have been killed by murderous Pete Hegseth already. No, Hernandez is a convicted cocaine trafficker. He was convicted in a Uni…