One of the lesser-known individuals granted pardons and clemency by Pres. Donald Trump is a relatively obscure former construction company executive from Texas whose family members have given six-figure donations to the president's reelection campaign.
Paul Pogue himself doesn't appear to have given to Trump, but he's been an occasional Republican donor, maxing out donations to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's Senate committee in 2018 and also maxing out donation to Rick Santorum's presidential campaign in 2015. The White House named Santorum as one of seven people that supported Pogue's pardon.
Trump is by no means the only president who has granted clemency to a major donor. President Bill Clinton, on his last day in office, made theto pardon financier and major Democratic donor Marc Rich, who had fled overseas to escape indictment for alleged financial crimes. While others that were pardoned and commuted by President Trump on Tuesday don't appear to have made significant contributions to the Trump campaign, one of the higher-profile figures on the list, former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. appears to have been an early backer of the Trump presidency.
DeBartolo, who pleaded guilty in 1998 to concealing an alleged extortion plot by former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, co-hosted a pre-inaugural day party in Washington, D.C., aNot all of among the 11 pardoned or commuted on Tuesday were defenders and political allies of the president. One was Tynice Nichole Hall, a mother sentenced for possession and intent to distribute drugs.
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