On Tuesday, the White House named the individuals whom President Trump pardoned or to whom he had granted clemency. People on both sides of the aisle were confused by the list but they shouldn’t have been. Trump was making a point about government overreach in prosecutions, as well as reminding people about his First Step Act, which brings reformed (mostly minority) prisoners home.
Here’s a short rundown of the pardons and clemency grants.
Pardons
Eddie DeBartolo, Jr., former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, who was “convicted for failing to report a felony regarding payment demanded for a riverboat casino license,” resulting in 2 years’ probation.
Michael Milken, a brilliant financier whose innovations made capital available to people who ordinarily would never have benefitted from it.
In 1989, at the height of his finance career, Mr. Milken was charged in an indictment alleging that some of his innovative financing mechanisms were in fact criminal schemes. The charges filed against Mr. Milken were truly novel. In fact, one of the lead prosecutors later admitted that Mr. Milken had been charged with numerous technical offenses and regulatory violations that had never before been charged as crimes. Though he initially vowed to fight the charges, Mr. Milken ultimately pled guilty in exchange for prosecutors dropping criminal charges against his younger brother. As a result, Mr. Milken served 2 years in prison in the early 1990s.
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