The Judiciary Committee Democrats’ investigation, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, also cited several multi-million dollar restitution payments that were cancelled by Trump’s recent pardons. The committee’s review said, “with a far greater financial effect, President Trump’s pardon spree has also swept in big-time corporate fraudsters, millionaire tax evaders, and other white-collar criminals. Thanks to President Trump’s pardons, these convicted criminals now get to keep $1.3 billion in ill-gotten gains they stole from their victims and American taxpayers….”
The report also cited fine payments from pardoned criminals. In the case of Scott Jenkins, a former Culpeper County, Virginia, sheriff who was convicted by a jury for a bribery scheme, the report said a $600 fine payment was absolved by the pardon. Jenkins, a longtime vocal Trump surrogate, was pardoned a day before he was scheduled to report to prison for a brazen scheme in which he took cash bribes in exchange for badges. Some of the bribe payments were captured on video and shown to jurors who promptly convicted Jenkins in December.
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