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Brothers and Boston Police Officers Brian J. MacLean and Robert J. MacLean both died unexpectedly, their deaths less than two years apart.

Fox News is drawing a great deal of blowback for an article that appears to advance a misleading insinuation that Senator Tammy Duckworth committed tax fraud.

The New York Times: Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump This article features our client Robert J. MacLean and was originally published here. WASHINGTON — As President Trump prepares to leave office in days, a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees from wealthy felons or their associates to push the White House for clemency, according to ...

Few regulations or disclosure requirements govern presidential clemency grants or lobbying for them, particularly by lawyers, and there is nothing illegal about Trump associates being paid to lobby for clemency. Any explicit offers of payment to the president in return could be investigated as possible violations of bribery laws; no evidence has emerged that Trump was offered money in exchange for a pardon. Some who used resources or connections to try to get to Trump say clemency should be gra...

As President Donald Trump prepares to leave office in days, a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees from wealthy felons or their associates to push the White House for clemency, according to documents and interviews with more than three dozen lobbyists and lawyers.

Trump’s former personal lawyer, John M Dowd, has marketed himself to felons as someone who could secure pardons because of his close relationship with the president

Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump The president’s allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars — and potentially much more — from people seeking pardons. The brisk market for pardons reflects the access peddling that has defined the Trump presidency as well as President Trump’s unorthodox approach to exercising unchecked presidential clemency powers.Credit...Samuel Corum for The New York Times Published Jan. 17, 2021Updated March 21, 2021 WASHIN...