DETROIT — President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has served about seven years of a 28-year sentence for corruption.The announcement Wednesday was part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of Trump s White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of Congress and other allies of Trump and his family.A White House statement said that prominent members of the Detroit
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New York Times reported Sunday that as the Trump Administration counts down its final days, a “lucrative market for pardons” has emerged. Lawyers and others connected with President Trump have used that access to cash in and offer their access to people seeking pardons.
John Dowd, seen here in a 2015 photo for the Emory University School of Law, is reportedly pursuing a presidential pardon for sports bettor Billy Walters. Walters is currently finishing a five-year federal insider trading sentence through home incarceration. (Image: Emery Law News Center)
Among those the
Times reveals seeking that presidential power is noted Las Vegas gambler and insider trading convict Billy Walters. The Gray Lady said attorney John Dowd received “tens of thousands of dollars” to represent Walters. However, so far, President Trump has not issued a pardon in the case.
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Dustin Higgs was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for overseeing the kidnapping and murder of three women in Maryland in 1996.PHOTO: AFP
UpdatedJan 16, 2021, 4:10 pm
PublishedJan 16, 2021, 10:29 am SGT
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