President Trump’s pardon bandwagon made some stops among the rich and famous late Tuesday.
In the final hours of his presidency, the outgoing commander in chief issued pardons and sentence commutations for more than 140 people, including the rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, as well as his former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who faced charges for allegedly misusing donation funds for Trump’s border wall campaign.
Lil Wayne, real name Dwayne Carter Jr., pleaded guilty in December 2020 to illegally possessing a loaded, gold-plated .45-caliber handgun while traveling to South Florida on a private plane around Christmas 2019. His sentencing was scheduled for Jan. 28.
Eric Love, a private investigator who is a part of Team Tiger, said in a texted statement to DailyMail.com that his supporters were disappointed at Trump s choice not to pardon him.
The zookeeper-turned-reality-TV-star was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison for violating federal wildlife laws and for his role in a failed murder-for-hire plot. His team was so confident in a pardon that they'd readied a celebratory limousine and a hair and wardrobe team to whisk him away from a Texas prison.