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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 04: Former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski leaves the the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Federal Court on September 04, 2019 in San Jose, California. (Justin Sullivan | Getty Images)
CALIFORNIA President Donald Trump issued a flurry of pardons and commuted sentences in the final hours of his presidency, including at least six with California ties.
Trump granted pardons to 73 people and commuted the sentences of another 70 as one of his final acts before leaving office Wednesday.
Notably, he did not pardon himself or any members of his family or former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney.
Here are the 143 people Donald Trump pardoned the night before he left office, plus one revealed in his final minutes
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In the final hours of his presidency, Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 144 people.
The first list, which included 143 names issued the night before Joe Biden s inauguration, included former White House aide
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.
Lil Wayne and Kodak Black Among 4 Hip-Hop Figures Trump Pardoned
An executive from Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and a founder of Death Row Records also received pardons or commutations, capping a long, strange relationship between the former president and the rap world.
Lil Wayne and Kodak Black were among the 143 pardons and commutations announced by former President Trump during his final hours in office. Credit.Associated Press
Jan. 20, 2021
In late October, just days before the presidential election, and almost a year after federal authorities had seized a handgun from his private plane, the rapper Lil Wayne spent nearly an hour with Donald J. Trump at the president’s Doral Golf Club in Miami.