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Wed, 01/20/2021 - 08:28
TRUMP PARDONS FORMER NC GOP CHAIRMAN ROBIN HAYES: Former Republican Congressman Robin Hayes, swept up in one of North Carolina’s worst political corruption scandals, received a late-night pardon Tuesday from President Donald Trump. Hayes, who has completed his probation, was one of three former Republican congressman who received pardons shortly after midnight from Trump’s at the beginning of the president’s last day in office. The others, Rick Renzi of Arizona and Duke Cunningham of California, had finished prison terms tied to corruption convictions. Trump also pardoned former adviser Steve Bannon, the rapper Lil Wayne, and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, imprisoned for 28 years on a corruption charge, according to the Washington Post.
President Donald Trump has pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting nearly 150 people, including rap stars and former members of Congress.
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