An attorney for George Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser to President Trump, has already submitted an application to the White House for a pardon.
By Rosalind S. Helderman Rosalind S. Helderman Reporter focusing on political enterprise stories and investigations Email Bio Follow March 25 at 7:32 PM Now that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has concluded his investigation, a president who has used his pardon power in unorthodox ways faces the question of whether to extend it to former aides and advisers charged with crimes in Mueller’s probe.
In June, the president commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old serving a life sentence for a nonviolent crime, after he received a personal appeal from reality TV megastar Kim Kardashian. Flynn cooperated with the special counsel, and prosecutors recommended to a federal judge in December that he should receive no prison time.
“I don’t think that would be particularly helpful to the president,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham , one of the president’s closest allies on the Hill. The longtime lobbyist admitted that he committed bank and tax fraud and failed to properly register as a foreign agent for consulting work he performed in Ukraine before joining Trump’s campaign.
Neither court had made that ruling and, in fact, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson had pointedly said that the “no collusion mantra” that ran through Manafort’s filings was “simply a non sequitur” to his sentence for other crimes.
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