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    Re: Full list of Trump's pardons Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on January 20, 2021, 8:09 am, in reply to "Full list of Trump's pardons"

    As an example of the disparity between the list and the details:

    The Heil:

    President Trump commuted the sentence of Shalom Weiss. This commutation is supported by former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, former Solicitors General Ken Starr and Seth Waxman, former United States Representative Bob Barr, numerous members of the New York legislature, notable legal figures such as Professor Alan Dershowitz and Jay Sekulow, former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman, and various other former elected officials. Mr. Weiss was convicted of racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, for which he has already served over 18 years and paid substantial restitution. He is 66 years old and suffers from chronic health conditions.

    Wiki (admittedly not that much better):

    On February 15, 2000, the Middle District Court of Florida (Orlando) sentenced Weiss, to 845 years (later reduced to 835 years) in prison for racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering, and the interstate transportation of stolen funds. The evidence at trial established that Weiss had been instrumental in causing National Heritage Life Insurance Company (NHLIC) a loss of more than $125 million and had worked with certain NHLIC insiders to hide those losses from company executives and state insurance regulators. Weiss proclaimed his innocence throughout the nine month trial against these charges,[3]

    Following the jury’s return of a guilty verdict on all 78 counts of the indictment, Weiss was ordered to pay a restitution of $125,016,656 and a fine of $123,399,910, in connection with the collapse of National Heritage Life Insurance Company (NHLC).[4][5] However, Weiss' lawyers argued, unsuccessfully, that the restitution should never have been imposed because his involvement did not result in any losses to the insurance company, its stakeholders, or its policies.[6] While the jury was deliberating, Weiss fled the country and was a fugitive for one year. He was subsequently located by law enforcement living in Austria and extradited back to the United States in 2002.[7]

    Weiss' sentence is the longest given to a white-collar criminal sentence in the United States.[8][6]

    Mr Shalom Weiss’s sentence was pardoned by President Trump on January 20th, 2021 after much work and organizing by his family, friends, and supporters.


    The longest sentence ever given to a white-collar criminal, who went on the run before sentencing and he does 18 years and gets a pardon. That'll learn 'em.

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