As Trump opens a new lane of clemency for corporations, Florida's Cruise America hits the road to Washington



By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org

Much has been written about President Trump’s recent use of his pardon power – often as large sums of money changed hands – to erase the federal criminal convictions of fraudsters, politicians, police officers, thieves and money launderers; yet little public notice has been taken of Trump’s use of his power to pardon corporations.

So far, it doesn’t have the attention-grabbing pull of handing out clemency to big-name recipients like Rudy Guiliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows or former Congressman George Santos, as Trump did last week. But granting a pardon or commutation to illicit businesses is a prerogative the president seems intent on wielding, given he’s already done it twice since retaking the White House in January.

“This could be an exponentially higher level of grift, granting pardons to corporations and undoing their restitution orders to the U.S. government or to private parties,” said Brett Kappel, a Washington, D.C. attorney and longtime national authority on campaign finance, lobbying and government ethics laws.




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