On the morning of January 6, 2021, an official of senior White House officials, one of the Republican pressure groups, confirmed that a request for amnesty for his client in the pipeline will be submitted to be considered by President Trump before leaving his position.
Hours later, management He was Treed by the Trump supporter attack on the Capitol. The pressure groups did not hear about the pardon, and his client remained imprisoned for his role in the insurance bribery scandal She rocked the Republican policy in North Carolina He left thousands of retirees Unable to reach their pensions For years.
After four years, the pressure groups returned, as he pushed to the presidential pardon for the same customer, Gogol, to secure Greg. Lindberg.
But this time is different. In the new administration, there is a team of appointed focusing on the process early in the mandate of Mr. Trump, with a special focus on granting the compassion that emphasizes the president’s grievances about what the political weapons of the judicial system see.
Lawyers and pressure groups who had links to Mr. Trump were quick to benefit. They have collected large fees from those looking for compassion who will not be eligible to obtain second opportunities under politics Standards Which aims to direct the Ministry of Justice system to recommend mercy to those who have served their time or showed their remorse and the possibility of declining apartments.
Instead, the seekers of this system often circumvent, and they hunt their stadiums for the president by emphasizing their loyalty to him and the frequency of his allegations of political persecution.
Among them is rapper I am convicted regarding the Malaysian embezzlement schemeA couple of real stars, convicted of them Frauds on banks and tax evasionAnd two from Washington, DC, the police officers condemned after a chase, killing a young man.
“The use of Mr. Trump for the situation in his first term,” said Rachel Parko, a professor at the University of New York University Law, who studied the use of the presidential perfume.
She said, “Like any complement, it will be worse.”
Non -traditional approach
Mr. Trump and former President Joseph R. were criticized. Biden Junior to ignore him to examine and instruct the amnesty lawyer office in the Ministry of Justice in their higher grants. Cleansing experts objected to Mr. Biden Pardon long -term From his son Hunter and Other family membersAnd to Mr. Trump A sweeping grant of compassion For all 1,600 people accused regarding the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
The operation used by the Public Prosecutor’s Office aims to apply to identify and recommend applicants in order to compassion to prefer those who accept responsibility for their crimes and are unlikely to be restored.
The presidents are not obligated to act based on the office’s recommendations to expand the second opportunities through the amnesty, which erase condemnation, and through the movement, which reduces the prison sentences.
According to the people familiar with this, the White House of Mr. Trump marginalized the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which led to the transformation of control of a large part of the raising process to the White House Advisor’s office.
On Friday evening, Elizabeth J. Air, who has been the American amnesty lawyer since his appointment in 2022 during the Biden administration, He said on social media That is Fire has been launched From the post by Todd Blanche, Review recently Deputy Public Prosecutor.
Even before the shooting, a senior White House official said in an interview.
Among the relevant White House officials, Sean Hayes, who worked for actor Jim Jordan, the Republic of Ohio, and Gary Lukovsky, who served as deputy advisor in Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign.
Moreover, Mr. Trump last month named Alice Johnson in the name of “Pardon for the Caesar”, “ Responsible for the recommendation to grant the compassion. This made the official character to the role of its occupation as an external advisor during the first period of Mr. Trump, when she called for legislation and giving compassion to reduce judgments for non -violent drug criminals. In 2018, Mr. Trump had reduced a life sentence for drug -related crimes, then gave her a complete amnesty in 2020.
Supporters of the Prophet expressed their optimism that Mrs. Johnson will press for pardon and movement for people with colors, as well as for those who lack wealth or political ties and who may be considered sits in the office of the amnesty lawyer. Before Mr. Trump, her request was rejected by the office, which led to a criticism to move very slowly and give a lot of weight to the opinions of public prosecutors.
Shared grievances
Alex Little, the former public prosecutor, represents three people looking for compassion with appeals that reflect the grievances of Mr. Trump.
“There are major players in the Trump administration who have a seat in the front row of public behavior,” he said in an interview. “It changes your view on these issues, and it is difficult to ignore this when you return to the government.”
Mr. Little has prepared the thick folders with the documents of the court, certificates and narrative summaries to submit them to the White House and some officials of the Ministry of Justice – but especially the Amnesty Lawyer’s Office – in arguing for mercy to its customers.
Among them is conservative reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley. In 2022, they were sentenced to federal imprisonment on charges of defrauding banks and tax evasion, which the prosecutors said was a lifestyle. Mr. Little wrote that his conviction “embodies the weapon of justice against conservatives and public figures, which leads to the erosion of basic constitutional protection.”
The summary, which I read loudly by the daughter of Cristillas, Savana Chrisley, On the podcast for her last monthIt is noted that her parents are “audio supporters of President Trump.”
Connecting the summary of Mr. Little, the prosecutor in the Cristillas case to Fanny Willis, the Prosecutor in the state of Georgia who Mr. Trump was accused in 2023 Regarding his efforts to cling to power after the 2020 elections.
Mr. Little is also working on the Lindberg case, as he compared him in the amnesty package to Mr. Trump, and writes that Mr. Lindberg “has become a target for professional prosecutors in the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office who distributed a legitimate commercial dispute over criminal charges.” Its summary is noted that Mr. Lindberg was previously represented by Mr. Blanche, and indicates that the Deputy Prosecutor, who is expected to supervise the portfolio of the housewife of the Ministry of Justice, believes the case was defective.
The Ministry of Justice did not answer questions about whether Mr. Blanche would return himself from the matter.
They also work with Mr. Lindberg, there are well -connected lawyers by pressing the amnesty at the end of the last Trump administration: veteran Republican pressure groups Alex Vogel and famous defense lawyer Alan M. Darshwitz, who defended Mr. Trump during the first trial of the first responsibility and loss She developed a position as a riot Near the end of the administration.
In an interview, Mr. Dershowitz threw his work on the rest of his continuation of his legal representation, adding: “I am just dealing with cases that I think deserves to be compassionate.”
Mr. Vogel was the person who was pressing a White House official in the hours before the Capitol riots, according to a person familiar with the episode.
High price invitation
It was Mr. Vogel Pay 100,000 dollars In less than three months of pressing one of Mr. Lindberg’s companies at the time, according to what I said Congress filesHint to the profitable fees available for those who offer help to secure amnesty from Mr. Trump. Various Lindberg Company Re -involvement of Mr. Vogel After Mr. Trump’s victory in the 2024 elections and She paid $ 100,000 in December.
Another attorney related to Trump is a law firm, where Mr. Vogel was a partner, Jonathan Fahi, a police officer in Washington, DC, Pardoning Mr. Trump In January. The officer was sentenced to four years imprisonment for conspiracy to cover up the pursuit of the police, killing a 20 -year -old black man. This episode led to days of protests racist justice and clashes in the country’s capital.
Mr. Fahi, who complained of a The politicization of the Ministry of Justice Against Mr. Trump, in a Social media yet The officer called “a victim of the prosecution on political motives.”
Likewise, Sam Bankan’s fried allies were referring to a former Trump campaign for Put the encrypted currency, imprisoned for pardon By claiming that he was unfairly treated by the Public Prosecutor and a judge, the Mr. Trump team clashed with him.
Margaret Loew, who held the position of amnesty in the United States in the 1990s, and now working in special practice, warned that Mr. Trump’s approach to the compassion risks the preference of wealthy people or well -related persons who claim abuse by the judicial system.
She said in an e -mail: “The ordinary people who express their remorse and seek forgiveness should be able to reach the benefits of coercion without the intervention of lawyers and pressure groups with high prices.”
Other lawyers who have ties with Mr. Trump, who successfully received the compassion, returned during his first term with more customers.
Adam Katz previously helped secure Adriana Cambrus, a businesswoman in southern California who was sentenced to prison because of her role in a scheme to sell millions of fake bottles of caffeine energy for 5 hours. She was I am convicted in a new fraud case The involvement of consumer goods in October, to become one of at least seven people accused of new crimes, including domestic violence, according to what he said. Analyzes from the New York Times.
Mr. Katz, who day represented Rudolph W. Juliani in a defamation case related to his efforts to cancel the loss of Mr. Trump in the 2020 elections, pardon the rapper Barazizril Michel, known as Bras, who was In 2023, he was convicted due to foreign pressure violations And other crimes related to the Malaysian embezzlement scheme.
Mr. Michelle’s allies, a black, have argued to the Trump administration officials that he was more cruel by the Ministry of Justice White colleagues Who were Involved.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Michelle suggested that the argument will resonate with Mrs. Johnson, stressing that she “understands more than anyone else’s integrated injustice in our criminal justice system.”
Mrs. Johnson did not respond to a request for comment.
Erica L. Green The reports contributed.
