NBA Youngboy, politicians and reality TV features among Trump’s latest pardons

Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump On Wednesday, a series of pardons, granting them to a former member of the New York Congress, a Governor of Connecticut, a rapper known as “NBA Youngboy”, a union manager and an army officer who posted security measures during the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump’s actions mixed his willingness to forgive high -level republicans and other supporters, donors and friends with the influence of Alice Marie JohnsonThat Trump recently named his Czar Sorry after he offered him a forgiveness in 2020.

Trump also commissioned the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader, serving a perpetuity sentence in a Colorado Supermax prison. Hoover was imprisoned for the first time as part of a murder in 1973, and was found guilty of having managed a criminal business in 1998, but then renounced his criminal past and asked for a reduced sentence.

Among those who receive Trump’s latest series of pardons, there were Louisiana rap artist Nba Youngboy, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden and whose scene nicknames “Never Broke again”.

In 2024, he was sentenced Just under two years in prison for accusations linked to firearms after admitting having owned weapons despite a convicted criminal. Gaulden also pleaded guilty to his role in A prescription medication fraud ring In Utah.

The pardons of Gaulden and the others were confirmed Wednesday evening by two managers of the White House who only talked about background to detail actions which had not yet been officially made public.

In a statement published online, Gaulden said: “I would like to thank President Trump for giving me forgiveness and giving me the opportunity to continue building – as a man, as a father and as an artist.”

He said that “opens the door to a future for which I worked hard and I am fully ready to enter this area”, and I thanked Johnson.

Trump spent the week emitting high -level pardons. The video published by an assistant from the White House showed Johnson in the oval office on Tuesday, while Trump called their daughter to say that he was forgiving the TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley of the reality show ” Chrisley knows best. “”

Their show highlighted the extravagant lifestyle of the family, but the couple was found guilty of conspiracy in order to defraud the banks in the Atlanta region on more than $ 30 million in loans by subjecting false documents than their daughter, Savannah Chrisley, addressed the Republican Convention last summer and had long said that her parents had been treated unwavering.

Also Wednesday, Trump pardoned James Callahan, a chief of the New York union who pleaded guilty for not having reported $ 315,000 in gifts from an advertising company and was about to be convicted.

The president also forgiven the former governor of Connecticut. John RowlandA republican who served from 1995 to 2004 and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for accusations related to the concealment of his involvement in two federal electoral campaigns.

He has forgiven more Michael GrimmA New York Republican who resigned from Congress after being found guilty of tax fraud. Grimm won the re-election in 2014 despite his accusation act for wages and underestimated income in a restaurant he directed.

Grimm finally resigned after pleading guilty and served eight months in prison. Last year, Grimm was chest paralyzed When he was thrown from a horse during a polo tournament.

Another pardon of Trump was issued for the lieutenant of the army Mark Bradshaw, who was sentenced in 2022 for reporting to work without undergoing a COVVI-19 test.

Alice Marie Johnson was sentenced in 1996 to eight criminal counts linked to a cocaine traffic operation based in Memphis. Trump committed his sentence to life in 2018 at the request of the celebrity Kim Kardashian West, allowing Johnson’s early release.

Johnson was then a star lecturer in the last night of the 2020 Republican National Convention, and Trump subsequently forgiven it before naming it more recently as his point of view.

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