#ElizabethFago had particular incentive to curry favor with #Trump at the time.

As NYT previously reported, she was appealing to Trump to #pardon her son, #PaulWalczak, who had pleaded #guilty to tax #crimes late last year.

Less than 3 weeks after Fago attended the dinner, Trump signed a full & unconditional pardon for Walczak. It spared him from having to pay nearly $4.4M in #restitution & from reporting to #prison for an 18-month sentence.

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…Another guest at the April dinner was the businesswoman #ElizabethFago.

While Fago had raised money for #Republican candidates for decades, her previous largest federal donation on record was $100,000 to the Republican National Committee in 2002. Yet the day before the candlelight dinner, she donated $1 million to #MAGA Inc.

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