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New York Times Mar 21, 2021

Access, Influence and Pardons: How a Set of Allies Shaped Trump’s Choices https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/politics/trump-pardons.html #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #Amnesties,CommutationsandPardons #Schneerson,MenachemMendel #Esformes,Philip(1968-) #JusticeDepartment #Weinstein,Eliyahu #Chabad-Lubavitch #Dershowitz,AlanM #Rubashkin,Sholom #OrthodoxJudaism #Kushner,Charles #Lipskar,SholomD #AlephInstitute #Friedler,Ariel #Trump,DonaldJ #Kushner,Jared #Tolman,Brett #TzedekAssn

How Trump’s Pardon Choices Were Shaped by a Set of Allies

A loose collection of well-connected groups and individuals led by a pair of Orthodox Jewish organizations had striking success in winning clemency for white-collar criminals during the Trump presidency.