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ecplaza.nethvac equipment roof rails, https://Global-Gathering.com/opinions/5797. President [/news/donald_trump/index.html Donald Trump] announced another pardon with less than an hour left in his term Wednesday.
Trump pardoned [/news/fox-news/index.html Fox News] personality Jeanine Pirro's ex-husband Albert Pirro, who spent nearly a year in federal prison for tax fraud, with the clemency announced after he landed in Mar-a-Lago.
Albert Pirro used to represent Trump in real estate deals.
It was the final pardon after an early-morning clemency spree of 143 pardons and commutations, the most high-profile being a pardon for his former political aide Steve Bannon.
Bannon, 67, helped Trump win the election in 2016 and was a senior White House adviser.
In August last year he pleaded not guilty to charges that he defrauded MAGA donors to 'We Build the Wall,' an online campaign that raised $25 million.
President Donald Trump gave a last-minute pardon to Albert Pirro (left) who was previously married to Fox News personality Judge Jeanine Pirro (right).
Here the couple is captured leaving court in 2000
President Donald Trump was landing in West Palm Beach, Florida when th epardon was revealed
Jeanine Pirro (left), then the GOP's state attorney general candidate, seen air-kissing her then-husband Albert Pirro (right).
They divorced in 2008
Pardoning Bannon in a list that dropped shortly after midnight the White House said: 'President Trump granted a full pardon to Stephen Bannon. Prosecutors pursued Mr. Bannon with charges related to fraud stemming from his involvement in a political project.
'Mr.
Bannon has been an important leader in the conservative movement and is known for his political acumen.'
Trump also pardoned rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black who were prosecuted on federal weapons offenses, as well as former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was serving a 28-year prison term on corruption charges.
He will also pardon Elliott Broidy, a former top fundraiser for Trump who pleaded guilty last year to violating foreign lobbying laws, Ken Kurson, a friend of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner who was charged last October with cyberstalking during a heated divorce and Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing the internet giant's self-driving car files ahead of joining Uber.
But notable names not on the list were Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Tiger King's Joe Exotic, Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani or any members of the Trump family, all of whom were rumored to be under consideration.
It also ended years of speculation that Trump would try to immunize himself, an unprecedented and legally questionable step which he had previously claimed he had the power to take.
The list was issued just hours before Trump leaves the White House for the last time and the pardon power, nuclear codes and other trappings of the presidency are transferred to Joe Biden, who will take the oath of office at noon Eastern time.
Leaving under the cloud of a second impeachment and the riot he provoked at the Capitol two weeks ago, Trump wished luck to the new administration in a 'farewell address' last night but did not mention Biden by name and still has not accepted in public that he legitimately lost the election.
Donald Trump has pardoned Steve Bannon. The former White House Chief Strategist, center, exits the Manhattan Federal Court on August 20 last year after he was accused of defrauding donors in a $25 million border wall fundraising campaign
<div class="art-ins mol-factbox news floatRHS" data-version="2" id="mol-b3bac7e0-5b3c-11eb-9baf-d990deea6dc3" website pardons 'Judge Jeanine's' fraudster ex-husband Albert