President Persists in Promulgating Pardons for Perpetrators of Plunder -- Pardoning for Profit?

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President Persists in Promulgating Pardons for Perpetrators of Plunder - Pardoning for Profit?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/trump-pardons-tim-leiweke

Trump pardons entertainment exec indicted by his own justice department

Tim Leiweke was accused of ‘orchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university’

[Anonymous]

Perhaps? Probably.

[Anonymous]

This couldn’t make better messaging for Democrats if he had been trying.

“President Trump promised to crack down on bad behavior in the ticketing and concert industry to help bring down prices for American fans.
This past week, though, he pardoned a sports executive in one of his Justice Department’s big battles against the industry, Tim Leiweke.
Trump decided on the pardon after Republican former Rep. Trey Gowdy raised the case with him following a round of golf, according to people familiar with the matter. Leiweke had faced charges of rigging the bid for a $375 million basketball arena that was later built for the University of Texas. He had pleaded not guilty.
The pardon wiped away a case that Trump’s antitrust chief had said fleeced Texas taxpayers. It also revealed the risky strategy prosecutors chose to pursue in granting immunity to Leiweke’s partners and focusing on Leiweke alone.  
Leiweke was expected to be a witness in the government’s big civil case designed to improve competition and pricing in concerts and sports, and his indictment was the only criminal case targeting how the live-events industry works.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-ticket-prices-pardon-tim-leiweke-4b33a540?mod=mhp