Trump Pardons Former GOP Lawmaker Who Served Time After FBI Sting

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BY TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
MAY 17, 2019 AT 8:26 AM
By John Wildermuth

President Trump on Wednesday pardoned former GOP Assemblyman Pat Nolan, who spent more than two years in federal prison after pleading guilty in 1994 in an FBI sting operation looking into corruption in the Legislature ...

Nolan has been an acquaintance of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, ever since Kushner's father was sentenced to prison for tax evasion and other crimes in 2005 ...

... he ran afoul of an FBI operation prompted by reports that legislators were taking bribes to pass bills. Undercover FBI agents formed a phony company called Gulf Shrimp Fisheries, paying more than $80,000 in campaign contributions solicited by legislators and their aides to move bills helping the bogus company ...

Nolan accepted checks from an undercover FBI agent to help get the bills passed. He wasn't the only legislator caught in the operation dubbed "Shrimpscam." Three state senators and another assemblyman also received prison sentences ...

https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/tns-trump-pardons-pat-nolan.html

[GoCubsGo]

1. Oh, look! More abuse of power!

If you're a friend of the Trump family, you can just get a pardon for your crimes.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Yeah, I know. I wonder what will happen when he's on his way out of office, and he pardons ...

a thousand of his rich buddies?

[riversedge]

3. So, a friend of Jarads get a pardon. damn.

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4. The WH-Trump is making Nolan out to be the good guy....

...........Nolan was charged in 1993 with felony counts that included conspiracy, extortion, money laundering and racketeering, but was told that the charges would disappear if he pleaded guilty to the racketeering charge.

"He could defend himself against charges of public corruption and risk decades in prison or he could plead guilty and accept a 33-month sentence," the White House statement said. "Determined to help his wife raise their three young children, Mr. Nolan chose to accept the plea."

In prison, Nolan helped organize religious study groups. He is currently director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the American Conservative Union and is the author of a guide for churches and community groups that help former convicts.

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7. Oh, so is he going to pardon everyone who has plead

guilty to avoid the uncertainty of a trial? That would be nice. It's what public defenders advise their poor clients to do, whether they committed the crime or not.

[MFGsunny]

5. oh, look, he SHOPPED at Jared's (criminal flea market) n/t

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6. This Nolan ass was busted in the infamous Shrimpscam sting

He was indicted on six counts, including racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, and money laundering.

Now that he has a clean slate, I would not be surprised if the orange anus tries to recruit him.