President Trump issued full pardons to five individuals and commuted the sentences of two others convicted of a variety of federal crimes
The two men whose sentences were commuted will now be released early from federal prison while those who received full pardons had already completed their prison sentences and will now have their rights fully restored.
Trump did not appear to have a direct connection to the five full pardons he issued, which included one man who was previously pardoned by President Barack Obama in 2017 over a drug trafficking charge, but whose"fraud conviction was not encompassed" in that pardon"due to a clerical error," the White House said.
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