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Prez Trump continuing to make robust use of his clemency pen (for white-collar offenders)

Prez Trump made historic use of his clemency powers during his first few days in office this year, and he clearly continues to enjoy to exercising his broad executive authority to grant pardons and commutations.  Consider all this federal clemency action today:

Trump pardons three founders of BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange convicted of money laundering

Convicted of bilking investors, Nikola founder and Trump donor gets a presidential pardon

Trump commutes sentence of Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson convicted of fraud