Pardons & Commutations
Every individual pardoned or commuted by Trump in his second term, with subsequent activity tracked.
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Klecko pleaded guilty in January 1993 to one count of perjury, specifically for lying to a federal grand jury in November 1991 during an investigation into a large-scale automobile insurance fraud scheme. The scheme centered on the Sun Oil Company refinery in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, where employees of the Travelers Insurance Company's Voorhees, New Jersey office conspired with auto body shops and claimants to submit fraudulent damage claims — alleging that refinery emissions had ruined vehicle paint finishes — for incidents purportedly occurring between 1988 and 1990. Travelers paid out more than $5 million in fraudulent claims before the scheme was exposed. A federal grand jury ultimately indicted 67 people in connection with the fraud in October 1992. Klecko's role was to lend his pickup truck's registration to be used in submitting a false claim; when called before the grand jury he lied about the condition of the truck and his involvement, telling investigators he had not participated. His attorney stated at sentencing that Klecko had lied to protect friends and that he later deeply regretted it, apologising directly to the court.
De Jong was the owner of Diamond Environmental Services, a portable toilet company based in San Marcos, California. Beginning around 2009, he and the company's chief operating officer, Warren L. Van Dam, orchestrated a scheme in which drivers routinely dumped the contents of portable toilet trucks — raw human waste — directly into municipal sewer lines at company facilities in San Diego, San Marcos, Perris, Fullerton, and Huntington Park, rather than transporting the waste to licensed disposal facilities and paying the required treatment fees. The scheme allowed the company to avoid millions of dollars in legitimate disposal costs, with the savings flowing directly to De Jong as profit. De Jong pleaded guilty in June 2017 to one count of conspiracy to violate the Clean Water Act (18 U.S.C. § 371 / 33 U.S.C. § 1311) in the Southern District of California. The case — United States v. Diamond Environmental Services LP, No. 3:17-cr-01305 — also resulted in a separate perjury conviction for a company compliance officer who lied to investigators.
Convicted of violating the Clean Air Act in connection with emissions defeat devices.
Conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act
Convicted of violating the Clean Air Act in connection with emissions defeat devices.
Tampering in violation of the Clean Air Act
Tampering with a monitoring device or method required by the Clean Air Act
Conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act
Conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act
Conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act
Convicted of conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act and pleaded guilty to tampering with monitoring devices on hundreds of vehicles nationwide.
Convicted of conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act by manufacturing and selling aftermarket defeat devices that bypass emissions controls on vehicles.
Convicted of violating the Clean Air Act in connection with emissions defeat devices.
Convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act by selling defeat devices that disabled EPA-approved emission controls on vehicles, and tax evasion.
Convicted of violating the Clean Air Act in connection with the manufacture or sale of emissions defeat devices.
Convicted of violating the Clean Air Act in connection with the sale and installation of aftermarket defeat devices on vehicles.
Convicted of violating the Clean Air Act in connection with the manufacture or sale of emissions defeat devices.
Conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act
Conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act