Former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently hit out at President Donald Trump in a post on X, calling a recent pardon deal “so gross and corrupt.” Her comments came after more details emerged in the case of Trump granting a full pardon to Joseph Schwartz, a Jewish nursing home operator. Schwartz had served only three months of a three-year sentence for a nearly $39 million fraud scheme.
The pardon, issued on November 14, 2025, erased Schwartz’s federal conviction. Federal prosecutors had stated that Schwartz refused to pay payroll taxes withheld from employees’ wages across 11 states. According to a ProPublica investigation, Schwartz funneled over $1 million to lobbyists, including figures connected to the White House, to secure this clemency. He reportedly paid $960,000 to lobbyists Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl specifically to get the pardon.
