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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Trump pardons entertainment executive charged by president’s own Justice Department

Donald Trump has issued another controversial pardon, this time to entertainment company executive Tim Leiweke, who was charged by the president’s own Department of Justice in July.

Leiweke, co-founder of the Oak View Group, a live entertainment brand, received a federal grand jury indictment this summer for “orchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university in Austin, Texas.”

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