President Donald Trump has pardoned former US Representative Stephen Buyer, an Indiana Republican who was convicted of securities fraud for engaging in insider trading in 2018 as a T-Mobile US consultant before a merger with Sprint.
The proclamation, issued on Thursday and announced by the White House on Friday, gave no specific rationale for the pardon other than to assert that Buyer's service as a US Army judge advocate general and member of Congress "was distinguished and highly productive".
It also said Trump, in granting Buyer a "full, complete and unconditional pardon", was acting on the "advice and recommendation" of 52 current and former members of the US Senate and House of Representatives listed in the proclamation.
