President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Wednesday to the longtime Republican strategist Roger Stone.
A jury found Stone guilty last year of seven felonies, including making false statements, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice in connection with the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election. , who was convicted of eight counts of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failure to report foreign bank accounts as part of Mueller's probe. Manafort later pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction and one count of conspiracy, and he has since spent nearly two years in prison after beingThe president also granted a pardon to Charles Kushner, a real-estate businessman and the father of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Last month, Trump pardoned former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who in December 2017 admitted to lying to the FBI.