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Trump’s ‘tough on crime’ agenda erases more than $119M owed to victims

The Independent·Alex Woodward·about 18 hours ago
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Donald Trump’s pardon wave has erased more than $119 million in restitution owed to crime victims following a historic streak of pardons for white-collar criminals and political allies accused of fraud and corruption.

The list of fines, compiled by CBS News , does not include nearly $120 million that was owed to the Crime Victims Fund and another $171 million in restitution that is jointly owed with co-defendants who did not receive clemency, bringing the total funds that were denied to victims and the government to more than $1.1 billion over the last two years.

Those fines also don’t include $661 million in restitution owed by the former tech CEO who was convicted of defrauding investors, nor the potentially tens of thousands of dollars that would have likely been owed to the government by the more than 1,500 people charged in connection with the January 6 attack .…

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