Ken Vogel
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 9 Mar
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One really interesting example that I found of the transactional industry that has emerged around President Trump and clemency is a guy by the name of Joseph Schwartz.
He owned a nursing home empire that collapsed amid allegations of endangering the residents and defrauding his employees.
And he ultimately pleaded guilty to charges related to tax fraud and got a three-year sentence.
He ended up having to report to jail at this minimum security facility in Otisville, New York.
And he quickly started talking to a guy who had connections, different connections in Trump world to pro-Israel evangelicals and Jewish figures.
And this lobbyist ended up recommending that Joseph Schwartz and his family
hire still other lawyers who were paid thousands of dollars more, who had connections to people who were involved in the clemency process, including one lawyer who had connections to the pardon czar inside the White House, and another lawyer who had connections to the White House counsel himself.
It's not clear which, if any, of these efforts did the trick, but after just three weeks behind bars at Otisville, Joseph Schwartz was freed by a full and unconditional pardon from President Trump.
What I found in reporting out this story and others like it is that this pardon industry really prioritizes the ability to find someone who can get to the president and make the case for the pardon and not remorse, atonement, and the unlikelihood of recidivism, which were really the traditional things that pardon applicants used to stress when they were making their cases.
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