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Some of last Trump pardons went to Albert Pirro and man who'd asked Obama

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump climb the stairs to Air Force One for the final time on Wednesday during a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Photo by Stefani Reynolds/UPI
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump climb the stairs to Air Force One for the final time on Wednesday during a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Photo by Stefani Reynolds/UPI | License Photo

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Before he left office for the final time, former President Donald Trump gave a last-minute pardon on Wednesday to the former husband of a conservative commentator.

Albert Pirro, who was formerly married to Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro, received a pardon on Trump's final list.

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Pirro, 73, was convicted in 2000 on dozens of conspiracy and tax evasion charges after he improperly deducted more than $1 million in lavish personal expenses as tax write-offs for his business.

Pirro was sentenced to 29 months in prison while his then-wife was district attorney in Westchester County, N.Y.

"Today, President Donald J. Trump granted a full pardon to Albert J. Pirro, Jr.," Trump spokesman Judd Deere said in a brief statement on Wednesday.

Trump pardoned dozens of other people in the final weeks of his presidency, including former advisers and aides Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and four private security guards who killed a number of Iraqi civilians in 2007.

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NBC News reported Wednesday that one of the final pardons also went to a Pennsylvania man who never requested one from Trump.

The man, Gary Hendler, who pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges in 1984, had actually asked former President Barack Obama for the pardon before he left office in 2017.

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