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Trump Pardons Reach All the Way to Malaysia

Last-minute pardons free a long list of unrepentant offenders

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John Berthelsen
Jan 20, 2021
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Among the 142 people pardoned at the last minute by US President Donald Trump is one of the lesser lights, the 64-year-old Elliott Broidy, a former Trump fundraiser and megadonor who had hoped to earn as much as US$75 million in an audacious plan to keep fugitive Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho out of prison in the face of charges of looting billions o…

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