{"id":42859,"date":"2025-05-28T23:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42859"},"modified":"2025-05-28T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:05:09","slug":"trump-commutes-sentence-for-donor-imaad-zuberi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42859","title":{"rendered":"Trump commutes sentence for donor Imaad Zuberi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><u>President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>has commuted the sentence of top political donor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/imaad-zuberi\/\"><u>Imaad Zuberi,<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/539511-top-political-donor-sentenced-to-12-years-in-prison-for-illegal-campaign\/\"><u>had been sentenced<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to 12 years in prison in 2021 after giving illegal campaign contributions to former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\/\"><u>President Biden\u2002<\/u><\/a>and Sen.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/lindsey-graham\/\"><u>Lindsey Graham\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-S.C.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A White House official confirmed Trump commuted his sentence to The Hill\u2019s sister network NewsNation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Zuberi had pleaded guilty in 2019 and 2020 to tax evasion, lobbying top U.S. officials while working as a foreign agent, campaign finance violations and obstruction of justice. Alongside the 12-year sentence, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips ordered Zuberi to pay close to $16 million in restitution and a nearly $2 million fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI\u2019m deeply sorry and, of course, humiliated,\u201d Zuberi previously told Phillips. \u201cI have no excuse for what I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Zuberi has also been accused of putting together meetings with U.S. and foreign politicians as well as being behind a straw donor plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cEveryone wants to come to Washington to meet people,\u201d Zuberi said in a decade-old email in which he was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/528077-top-donor-allegedly-sold-access-to-key-politicians-for-millions-in-foreign-cash\/\"><u>attempting to put together<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;a meeting between the president of Guinea and a congressman, according to the AP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe get request(s) for meeting(s) from all scumbag of the world, warlords, kings, queens, presidents for life, military dictators, clan chiefs, tribal chiefs and etc.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The New York Times previously reported that Zuberi donated over $1.1 million in the three months following Trump\u2019s first election to committees linked with the president and the GOP after previously backing former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/barack-obama\/\"><u>President Obama\u2002<\/u><\/a>and former Secretary of State&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\/\"><u>Hillary Clinton\u2002<\/u><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/428675-federal-prosecutors-looking-into-dem-donor-who-switched-to-backing\/\"><u>in her 2016 bid for the presidency<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5323053-trump-commutes-sentence-for-donor-imaad-zuberi\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2002has commuted the sentence of top political donor&nbsp;Imaad Zuberi,&nbsp;who&nbsp;had been sentenced&nbsp;to 12 years in prison in 2021 after giving illegal campaign contributions to former&nbsp;President Biden\u2002and Sen.&nbsp;Lindsey Graham\u2002(R-S.C.). A White House official confirmed Trump commuted his sentence to The Hill\u2019s sister network NewsNation on Wednesday. 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