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Apparently Trump screwed up many of the pardons [1]

> The pardon for Paul Manafort (on Dec. 23, 2020), is illustrative. By its own terms, the pardon covers only the crimes “for his conviction” on specific charges and not any other crimes (charged or uncharged). [...] Manafort pleaded to a superseding information containing two conspiracy charges, while the entire underlying indictment — containing numerous crimes from money laundering, to witness tampering, to violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act — now remains open to prosecution as there was no conviction for those charges.

Not sure if this applies to Levandowski - I haven't seen the text of his pardon.

Update: Levandowski's pardon [2] covers "those offenses against the United States individually enumerated and set before me for my consideration." Manafort's pardon [3] lists specific convictions with docket numbers. IANAL so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://www.justsecurity.org/74241/the-gaps-in-trumps-pardon...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/file/1357121/download

[3] https://www.justice.gov/file/1349071/download




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