"The Justice Department investigated a potential “bribery-for-pardon” scheme in which a large political contribution would be offered in exchange for a presidential pardon by the WH according to court records.unsealed by Chief Judge Howell of the U.S. District Court for DC. The documents show that U.S. prosecutors were scrutinizing whether 2 individuals approached senior WH officials as unregistered lobbyists, and a related scheme in which cash would be funneled through intermediaries for a pardon or reprieve of a sentence for a defendant apparently in Federal Bureau of Prisons custody at some point."
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