The super-rich have discovered that the new Donald Trump administration is happy to speak to lobbyists, including those fighting for pardons or clemency for those in prison.
NOTUS reported Friday that there are at least a dozen searching for freedom from the big house, using lobbyists to get to the president.
There is currently a former utilities executive, a scam PAC operator and a rapper looking to score release.
"Among them: Anne Pramaggiore, the former CEO of Illinois utility giant Commonwealth Edison, who paid Crossroads Strategies $80,000 last quarter for 'advising on public policy and legislative matters relevant to the pardon process,'" NOTUS reported.
Pramaggiore was part of a bribery scheme with the Speaker of the Illinois House and was convicted of nine charges before being sent to prison for two years. She then hired Crossroads Strategies to run a pardon effort.
JM Burkman & Associates were recruited because Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl have a history with their own "illegal robocall scheme."
Boosie Badazz, whose real name is Torence Ivy Hatch Jr., is using their company to fight for a pardon over gun charges he pleaded guilty to in August.
"The firm received $960,000 during the second quarter to '[seek] a federal pardon' for Joseph Schwartz, a former nursing home executive sentenced this spring to three years in prison for a $38 million tax-fraud scheme," the report added.
Tim McPhee, who pleaded guilty in August to a "multimillion-dollar investment scheme," is now paying them to lobby on "DOJ issues."
When NOTUS asked the company whether "DOJ issues" are pardons, they received no response.
"Efforts to connect with Vogel Group client Komal Patel, who in August hired the firm to lobby for clemency and paid $100,000 last quarter, were unsuccessful," too, the report said.
The son of Dr. Shallfdeen Amuwo is evidently in prison, and his father hired the Adomi Advisory Group to "lobby to commute the sentence," the documents showed.
Trump ally Roger Stone is also getting in on the action, registering to be a lobbyist and scoring a nearly $50 million contract "as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice to resolve charges of tax evasion" by so-called "Bitcoin Jesus" Roger Ver.
Trump's ex-bodyguard, Keith Schiller, registered to lobby for his company Javelin Advisors. Among the clients is Fred Daibes, who was convicted of bribing former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife. According to the documents, he's paying Schiller to acquire "executive relief."
Trump has been on a roll over his first 10 months in office, handing out pardons and commutations. There was a short pause between the last pardon and the commutation of former Rep. George Santos (R-NY). The report said it could be part of an effort to tamp down bad "optics" because there "might be [lobbyists] profiting from the pardon industry," NBC News reported last week.
NOTUS walked through a long list of those identified in lobbying reports who mentioned similar issues.
They had talked about going light on pardons so they could make a massive showing of "liberation" over the Fourth of July weekend, one person told NOTUS. But the plan never fully manifested.

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