WASHINGTON —

President Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and a onetime aide of public corruption charges after the White House said the Biden administration Justice Department "significantly over-prosecuted" both for a minor issue.

Video above: George Santos interviewed after Trump commutes sentence

Former Republican state Rep. Glen Casada was sentenced in September to three years in prison, and his former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, was also convicted and received a 2 1/2-year sentence. The case centered on their actions after both had been driven from their leadership roles and were accused in a scheme to win taxpayer-funded mail business from lawmakers.

The moves continued a pattern of Trump, a Republican, using his second term to bestow unlikely pardons

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