{"id":40472,"date":"2025-05-02T16:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/trump-white-collar-criminal-pardons-cost-public-1bn-says-ex-doj-official\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:05:43","slug":"trump-white-collar-criminal-pardons-cost-public-1bn-says-ex-doj-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/trump-white-collar-criminal-pardons-cost-public-1bn-says-ex-doj-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump white-collar criminal pardons cost public $1bn, says ex-DoJ official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former pardon attorney Liz Oyer said president erased more than \u2018$1bn in debts owed by wealthy Americans\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The justice department\u2019s pardon attorney, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/11\/doj-official-fired-mel-gibson-gun\">recently fired<\/a>, has claimed on social media that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s recent wave of pardoning white-collar criminals has erased more than \u201c$1bn in debts owed by wealthy Americans\u201d to the public purse.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lawyer.oyer\/video\/7499153750968290603\">TikTok video<\/a>, Liz Oyer, who has said that she was terminated in March after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=Oyer%2C+Gibson&amp;as_sitesearch=www.theguardian.com\">refusing<\/a> to comply with an order to restore the gun rights of the actor Mel Gibson \u2013 a supporter of Trump\u2019s \u2013 explained that \u201cwhen you\u2019re convicted of a financial crime like fraud or embezzlement, the law requires you to pay back the money that you stole. It\u2019s called restitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/02\/trump-pardons-cost-liz-oyer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former pardon attorney Liz Oyer said president erased more than \u2018$1bn in debts owed by wealthy Americans\u2019 The justice department\u2019s pardon attorney, who was recently fired, has claimed on social media that Donald Trump\u2019s recent wave of pardoning white-collar criminals has erased more than \u201c$1bn in debts owed by wealthy Americans\u201d to the public purse. &#8230; <a title=\"Trump white-collar criminal pardons cost public $1bn, says ex-DoJ official\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/trump-white-collar-criminal-pardons-cost-public-1bn-says-ex-doj-official\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump white-collar criminal pardons cost public $1bn, says ex-DoJ official\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}