{"id":74532,"date":"2026-06-06T08:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/former-indiana-rep-stephen-buyer-receives-full-pardon-from-trump-for-2023-insider-trading-conviction\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:01:55","slug":"former-indiana-rep-stephen-buyer-receives-full-pardon-from-trump-for-2023-insider-trading-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/former-indiana-rep-stephen-buyer-receives-full-pardon-from-trump-for-2023-insider-trading-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Indiana Rep Stephen Buyer receives full pardon from Trump for 2023 insider trading conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House recently announced President Donald Trump<\/a> on Thursday exercised his authority under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution to grant a “full, complete, and unconditional pardon” to former Republican Indiana Rep. Stephen Buyer, who was convicted of profiting from insider information.<\/p>\n

The pardon<\/a> absolves Buyer of a 2023 federal conviction that resulted in a 22-month prison sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Buyer, who chaired the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee and served as a House prosecutor during former President Bill Clinton’s<\/a> 1998 impeachment trial, was found guilty by a jury of operating off nonpublic, insider information after he left office.<\/p>\n

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The White House proclamation praised Buyer’s “distinguished and highly productive” career, citing his service as a judge advocate general in the U.S. Army and his 1993\u20132011 tenure as a U.S. representative from Indiana.<\/p>\n

The pardon was supported by the “complete and total endorsement” of more than 50 current and former lawmakers, the White House said.<\/p>\n

Among those who endorsed the pardon included Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham<\/a> and Roger Wicker and former House Speaker John Boehner. Other supporters were former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., former Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, former Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., former Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill Jr.<\/p>\n

The proclamation directed Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to “administer and effectuate the immediate issuance of a certificate of pardon” for Buyer.<\/p>\n

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Buyer’s conviction stemmed from allegations that he purchased stock in a management company called Navigant just weeks before one of his own clients, Guidehouse, acquired it. He was then accused of buying shares of Sprint<\/a> after secretly learning about the company’s unannounced plans to merge with T-Mobile.<\/p>\n

During the proceedings, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, a Clinton nominee, argued the former congressman obstructed justice by giving the court false explanations for why he made the trades.<\/p>\n

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Buyer’s legal team pushed for a sentence of home confinement and community service rather than prison time, arguing that despite Buyer once earning up to $2.2 million in a single year, the cost of litigation had financially ruined him.<\/p>\n

According to his lawyers, Buyer and his wife were forced to sell their home, condo and two cars, and his wife had to re-enter the workforce at 65 years old.<\/p>\n

Despite the defense\u2019s efforts, Berman sentenced Buyer to 22 months in prison, ordered him to forfeit the $354,027 he made from the illegal trades and imposed an additional $10,000 fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors<\/a> also pushed for Buyer to pay $1.4 million to cover the legal fees for both sides, but the judge ruled against the request.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House recently announced President Donald Trump on Thursday exercised his authority under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution to grant a “full, complete, and unconditional pardon” to former Republican Indiana Rep. Stephen Buyer, who was convicted of profiting from insider information. The pardon absolves Buyer of a 2023 federal conviction that … 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-74532","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\/74532","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=74532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}