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	[quote name="Mysferio"]Frump pardons criminals Trump pardoned Joshua Davis, whom the official said was on probation. In 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement collectively with Davis and several Illinois businesses requiring them “to stop manufacturing, selling, offering to sell, and installing devices that bypass, defeat, or render inoperative EPA-approved emission controls and harm air quality, commonly referred to as Aftermarket Defeat Devices.” The defendants were ordered to pay $600,000. Matt Geouge was pardoned after being sentenced “for conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act” by selling “defeat devices,” according to a 2022 news release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina. He was also sentenced for tax evasion. Another pardon was offered to Jonathan Achtemeier, who was sentenced for conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act and pleaded guilty to tampering “with the monitoring devices on hundreds of vehicles nationwide so those trucks would not detect that their owners removed pollution control hardware systems,” according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Washington. Tim Clancy, who was sentenced for crimes related to tampering with emissions monitoring devices, according to the US attorney’s office for the District of Oregon, was also pardoned today. Ryanand Wade Lalone were also pardoned by Trump. According to a news release from the US attorney’s office in western Michigan, the Lalones were each sentenced to one year of probation as part of a case targeting a scheme to disable emissions controls on semi-trucks. Barry Pierce, Aaron Rudolf, Adam Kidan (Convicted of conspiracy and fraud related to a counterfeit casino purchase), Mackenzie Spurlock and Jack Harvard (Convicted of bank fraud in the 1980s) are the names of the other individuals pardoned by Trump today. [/quote]