New Jersey businessman paid $1M to a lobbying firm to try to get a pardon from Trump

A New Jersey businessman who used gold bars to bribe former Sen. Robert Menendez paid $1 million dollars to a Washington, D.C. lobbyist to try to ask for clemency from President Donald Trump, three sources familiar with the matter said. Lobbying disclosure forms show convicted felon Fred Daibes paid Keith Schiller and his Javelin Advisors firm seeking “executive relief” for his seven-year prison sentence. “We all really know ‘executive relief’ means a pardon or shorten my sent