President Donald Trump issued a pardon Tuesday for Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke, roughly five months after the administration’s Department of Justice indicted the Climate Pledge Arena developer on bid-rigging charges.

A federal grand jury indicted Leiweke in early July after the DOJ alleged he had conspired with a competitor’s CEO to rig the bidding process to develop and manage the Moody Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

At the time of his indictment, Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater said in a news release that Leiweke had “deprived a public university and taxpayers of the benefits of competitive bidding.”

“The Antitrust Division and its law enforcement partners will continue to hold executives who cheat to avoid competition accountable,” she said.

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