Less than six months after the Department of Justice indicted Tim Leiweke for allegedly orchestrating a bid-rigging scheme, President Trump has officially pardoned the former entertainment executive.

According to ABC News, Leiweke received his pardon on Dec. 2. A federal grand jury previously indicted him for “orchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university in Austin, Texas.”

Head of DOJ’s antitrust division, Abigail Slater, shared in a press release at the time, “As outlined in the indictment, the Defendant rigged a bidding process to benefit his own company and 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 a

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