WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego issued the following press release:
Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) wrote Acting Inspector General for the Department of Justice Sean O'Neill calling for an investigation into reports that Trump administration political appointees in the office of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche may have interfered in a Department of Justice investigation into a potentially corrupt clemency scheme.
The case involves President Trump's commutation of a seven-year sentence that was being served by David Gentile, a private equity executive who was convicted of defrauding thousands of everyday investors-including many retirees. Trump's grant of clemency not only released Gentile from pr...