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\n President Donald Trump issued a \u201cfull and unconditional pardon\u201d for Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke, who was indicted by the president\u2019s own Justice Department earlier this year, according to a document released online<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n A federal grand jury indicted<\/a> Leiweke, then the CEO of the live entertainment group, in July for \u201corchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university in Austin, Texas,\u201d according to a press release from the Justice Department announcing the indictment.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cAs 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,\u201d assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater said in a statement at the time.\n <\/p>\n \n The pardon is dated Tuesday.\n <\/p>\n \n Leiweke was represented by Trump ally Trey Gowdy, who had lobbied the Justice Department to drop the case or grant him clemency, according to a person familiar with the situation.\n <\/p>\n \n The former executive previously criticized Trump as the world\u2019s \u201csingle greatest Con man\u201d and praised former Vice President Mike Pence for \u201cstanding up and fighting for the Constitution,\u201d according to since-deleted tweets of his.\n <\/p>\n \n celebrity.land has reached out to Leiweke, Gowdy, and the White House for comment.\n <\/p>\n \n The pardon is the latest in a series of surprising clemency moves in recent days, with Trump previously announcing the erasure of a major US drug-trafficking conviction for former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez <\/a>and a \u201cfull and unconditional\u201d pardon for Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar<\/a> and his wife, Imelda, who faced bribery charges.\n <\/p>\n \n The news comes just one day after the Oak View Group named a new permanent chief executive officer after Leiweke resigned from the post following his indictment, according to a release.<\/a> <\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Donald Trump issued a \u201cfull and unconditional pardon\u201d for Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke, who was indicted by the president\u2019s own Justice Department earlier this year, according to a document released online. A federal grand jury indicted Leiweke, then the CEO of the live entertainment group, in July for \u201corchestrating a conspiracy to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2186122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trump-pardons-former-top-entertainment-executive-who-was-charged-by.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186123,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186121\/revisions\/2186123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}