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The parties were convicted and sentenced in late 2023 and early 2024 for a scheme to disable the emissions controls on hundreds of semi-trucks.
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including a former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and nine people identified by the White House as having helped people bypass emissions control systems on vehicles.
Ryan Lalone, owner of Diesel Freak LLC of Gaylord, and brother and employee Wade Lalone, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act.
Trump granted full pardons to six people, calling the prosecutions "weaponization." The people granted clemency have not yet been identified.
“It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration," Trump said.
As the Trump administration pulls back from enforcing diesel emissions laws, the president says the pardons are just common sense.
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Trump Pardons 9 Aftermarket Diesel Emissions Violators, Claims Several Were Just 'Fixing Their Car'
The president claimed six of those pardoned were persecuted for simply "fixing their car" in a post on Truth Social.
Diddy gets shut out of Trump's pardon list again, leaving the music mogul to serve his full sentence without presidential intervention or clemency.
President Donald Trump pardoned 11 people, including nine Clean Air Act violators, claiming they were just "fixing their car" with defeat devices.
Mackenzie Spurlock pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act. Sen. Dan Sullivan celebrated the pardon, saying the devices don't work in cold climates.
