TRUMP ISSUES PARDON TO FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN STEPHEN BUYER AFTER INSIDER TRADING CONVICTION. (PHOTO).

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Trump issues pardon to former Republican congressman Stephen Buyer after insider trading conviction    President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to former Republican congressman Stephen Buyer, who served nearly two years in prison after being convicted of insider trading tied to post-congressional consulting work. Buyer was sentenced in 2023 to 22 months in prison for illegal stock trades made while working as a consultant and lobbyist. He was ordered to forfeit more than $350,000 in ill-gotten gains and pay a $10,000 fine. He was released from custody in 2025 after his conviction was upheld, with the Supreme Court declining to take up his appeal earlier this year. In issuing the pardon, Trump described Buyer’s service as a judge advocate general in the U.S. Army and his time in Congress as “distinguished and highly productive.” The pardon, dated Thursday and released by the White House on Friday, grants Buyer “a full, complete, and unconditional pardon.” Buyer has maint...

A DEPUTY CONTROLLER OF PRISONS IN KOGI STATE,JAILED YESTERDAY FOR FRAUD.

Joseph Idachaba               Joseph Idachaba,a Deputy Controller of prisons was sentenced to seven years in prison by a High Court in Okene in Kogi state yesterday friday  for defrauding the Nigerian Prisons Service {NPS} of over N1.4million.He was arraigned alongside with Ruth Onoja,for fraudulently transferring N1.4 million from NPS bank accounts to that of a ghost staff named Mohammed Ugbede,in February.They were trailed on a three count charge of criminal conspiracy,falsehood and fraud levelled against them by the Economic and Financia Crimes Commission {EFCC}.The Judge said that the convict had initially admitted to the commission of the crime in his statement,but later turned around to deny it.The judge based his judgement on the prosecution because they proved beyond reasonable doubts  that the suspects intention was to defraud the Nigerian prisons of N1.4 million and ''To believe the story of the 1st accused in the face of the overwhelming evidence adduced by the prosecution is to believe the holiness of a bishop hanging a talisman on his neck''.

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