US Politics
The Price of Pardon: How $50 Million and Political Access Corrupted the Clemency Process
Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan billionaire facing US bribery charges, received a drastically reduced plea deal and a later pardon after his family hired Alina Habba, a lawyer close to Donald Trump, for an extraordinarily lucrative job worth over $50 million. This sequence of events represents a blatant perversion of the rule of law, where justice appears to have been auctioned off, shattering any pretense of an impartial legal system and eroding the very bedrock of democratic integrity.
