Yes, really. Here are the receipts.
In April 2025, Trump pardoned Paul Walczak days after sentencing for evading over $10M in taxes, including payroll taxes from nursing home workers. He bought a $2M yacht. The pardon followed days after his mother attended a $1M fundraiser.
The pardon application argued the prosecution was really about his mother's politics — then, less than three weeks after her $1 million Mar-a-Lago dinner, the pardon came through. The timeline the Times pieced together shows...
Walczak withheld $10.9 million from nursing home workers' paychecks and bought a $2 million yacht; his sentencing judge said the rich don't get a free pass. Then came his mother's invitation to a candlelight dinner hosted by MAGA Inc., and...
Original reporting: The New York Times (May 2025) broke this story; both pieces above credit and link it directly.