NFL and Crime

President Trump pardoned five former NFL players — Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon — for past federal convictions including perjury, drug trafficking and counterfeiting. The list includes Klecko, whose 1993 perjury conviction was tied to insurance fraud, and Cannon, who was sentenced in 1983 to five years for his role in a roughly $6 million counterfeiting scheme. The move comes amid a broader clemency pattern in Trump’s second term that includes more than 1,500 Jan. 6–related pardons and nearly 100 other pardons.