Trump commutes sentence of Rod Blagojevich, pardons Bernie Kerik

President Trump on Tuesday said he pardoned former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik and commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was convicted of trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat following the 2008 election.

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The moves come just hours after it was announced that Trump granted clemency to former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr. for his conviction more than two decades ago in a gambling fraud scandal.

Trump told reporters about the pardons as he prepared to department Joint Base Andrews on his way to California.

Kerik, who led the department during the Sept. 11 terror attacks, pleaded guilty in November 2009 of tax fraud and of lying to White House officials who were vetting him after President George W. Bush nominated him to be Homeland Security secretary.