President Trump has commuted the sentence of political donor Imaad Zuberi, who received a 12-year prison sentence in 2021 for making illegal campaign contributions to former President Biden and GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham.
A White House official confirmed the commuted sentence to NewsNation on Wednesday, The Hill news outlet reported.
In 2019 and 2020, Zuberi pleaded guilty to tax evasion, lobbying top U.S. officials while working as a foreign agent, campaign finance violations and obstruction of justice. With his prison sentence, Zuberi was also ordered to pay close to $16 million in restitution and a nearly $2 million fine.
“I’m deeply sorry and, of course, humiliated,” Zuberi previously told the judge overseeing his case. “I have no excuse for what I’ve done.”
He has also faced accusations of organizing meetings between U.S. and foreign politicians in addition to being behind a straw donor plot.
Zuberi donated over $1.1 million in the three months following Trump’s first election victory to committees linked with the president and the Republican Party, following his previous backing of former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her 2016 presidential race, The New York Times reported.
