Former Ocean County GOP boss George Gilmore, 71, who in April 2019 was convicted and in January 2020 sentenced to 366 days in prison for failing to pay payroll taxes and falsifying a loan application, was granted a full presidential pardon in Donald Trump’s final hours in office. A White House briefing was issued in the early hours of Wednesday, Jan. 20, announcing Trump’s 73 pardons and 70 sentence commutations.
“His tax obligation is what it is,” Gilmore’s attorney Kevin Marino said this week.
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