Jay-Z's associate pardoned by Trump

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The White House has announced that Jay-Z’s longtime friend and Roc Nation executive Emory Jones has been pardoned.

Jones’ pardon came on Sept. 3 as one of President Trump’s newly issued clemency grants. Thirty were given in total to a wide range of people, including a Navy sailor who’d been imprisoned for firearms offenses and a Philadelphia union boss.

Jones was sentenced to almost 16 years in prison in 2000 due to federal cocaine charges. In 2010, Jay-Z wrote a letter to U.S. District Judge Benson Legg, making clear that he would offer Jones a job to show that his friend would have a stable re-entry plan upon release.  Judge ended up reducing Jones' sentence by 37 months. After he got out in 2016, Jones joined Roc Nation as the Head of Lifestyle and also co-founded the Paper Planes apparel brand.

Johnson, the White House Pardon Czar, posted on Instagram about the pardons, highlighting Jones specifically.

“Emory Jones…served nearly 16 years in federal prison and came home determined to build a different life,” she wrote. “Today he is an entrepreneur and creative leader whose journey reminds us how much people can grow—and how much good they can still do.”

Trump’s pardon of Emory Jones marks his second pardon of a Jay-Z affiliate. The first was Roc Nation CEO Desiree Perez.

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Now we know why they sat at the same table with their bff Ivanka 

 

 

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Their links to Trump are so clear and yet their fans won't stop giving them thousands of dollars for ugly wooden boxes...The only wooden boxes we should be paying for are the ones these fascists are buried in. I hate conservatives but I hate hypocritical "democrats" even more

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