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Inmate with 835-year sentence turns to Trump ally

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Dec. 4, 2020

As President Trump considers preemptive pardons for his inner circle, one ally has disclosed that he's spent the last few months seeking clemency for a man serving the country's longest white-collar prison sentence.

Brett Tolman is working on behalf of Sholam Weiss, who is less than two decades into his 835 year prison sentence. Tolman, a former U.S. Attorney for Utah, last month made headlines for providing the Trump campaign with research to support its claims of election fraud.

According to Tolman's recent disclosure, which his firm filed months late, his work for Weiss began in May.

Weiss was convicted of money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud in 2000. He is serving time in the Otisville, N.Y. federal prison where former Trump attorney Michael Cohen spent two years for tax evasion.