Donald Trump Pardons Entertainment Executive Tim Leiweke
Key Points:
- Former live entertainment executive Tim Leiweke received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump just five months after being charged by the Justice Department for allegedly rigging the bidding process for a public arena contract in Texas.
- Leiweke was indicted under the Sherman Antitrust Act for orchestrating a scheme starting in 2018 to get a rival company to withdraw its bid for the Moody Center arena at the University of Texas at Austin, in exchange for subcontracts.
- Oak View Group, Leiweke’s company at the time, agreed to pay $15 million in penalties, while Legends Hospitality paid $1.5 million related to the conduct alleged in the indictment.
- Leiweke and his legal team have maintained his innocence, calling the allegations legally and factually wrong,
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