How Does a Fed.Law Breaker Gets a Pardon from Trump
By Jeffrey Toobin Jeffrey Toobin spoke with more than a dozen lawyers and lobbyists involved in the pardon process. New York Times Josh Nass, a lawyer and lobbyist based in New York and South Carolina, shared a warning for those seeking clemency in Donald Trump’s Washington. “There are a lot of bad actors out there, promising prospective clients that they can get pardons,” he said in the first of a series of phone calls starting in March. “You have people who are in desperate straits, and they get taken to the cleaners by people who wind up doing nothing for them.” Nass is just 34, but he has an old-school ability to talk fast, drop names and make connections. He’s known for having good contacts among both Orthodox Jews and evangelical Christians. “Republican candidates come to me to introduce them to Republican Jewish donors,” he told me. Recently, though, high-profile people have sought him out for another purpose: Nass has become one of the throng of lawyer...
