Trump pardoned a tax cheat. But only after his mom attended president’s $1 million dinner. Paul Walczak’s application for clemency argues he was prosecuted because his mother, Elizabeth Fago ...

Paul Walczak submitted his application for a pardon days after Trump’s inauguration. It noted that his mother, Elizabeth Fago, had raised millions of dollars for the president’s campaigns, as ...

President Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, a man who had pleaded guilty to tax crimes, one month after his mother attended a major fundraiser for the president, according to a new report from The New ...

Still, weeks went by and no pardon was forthcoming, even as Mr. Trump issued clemency grants to hundreds of other allies. Then, Ms. Fago was invited to a $1-million-per-person fund-raising dinner ...

Elizabeth Fago (left) attended a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago in April. Three weeks later her son Paul Walczak (right) received a full and unconditional pardon from President Trump.

Then, Walczak’s mother, Elizabeth Fago, was invited to a “candlelight” fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago. According to the invitation, Trump appeared as a guest speaker at the event.

His mother Elizabeth Fago — a health care entrepreneur who'd also been dinged by the IRS for skimping on payroll taxes — sold her $12.5 million Jupiter waterfront estate.

He pleaded guilty last fall, but applied for a pardon after Donald Trump retook office, claiming that he’d been prosecuted because of his mother Elizabeth Fago’s support for Trump.

Fago, her daughter, nor anyone at Project Veritas were ever charged. Donald Trump's members-only Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, where Elizabeth Fago attended a MAGA Inc. fundraiser (Getty ...

Fago, her daughter, nor anyone at Project Veritas were ever charged. Donald Trump's members-only Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, where Elizabeth Fago attended a MAGA Inc. fundraiser (Getty ...