Will he give them some comfort

Agreed

I am not knowing in details the sort of crimes that lead to Kerik conviction, however, this man has many points that need to stop on his behaviours during his life (specially Kerik dubbed himself the “interim interior minister of Iraq.” British police advisors called him the “Baghdad terminator,”that may rise many questions about why he convicted.

That second article you linked is not accessible.

It works, I tested from my end….

The link here

https://www.salon.com/2004/12/09/kerik_6/

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/president_trumps_list_of_pardons_and_grants_of_clemency_make_a_lot_of_sense.html

What’s the thread tying all of these pardons and commutations together? In fact, there are a few threads, and they’re all important.

DeBartolo, Milken, Kerik, Pogue, and Safavian all fell into federal traps. Each was entangled in the federal justice system because the government went after them for violating rules that relate solely to the government itself. Their situations parallel what happened to Trump associates caught in Mueller’s net.

In Milken’s case, he gave up fighting an esoteric allegation only because prosecutors threatened his brother — which mirrors the way Mueller’s team threatened Mike Flynn’s son.

Trump reminds us that the government writes the laws and regulations, and then uses those laws against people whom the government wants to destroy, whether righteously (e.g., Al Capone, brought down on tax fraud) or not (e.g., the people Trump pardoned). These pardons remind us that while Trump survived, many of his associates did not.

David Safavian reminds us that McCabe walked free. Blagojevich reminds us that Trump not only doesn’t prosecute people because of their ideology, but will also reach across party lines to grant clemency.

The pardons and commutations for lesser-known people emphasize Trump’s outreach to black and Hispanic communities through his First Step Act.

Trump is a very sane genius.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/02/blago-is-back-trump-commutes-sentence-of-former-illinois-governor-rod-blagojevich/

I watched the 3+ – minute video from Chicago’s own WGN, and I’m glad I did. I’d more-or-less assumed that Blago was yet another Dirty Dem Ill. Gov., but the video convinces me that I may have been dead wrong on that. If so, speaking as one who usually votes for a Dem as dogcatcher so that the Dems won’t think I’m so stupid as to make a habit of knee-jerk voting the straight Heffalump tickets (ditto for the Pachyderm Parade of course)*, I’m downright proud of our current Pres.’s commutation.

Per vid: Blago was charged, by good ol’ Patrick Fitzgerald, on 24 counts; hung jury on 23 of them; convicted of “lying to the Feds/FBI [I already forgot which]) and for this he gets 24 years! in the slammer — give me a break! What about other lowlifes [“lowlives”?] like Comey … and … and … and the list goes on … ?

*[She said, speaking factual truth as to the voting, but nevertheless with tongue firmly in cheek as to the reasoning behind it. Merely scratches a completely irrevelant, incompetent, and immaterial itch, to swipe a quote from a very famous writer of legal whodunits back when dinosaurs roamed. By the way — UT has many of his books as audiobooks, for those who miss P.M.

‘Scuse me now while I read Prof. Jacobson’s piece.

Thanks again, Aesop.

That second article you linked is not accessible.

But just the title tells it all – meaning, the author is untrustworthy, because Trump is certainly not “as corrupt as they come.” Not even remotely close.

Here’s Kerik’s prosecution history. And here’s another article about it. Trump doesn’t appear to be saying that Kerik was wrongly convicted, by the way. The pardon came because of his other work since conviction.

The two faces of Bernard Kerik

Tim if you let me to point to one of them former New York City police commissioner Bernard B. Kerik, his history and his sentence clearly not “wrongly convicted or overly punished”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-kerik-was-as-corrupt-as-they-come-just-like-trump

Criminal justice at the federal level needs to be focused on combatting fraud, contraband trade, illegal immigration, racketeering, espionage, and species of bribery. No need to be manufacturing offenses out of banal activity, nor for pre-empting state prosecutors and investigators a propos of nothing you can defend. While we’re at it, why does the FBI have it’s nose in so many matters? We have state police services to provide technical aid to local law enforcement.