Trump pardons baseball legend Darryl Strawberry, convicted of tax evasion

According to a White House statement, Strawberry pleaded guilty to tax evasion and “served time and paid back taxes.”

Strawberry won the World Series with the New York Mets in 1986 and with the New York Yankees in 1996, 1998, and 1999.

Trump’s pardons in second term

Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump has issued a sweeping series of pardons, some of them controversial, while others have been questionable.

On his very first day of his second term as president, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people charged or convicted for the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Two days later, Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road, the dark web marketplace for drugs and illegal arms.

In March, Trump pardoned Trevor Milton, the founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola, who was sentenced to four years in prison for fraud. Many had questioned the impropriety of Trump pardoning Milton, as the 42-year-old and his wife had donated more than $1.8 million to the US President’s re-election campaign fund.

Last month, Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, aka CZ, the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance. In his recent CBS 60 Minutes interview, Trump said he knows nothing about the Binance founder, less than a month after he pardoned CZ.