Trump pardons Duncan Hunter

[LaxScrutiny]

"United States congressman Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty last year to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds. In March, he was sentenced to 11 months in federal prison. What made his story especially comical was how brazen the fraud had been. Among the items listed in the indictment were European vacations for his family, stays at luxury hotels, plane tickets for his family’s pet rabbits, and $1,302 in Steam games."
https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/23/22197075/trump-presidential-pardon-duncan-hunter-steam-games

I don't mean this to become a political debate (Yeah, good luck with that Lax), but I am genuinely curious:
If someone is convicted of fraud and the money isn't collected (because, say, they spent it all) does a pardon let them off the hook for paying it back?

 

[valkyrie013]

Pardon is like it didn't happen..
All free and clear..
So this one is crap..

 

[LaxScrutiny]

Pardon is like it didn't happen..
All free and clear..
So this one is crap..

Yeah, crap. On toast with rotten mayonnaise.

 

[Non Sync]

Trump also pardoned his Hunter's estranged wife, Margaret Hunter, as well. The bulk of his pardons have been towards allies or supporters.

 

[StarCruiser]

Of course - what else would you expect from Herr Drumpf?

Egotistical
Misogynistic
Asinine
Corrupt
etc...

All appropriate descriptions for our leaderless feeder.

 

[publiusr]

Duncan at least was pro-space like Agnew and DeLay.

Nixon can stay in hell

 

[Oddish]

As conservative as I am, I sincerely believe that Donald Trump has taken an enormous messy crap on the American presidency.

 

[Australis]

^ He has. He has indeed.

 

[publiusr]

Wasn’t Hunter a space advocate at least?
Agnew was a crook and a half. But Nixon was a crook AND killed the Saturns.

The worst?

Proxmire...fucking Proxmire.

From now on—every space toilet should have the name Prox-mire

 

[LaxScrutiny]

Duncan at least was pro-space like Agnew and DeLay.
Nixon can stay in hell

As much as I'm a Trekie, I need more than pro-space. I agree Nixon can stay in hell. The rest can work through Purgatory.

 

[MacLeod]

I would say a pardon not might let someone of the hook of paying something back. A Pardon deals with the criminal aspect not the civil aspect of a crime. So a civil case could be made against a person even if that person had been pardoned ( accepting a pardon is admission of guilt).