Trump pardons five former NFL players and others including corporate Clean Air Act defendant

Trump pardoned five former NFL players on February 12, 2026 — Joe Klecko (Jets, perjury), Jamal Lewis (Ravens, cocaine facilitation), Travis Henry (cocaine distribution), Nate Newton (Cowboys, marijuana), and Billy Cannon (LSU Heisman winner, posthumous counterfeiting). Pardons also went to Timothy Smith (IRS fraud) and Elite Diesel Service Inc., a corporate entity pardoned for Clean Air Act violations. Elite Diesel represented one of the rare instances of a corporation receiving executive clemency, continuing a pattern of nullifying Clean Air Act enforcement through pardons.