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2023年3月8日，美国前众议员斯蒂芬·拜尔抵达纽约市曼哈顿区美国法院出席其内幕交易审判。路透社/布伦丹·麦克德莫特 摄
华盛顿6月5日路透电 —— 唐纳德·特朗普总统已赦免印第安纳州共和党籍前众议员斯蒂芬·拜尔。拜尔于2018年作为美国电信运营商T-Mobile美国公司顾问时，在该公司与斯普林特公司达成230亿美元并购交易前从事内幕交易，因此被判证券欺诈罪名成立。
这份于周四发布、周五由白宫宣布的赦免声明，未给出赦免的具体理由，仅称拜尔担任美国陆军军法署官员和国会议员的经历“杰出且成效卓著”。
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声明还表示，特朗普在对拜尔作出“全面、完整且无条件的赦免”时，依据了赦免声明中列出的52名现任及前任参众议员的“建议和推荐”。
拜尔于1993年至2011年以印第安纳州共和党人身份在众议院任职，之后担任企业顾问。他在2023年3月被判四项证券欺诈罪名成立，并于同年9月被判处22个月监禁。
检方在庭审中指出，拜尔从一名T-Mobile高管处获悉两家电信企业正在进行并购谈判后，于2018年买入斯普林特公司股票，并于次年再次进行非法交易。
根据检方说法，拜尔通过斯普林特股票交易获利逾10万美元，并在2019年纳维恩特咨询公司被盖德豪斯收购前买入该公司股票，获利逾20万美元。
曾在1999年前总统比尔·克林顿的弹劾审判中担任众议院经理之一的拜尔，在自己的庭审中出庭作证并否认利用内幕信息进行交易。
检方在法庭文件中要求判处拜尔三年监禁，称其滥用客户信任并在法庭上作伪证。
美国最高法院于今年5月拒绝受理拜尔对其定罪的上诉。
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Trump pardons former US congressman convicted of securities fraud
June 6, 2026 1:58 AM UTC / Reuters
Former U.S. Congressman Stephen Buyer arrives for his insider trading trial at the United States Courthouse in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has pardoned former U.S. Representative Stephen Buyer, an Indiana Republican, who was convicted of securities fraud for engaging in insider trading in 2018 as a T-Mobile US consultant ahead of a $23 billion merger with Sprint.
The proclamation, issued on Thursday and announced by the White House on Friday, gave no specific rationale for the pardon other than to assert that Buyer’s service as a U.S. Army judge advocate general and member of Congress “was distinguished and highly productive.”
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It also said that Trump, in granting Buyer a “full, complete and unconditional pardon,” was acting on the “advice and recommendation” of 52 current and former members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives listed in the proclamation.
Buyer served in the House as a Republican from Indiana between 1993 and 2011 before working as a corporate consultant. He was found guilty in March of 2023 on four counts of securities fraud, and was sentenced in September of that year to 22 months in prison.
Prosecutors said at trial that Buyer bought Sprint stock after learning from a T-Mobile executive that the telecommunications companies were in merger talks in 2018 and made illegal trades again the following year.
According to prosecutors, Buyer made more than $100,000 from the Sprint trades and more than $200,000 from buying stock in Navigant Consulting Inc. before it was acquired by Guidehouse in 2019.
Buyer, who had served as one of the House managers in the 1999 impeachment trial of then-President Bill Clinton, took the stand at his own trial and denied trading on inside information.
Prosecutors sought three years in prison for Buyer in court filings, saying that he had abused his clients’ trust and lied on the stand.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused in May of this year to hear Buyer’s appeal of his conviction.
Reporting by Steve Gorman and Christian Martinez; Editing by Kim Coghill
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