2026年6月24日 / 美国东部时间早上6:00 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
特朗普重返总统职位后，其前竞选团队和政府官员中的一批人创立了一家联邦游说事务所。已注册了众多企业客户的莫战略咨询公司（Mo Strategies）如今正进军新近利润丰厚的赦免业务领域。
业务蒸蒸日上。
今年5月底披露的联邦游说备案文件显示，这家与特朗普有关联的事务所已签约为北弗吉尼亚州的布莱辛格律师事务所（Blessinger Legal）就“移民及赦免相关事宜”开展游说。莫战略咨询公司总裁马蒂·奥布斯特（Marty Obst）在接受采访时表示，这项合作已经为公司带来了50万美元的收入，且预计还会有更多业务。
“我们是华盛顿特区增长最快的事务所之一，正协助他们理清相关环境和流程，”奥布斯特对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻说，“我一直努力做的是提供指导，说明整个流程是怎样的，以及哪些类型的案件会受到本届白宫的青睐。”
他补充道：“赦免和减刑既有法律程序，也有政治程序。”
赦免业务反映出，在特朗普的第二任期内，一个由人脉广泛的说客、律师和影响人士组成的、为总统赦免事宜奔走的小型产业已经蓬勃发展。特朗普已赦免或减刑了多名被起诉的盟友，以及那些雇佣与总统有联系人员的人。
备案文件中显示为布莱辛格律师事务所的说客之一的奥布斯特，是一名资深政治战略家，曾在特朗普2016年和2020年的竞选团队中担任高级职务，还曾担任前副总统迈克·彭斯的高级顾问。另一名说客罗伯特·戈德（Robert Goad）曾在特朗普首届政府期间担任总统国内政策特别助理，并为特朗普2016年竞选团队制定过教育政策。
披露50万美元收入的备案文件显示，莫战略咨询公司今年曾就此事向白宫和司法部进行游说。白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特（Karoline Leavitt）在一份声明中表示，特朗普“认为任何人试图利用赦免牟利都是令人憎恶的”，并称本届政府在将赦免申请提交总统之前，有“严格的审查程序”。
司法部的一名发言人表示，该部赦免办公室“已收到创纪录数量的减刑申请”，并将对这些申请进行审查，“以便向总统提出一致、公正且维护法治的建议”。
“这一长期以来的程序没有任何偏离，”该发言人补充道。
布莱辛格律师事务所由艾琳·布莱辛格（Eileen Blessinger）创立，她是一名执业移民律师，曾在美国移民法院、庇护办公室和国务院代理过案件。她的事务所专门处理驱逐程序、就业类签证等相关业务。
奥布斯特表示，在特朗普政府推行移民打击政策期间，布莱辛格联系他寻求新政策方面的指导，并请他审核数十名客户的案件，以确定哪些案件有可能获得赦免。他补充说，布莱辛格的部分案件涉及刑事法庭程序，包括被判有罪的绿卡持有者，但部分赦免工作也可能与移民无关。
“拜登政府大幅扩大了政府管控范围，有时甚至不公平，”奥布斯特对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻说，但并未举出具体事例。“在某些案件中，检方手段极其激进，看似带有强烈的政治色彩。有些案件确实需要进一步审查。至于他们能否获得赦免——这一点无法保证。”
总部位于印第安纳波利斯的莫战略咨询公司，自特朗普连任以来已与多家公司签订了游说合同，备案文件显示，这些公司每个申报周期支付的费用最高可达53万美元。报酬最高的客户是中国科技集团腾讯的美国子公司腾讯美国，奥布斯特曾协助该公司应对美国贸易和国防政策方面的事务。其他客户包括佛罗里达州的NextEra能源公司、代表美国大麻行业在华盛顿特区进行游说的Team Hemp、塞尔维亚共和国，以及最近的布莱辛格律师事务所，根据联邦备案文件显示。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的分析显示，布莱辛格律师事务所单个申报周期内上报的50万美元收入，是美国参议院数据库中披露的金额最高的赦免相关游说业务之一。在特朗普第二任期内，该领域已有超过20份游说注册记录，但记录显示，其中只有极少数在获得赦免之前完成了相关备案。（布莱辛格拒绝就此次报道置评。）
金额最高的一笔为96万美元，由政治操盘手杰克·伯克曼（Jack Burkman）和雅各布·沃尔（Jacob Wohl）去年披露，他们代表的是养老院经营者约瑟夫·施瓦茨（Joseph Schwartz）。施瓦茨承认了一项价值近3900万美元的薪资税欺诈计划相关指控，在服完三年刑期的三个月后，他获得了特朗普的赦免。
施瓦茨的赦免案是参众两院民主党人正在调查的多起案件之一，作为更广泛的赦免调查以及所谓“付费换特权”现象的一部分，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻报道称。如果民主党在国会两院中期选举中赢得多数席位，特朗普的赦免举措预计将成为其监督工作的重点。
“我正在为国会可能发起的监督做准备，因此我们做出的任何参与决定，都将确保其符合标准，”奥布斯特在谈及自己的赦免游说业务时表示。
A Trump-linked firm is lobbying for pardons. Its first client already paid $500,000.
June 24, 2026 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News
When President Trump returned to power, a group of his former campaign and administration officials started a federal lobbying practice. Mo Strategies, which has registered an array of corporate clients, is now expanding into the newly-lucrative world of pardons.
Business is booming.
The Trump-linked firm has signed on to lobby for the law firm Blessinger Legal in Northern Virginia for “immigration and pardon-related discussions,” federal lobbying disclosures in late May show. The engagement has already yielded the firm $500,000 in income, and more work is expected, Marty Obst, president of Mo Strategies, said in an interview.
“We’re one of the fastest-growing firms in D.C., and are helping them navigate the landscape and process,” Obst told CBS News. “What I’ve tried to do is provide guidance of what the process looks like, and what types of cases would appeal to this White House.”
He added, “There’s a legal process and a political process for pardons and clemency.”
The pardon work reflects how a cottage industry of well-connected lobbyists, lawyers and influencers who advocate on presidential clemency has flourished during Mr. Trump’s second term. Mr. Trump has pardoned or commuted prison sentences for a number of his allies who were prosecuted, as well as those who hired people with ties to the president.
Obst, who is listed as one of the lobbyists for Blessinger Legal on disclosures, is a longtime political strategist who held senior roles on Mr. Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, and was a senior adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence. The other lobbyist, Robert Goad, worked in the first Trump White House as a special assistant to the president on domestic policy and developed education policy for Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The filing that listed the $500,000 in income said that Mo Strategies lobbied the White House and the Justice Department for the law firm this year. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Mr. Trump “finds it detestable that anyone would even attempt to profit off pardons” and that the administration has a “rigorous review process” before applications reach the president’s desk.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department said that its pardon office “has received a record number of applications for clemency” and will review them “to make recommendations to the president that are consistent, unbiased, and uphold the rule of law.”
“There has been no departure from this longstanding process,” the spokesperson added.
Blessinger Legal was founded by Eileen Blessinger, an attorney who practices immigration law and has litigated cases before U.S. immigration courts, asylum offices and the State Department. Her firm specializes in removal proceedings and employment-based visas, among other areas.
As Mr. Trump’s administration pursued an immigration crackdown, Obst said Blessinger contacted him for guidance on new policies and to have him review dozens of her clients’ cases to determine which might be viable for a potential pardon. Some of Blessinger’s cases have a criminal court component, including green-card holders who were convicted of a crime, though some of the pardon work could be for non-immigration-related cases, he added.
“The Biden administration really expanded government reach, sometimes unfairly,” Obst told CBS News, without citing specifics. “In some cases, there were very aggressive prosecutions that seemed highly political. There are cases that qualify as needing further review. Whether or not they get a pardon — there are no guarantees to that.”
Based in Indianapolis, Mo Strategies has inked lobbying contracts since Mr. Trump’s reelection with companies that have paid as much as $530,000 per filing period, disclosures show. The highest-paying client has been Tencent America, the U.S. subsidiary of Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent, which Obst has helped to navigate U.S. trade and defense policy. Other clients have been NextEra Energy in Florida; Team Hemp, which represents the American hemp industry in D.C.; the Serb Republic and — most recently — Blessinger Legal, according to federal disclosures.
The $500,000 income reported in a single period for Blessinger Legal represents one of the largest pardon-related disclosures in the U.S. Senate’s database, according to a CBS News analysis. There have been over two dozen lobbying registrations in this area during Mr. Trump’s second term, though only a tiny fraction have preceded clemency, records show. (Blessinger declined to comment for this story).
The largest amount, at $960,000, was disclosed last year by political operatives Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl on behalf of Joseph Schwartz — a nursing home operator who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a nearly $39 million payroll tax fraud scheme. Schwartz had served just three months of his three-year prison sentence when he received a pardon from Mr. Trump.
The Schwartz pardon is one of several that Senate and House Democrats are looking into as part of a broader investigation into clemency and alleged “pay-to-play” dynamics, CBS News reported. Should Democrats win a majority in the midterm elections in either chamber of Congress, Mr. Trump’s clemency is expected to be a focus of their oversight efforts.
“I’m preparing for potential oversight from Congress, and so any decisions we make to engage, we are going to make sure it passes muster,” Obst said about his pardon work.
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