Find Out Why This Yankees Legend Just Received a Presidential Pardon!
President Donald Trump pardons former Major League Baseball All Star Darryl Strawberry.
Darryl Strawberry played 17 seasons of professional baseball. New Yorkers tend to embrace Strawberry's time as a New York Met (1983 -1990) or as a New York Yankee (1995-1999) but he also spent time with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. Today "straw" is a free man in more ways than one.
President Trump has pardoned Darryl Strawberry on past tax evasion and drug charges. The President credits Strawberry's post-career embrace of his Christian faith and longtime sobriety as some of the factors that lead to the pardon.
On December 9, 1994, Strawberry was indicted on one count of income tax conspiracy and two counts of tax evasion for failing to pay $146,000 in income taxes. On February 10, 1995, Strawberry pled guilty to one count of tax evasion. Today Strawberry has been pardoned for this 1995 tax evasion conviction.
Thank you, President Donald Trump, for my full pardon and for finalizing this part of my life, allowing me to be truly free and clean from all of my past. This has nothing to do with politics, it’s about a Man, President Trump, caring deeply for a friend. God used him as a vessel to set me free forever! I’m Free, I’m Free; I’m So Humbled And Thankful. - Darryl Strawberry
According to Strawberry's Instagram page, a call came in around 4:30p on Thursday. The woman on the other end said "Darryl Strawberry, you have a call from the President of the United States, Donald Trump."
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