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Mike McMahon
Retired thirty-one-year NYPD sergeant and 9/11 first responder. He received a full pardon from President Trump in November 2025, and the Second Circuit vacated the conviction in 2026.
This account is not finished, and it is not published until it is checked.
Every case page on this site is built from court filings rather than from a summary written by a supporter. That takes time. Until the docket has been read, the dates confirmed and the unfavorable facts written down alongside the favorable ones, there is nothing here worth your trust and nothing here worth publishing.
One thing on this page is already documented, and it is the ending. The clemency warrant is published by the Justice Department and can be read in full: the pardon signed 7 November 2025. It records a sentence of eighteen months, two years of supervised release and an $11,000 fine, imposed on 16 April 2025 in the Eastern District of New York.
What the warrant does not record is the thirty-one years of service that came before it, or what the years between the indictment and the pardon cost. That is what the finished page is for. Relief arrived here. It arrived late, and it did not undo what the process had already taken.
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- Court filings. Judgments, transcripts, sentencing memoranda, orders. Anything on the docket.
- Records held by former counsel. Frequently the most important documents in a case, and frequently the hardest to get.
- Facts that cut against this person. We publish those too, and a page that omits them is worthless.
In the meantime, the cases below are finished and sourced. They are the clearest picture of what this project is and how it works.