Pardons, clemency, and official actions that tracked donations, family business, or personal loyalty, and the access sold around them.
About the tiers. Tier A: an official record establishes what makes the conduct corruption, such as a court, inspector general, GAO or congressional finding; the government's or the president's own documents or words; or a filing the law requires to be made to a federal regulator. Tier B: the conduct is documented by independent reporting or disclosures, but no official record establishes it. We publish both, labeled.