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Nonprofit says NC tops in US for vaccinating seniors
— The Kaiser Family Foundation ranks North Carolina as first in the nation for vaccinating people age 65 or older. The state has vaccinated 49% of its seniors, not including residents of long-term care facilities.
Robin Hayes, a former congressman and chairman of the N.C. Republican Party, was pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in a political corruption case. But others in the case, including Durham businessman Greg Lindberg, weren't pardoned.
PRESIDENT REMOVED A BEEN PUT IN PLACE, PRESENTLY ALLOWING ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS TO BEGIN LOBBYING WHEN THEY LEAVE GOVERNMENT. TRUMP TRUMP ALSO PARDONED 73 PEOPLE AND COMMUTED THE SENTENCES OF 70 OTHERS AND THIS WAS HIS LAST NIGHT AS COMMANDER- IN-CHIEF. FORMER CONGRESS MEN, ROBIN HAYES, WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO LYING TO THE FBI AND A BRIBERY STAKE WON A LAST-MINUTE PARDON OVERNIGHT FROM TRUMP. TRAVIS MAINE HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS CASE FROM THE BEGINNING. HE JOINS US NOW. TRAVIS, WAS THIS PART IN A SURPRISE? >> Reporter: NO, NOT REALLY. CERTAINLY NOT IF YOU ARE A CYNIC. IT SEEMS TO BE IN LINE WITH A LOT OF THE OTHER TRUMP PARDONS. ALSO, HAYES, AND OTHER CHAIRMEN FROM THE STATE REPUBLIC AND PARTY. HE WAS SERVING A ONE-YOUR PROBATION. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAD SAID HE WAS COOPERATIVE AND THEY ARE IN A SKINNY THE UNDERLYING BRIBERY CASE FOR THE WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN HERE IN OCHELATA. EVEN THOUGH HE'S INITIALLY LIED TO THE FBI ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THAT SCHEME, THEY GAVE HAYES THIS. THIS DOES NOT GET TRAN49 OUT OF PRISON BECAUSE HE IS STILL SERVING TIME. THIS DELETES IS, WRECKER. SENATOR THOM TILLIS, THE IN OCHELATA CONGRESSMAN HERE, FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND OF COURSE, PENCE ONE, SERVING 10 YEARS IN CONGRESS AS WELL . >> OTHERS INVOLVED IN THE CASE ONE SO LUCKY, WERE THEY? >> Reporter: THAT'S RIGHT. A MAN NAMED GREG LINDBERGH WAS CONVICTED IN THIS CASE ON TRYING TO DRIVE IN OCHELATA'S INSURANCE COMMISSIONER AND USE SOME OF THAT CASH FOR THE STATE OF PUBLIC AND PARTY THAT HE CHAIRED OF THE TIME. THERE WAS REPORTING FROM "THE NEW YORK TIMES" A WHILE BACK ABOUT WHETHER HE DID OR DID NOT COME THROUGH. WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT. HE SERVED MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS AND A SURVEY RIGHT NOW THE MINIMUM-SECURITY CAMP IN ALABAMA. ANOTHER MAN, JOHN GRAY, A CONSULTANT TIED UP IN ALL OF THIS, HIS SENTENCE WAS LESSENED AS WELL.
