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While serving in the House, Becerra participated in what a 2002 congressional report coined “Pardongate” when he lobbied the Clinton administration for clemency on behalf of a man whose father had donated over $15,000 to Becerra’s campaigns. His “advocacy” effort, as described by then-White House Council, was successful, and on his last day in office, Clinton pardoned Carlos Vignali, a man sentenced in 1994 to 15 years for drug trafficking.