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Thus far, Trump has taken no action on a pardon for Stockman. Patti Ferguson Stockman describes her husband as a “political prisoner ... who’s poured decades of his life toward preserving the liberties that were guaranteed in the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]], and he is sitting there without his own liberty. This is bigger than Steve Stockman. It’s the state of our nation. It’s Steve Stockman today; it may be your neighbor tomorrow, or even you.”<ref name=westrec/> In November 2018, Stockman was sentenced to ten years in prison.<ref>Sorace, Stephen (November 8, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-texas-congressman-steve-stockman-gets-10-years-in-prison Ex-lawmaker gets 10 years for using charity cash for dolphin-watching, hot-air balloon rides]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 8, 2018.</ref><ref>Rodriguez, Katherine (November 8, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/07/former-rep-steve-stockman-ten-years-prison-campaign-fraud/ Former Rep. Steve Stockman Gets Ten Years in Prison for Campaign Fraud]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 8, 2018.</ref>
Thus far, Trump has taken no action on a pardon for Stockman. Patti Ferguson Stockman describes her husband as a “political prisoner ... who’s poured decades of his life toward preserving the liberties that were guaranteed in the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]], and he is sitting there without his own liberty. This is bigger than Steve Stockman. It’s the state of our nation. It’s Steve Stockman today; it may be your neighbor tomorrow, or even you.”<ref name=westrec/> In November 2018, Stockman was sentenced to ten years in prison.<ref>Sorace, Stephen (November 8, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-texas-congressman-steve-stockman-gets-10-years-in-prison Ex-lawmaker gets 10 years for using charity cash for dolphin-watching, hot-air balloon rides]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 8, 2018.</ref><ref>Rodriguez, Katherine (November 8, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/07/former-rep-steve-stockman-ten-years-prison-campaign-fraud/ Former Rep. Steve Stockman Gets Ten Years in Prison for Campaign Fraud]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 8, 2018.</ref>
Like Joseph Farah, conservative stalwart [[Richard Viguerie]] has defended Stockman as a victim of judicial overreach through the order of former [[IRS]] official [[Lois Lerner]]. On January 11, 2019, Stockman filed his appeal. Viguerie defends him:
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Steve Stockman’s journey through the underbelly of the federal judicial system began when he filed a House Resolution demanding the arrest of Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress. Within two weeks of that constitutionally protected action the FBI was at then-Congressman Stockman’s door, and he became the subject of a three-year witch hunt.
It was not until the FBI used all their considerable resources to intimidate a former associate into pleading guilty and testifying against Steve that a fourth Grand Jury indicted him on charges that could have led to 283 years in prison. [Stockman is} an unyielding foe of government corruption and overreach [who] sits in a federal prison unable to work or even help his wife Patty raise the money necessary to pay for his appeal – and that’s part of the corrupt strategy being pursued by those who want to him out of public life – spend four years harassing the target and siphoning-off his resources, so that he his unable to defend himself."<ref.{{cite web|url=http://www.conservativehq.com/node/29467|title=The Persecution of Congressman Steve Stockman|publisher=Conservativehq.com|date=January 11, 2019|accessdate=January 12, 2019}}</ref></blockquote>
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