Trump pardoned Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke of a bid-rigging charge brought by his own DOJ
On December 3, 2025, President Donald Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke, former Oak View Group CEO, of a criminal Sherman Antitrust Act bid-rigging charge that Trump's own Justice Department had brought in July 2025 over the Moody Center arena project in Austin, Texas. The pardon came one day before Leiweke was scheduled to be deposed in a separate DOJ civil antitrust case against Live Nation, in which a DOJ attorney had told the court he held "unique individual knowledge." Oak View Group had donated $250,000 to Trump's 2025 inauguration, and former Rep. Trey Gowdy had lobbied Trump on Leiweke's behalf.