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Shortly before the end of his term in office, the elected US President Donald Trump pardoned his former campaign advisor George Papadopoulos.
As a result of Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia, he was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment for false statements to the Federal Police FBI.
"Today's pardon corrects the injustice that Mueller's team did to so many people," said the statement on Tuesday evening (local time).
Another person who had been convicted in connection with Mueller's investigation, Alex van der Zwaan, also pardoned the incumbent president.
At the end of November, Trump had already pardoned his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Trump regularly castigated the Russia investigation as a "witch hunt".
Special investigator Mueller investigated whether there were agreements between the Trump camp and Russia in the 2016 election campaign.
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Trump also pardoned two former Republican MPs, Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter.
Trump also pardoned four US military veterans who were held responsible for the deaths of several Iraqi civilians in 2007 because of a deployment in Baghdad for the then private security company Blackwater.
Blackwater employees opened fire with machine guns from their armored vehicles in a busy square in Baghdad in 2007.
The defense argued at the time that the men acted in self-defense after their convoy was shot at by rebels.
The US government had hired Blackwater to do personal protection in Iraq.
Republican Trump was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden in the November 3rd election, but will remain president with full powers until January 20th.
Former presidents such as Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama also used the right to issue pardons up to their last days in office.
Even then, there were always controversial cases.