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A cybersecurity executive was pardoned by Donald Trump. His crime was a mystery.

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Donald Trump pardoned cybersecurity executive Chris Wade for crimes that had been sealed.

Wade controlled tens of thousands of hacked computers at the time.

He was accused of using the hacked computers to commit fraud.

Wade pleaded guilty to all the charges against him in July 2006 ; he was sentenced in 2011 to time served.

The very fact that Wade had a criminal past was a secret.

The New York Times asked a federal judge to unseal parts of Wade 's case, but the Justice Department wants to keep parts of the case sealed.

Wade bragged that he was able to control a "botnet" of 20,000 computers to launder spam emails.

Prosecutors may agree to seal a case when a defendant cooperates and prosecutors want to keep the relationship a secret.

Corellium may have been in a tight spot if it was asked to disclose whether its executives had criminal records.

Wade may have had skills the FBI found useful to run the spamming operation two decades ago .

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English

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