The general manager of a coal mining company was among a long list of pardons rolled out by President Donald Trump on his final day in office.

According to a Jan. 20 news release, Trump granted a full pardon to Thomas "Ken" Ford, the general manager of a coal company not named in the press release. Ford has been the general manager at Alliance Resource Partners LP's River View coal mine in Kentucky, since April 2012, Alliance confirmed. The company's Chairman, President and CEO Joseph Craft has been a prolific donor to the GOP and supporter of Trump.

Ford made a material misstatement to federal mining officials 20 years ago, according to the White House release. He pleaded guilty and served a sentence of three years probation.

"Ken acknowledged and accepted the consequences of his actions, learned from his mistake and grew as a person," Alliance Resource subsidiary Alliance Coal LLC said in a prepared statement on Jan. 20.

Alliance Coal noted that Ford rose to the level of general manager at one of its competitors before joining the company. Its statement added that Ford worked on his pardon application for many years, and the company was proud to support it.

"I've learned many lessons through all of this, and one of them is that America is a great country where you can rise again after making a mistake, as long as you acknowledge and atone for that mistake with an honest heart," Ford said in a statement sent through Alliance.

"In the decades since, Mr. Ford has been an upstanding member of his community and has used this experience and his decades of expertise to keep miners safe, including promoting truthfulness and integrity with federal mining officials, for whom Mr. Ford states that he has the 'utmost respect,'" the White House press release stated.