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Trump's Second Term Pardons

A list of the pardons issues by Donald Trump during his second term.

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The Department of Justice page is the most complete official index located for Trump’s 2025-present clemency grants, and it identifies pardon dates, sentencing dates, districts, and offense labels for each named recipient. Crime categories in this article are short descriptive labels added from the offense descriptions in the official listing, such as fraud, drugs, corruption, firearms, tax, election-related, and clinic-access offenses.

January 2025

Ross William Ulbricht

  • Crime category: Drugs, money laundering, cybercrime.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York for aiding and abetting drug distribution over the internet, operating a continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking conspiracy, fraud with identification documents, and money laundering conspiracy; the official clemency listing describes the case as the Silk Road marketplace-related prosecution.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 29, 2015.
  • When pardoned: January 21, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants. Court record: United States v. Ulbricht, S.D.N.Y., 1:14-cr-00068.

Terence Dale Sutton, Jr.

  • Crime category: Violent crime, obstruction.
  • Crime: Convicted in the District of Columbia of second-degree murder, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting, arising from the Karon Hylton-Brown police pursuit case.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 12, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 22, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants. Court record: United States v. Sutton, D.D.C., 1:21-cr-00598.

Andrew Zabavsky

  • Crime category: Obstruction, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Convicted in the District of Columbia of conspiracy and obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting in the same Karon Hylton-Brown police pursuit case; the White House clemency warrant cites the indictment docket and the relevant statutes, 18 U.S.C. sections 371 and 1512.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 12, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 22, 2025; the White House warrant is dated January 22, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon warrant: White House clemency grant. Court record: United States v. Zabavsky, D.D.C., 1:21-cr-00598.

Anti-abortion clinic blockade defendants pardoned on January 23, 2025

The DOJ clemency page lists 24 pardons on January 23, 2025, all tied to prosecutions under the FACE Act, conspiracy against rights, or clinic-access obstruction theories in the District of Columbia, the Middle District of Tennessee, the Eastern District of Michigan, or the Eastern District of New York. In the entries below, these are grouped under the crime category clinic-access offenses.

Joan Bell

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights; FACE Act, involving clinic-access obstruction conduct.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 14, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Coleman Boyd

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy to obstruct access to a clinic providing reproductive health services and violation of the FACE Act.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 3, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Joel Curry

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights and clinic access obstruction.
  • When convicted: Not listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Jonathan Darnel

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights; FACE Act, involving clinic-access obstruction conduct.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 15, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Caroline Davis

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: In Tennessee, conspiracy to interfere with access to clinic entrances and aiding and abetting interference with access to clinic entrances; in Michigan, conspiracy and interference with clinic access.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 24, 2024, and September 18, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Eva Edl

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: In Tennessee, violation of the FACE Act; in Michigan, conspiracy against rights and clinic access obstruction.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 26, 2024, in Tennessee; Michigan sentencing not listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Chester Gallagher

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: In Tennessee, conspiracy to obstruct access to a clinic providing reproductive health services and violation of the FACE Act; in Michigan, conspiracy against rights and clinic access obstruction.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 26, 2024, in Tennessee; Michigan sentencing not listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Herb Geraghty

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights; FACE Act, involving clinic-access obstruction conduct.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 15, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

William Goodman

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights; FACE Act, involving clinic-access obstruction conduct.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 14, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Dennis Green

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy to obstruct access to a clinic providing reproductive health services and violation of the FACE Act.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 3, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Lauren Handy

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights; FACE Act, involving clinic-access obstruction conduct.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 14, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Paula Harlow

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights; FACE Act, involving clinic-access obstruction conduct.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 31, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

John Hinshaw

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights; FACE Act, involving clinic-access obstruction conduct.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 14, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Heather Idoni

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: In Tennessee and D.C., conspiracy against rights and FACE Act offenses; in Michigan, conspiracy against rights and clinic access obstruction.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 22, 2024, in Tennessee and May 22, 2024, in D.C.; Michigan sentencing not listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Jean Marshall

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights; FACE Act, involving clinic-access obstruction conduct.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 15, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Christopher Moscinski

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses.
  • Crime: Interference with freedom of access to reproductive health services.
  • When convicted: Sentenced June 27, 2023.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Justin Phillips

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy against rights and clinic access obstruction.
  • When convicted: Not listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Paul Place

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses.
  • Crime: Violation of the FACE Act.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 30, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Jay Smith

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses.
  • Crime: FACE Act violation involving access to reproductive health services.
  • When convicted: Sentenced August 7, 2023.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Paul Vaughn

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: Conspiracy to obstruct access to a clinic providing reproductive health services and violation of the FACE Act.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 2, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Bevelyn Beatty Williams

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses.
  • Crime: Violating the FACE Act in a prosecution from the Southern District of New York.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 24, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Calvin Zastrow

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: In Tennessee, conspiracy to obstruct access to a clinic providing reproductive health services and violation of the FACE Act; in Michigan, conspiracy against rights and clinic access obstruction.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 3, 2024, in Tennessee; Michigan sentencing not listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Eva Zastrow

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses, civil-rights-related.
  • Crime: In Tennessee, violation of the FACE Act; in Michigan, conspiracy against rights and clinic access obstruction.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 30, 2024, in Tennessee; Michigan sentencing not listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

James Zastrow

  • Crime category: Clinic-access offenses.
  • Crime: Violation of the FACE Act.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 30, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

February to June 2025

Rod R. Blagojevich

  • Crime category: Corruption, fraud, false statements.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of Illinois of multiple public-corruption offenses, including wire fraud under color of official right, attempted extortion under color of official right, bribery-related solicitation counts, and false statements; the official summary reflects the former Illinois governor corruption case.
  • When convicted: Sentenced December 7, 2011.
  • When pardoned: February 10, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants. Court record: United States v. Blagojevich, N.D. Ill., 1:08-cr-00888.

Brian Kelsey

  • Crime category: Campaign finance, fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Middle District of Tennessee of conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding and abetting the acceptance of excessive campaign contributions, tied to an unlawful campaign-finance scheme.
  • When convicted: Sentenced August 11, 2023.
  • When pardoned: March 11, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants. Court record: United States v. Kelsey, M.D. Tenn., 3:22-cr-00032.

Thomas Edward Caldwell

  • Crime category: Obstruction, election-related.
  • Crime: Convicted in the District of Columbia of tampering with documents or proceedings in a January 6-related case.
  • When convicted: Sentenced January 10, 2025.
  • When pardoned: March 20, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Devon Archer

  • Crime category: Securities fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud in a scheme that produced more than $43 million in restitution.
  • When convicted: Sentenced February 28, 2022.
  • When pardoned: March 25, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants. Court record: United States v. Archer, S.D.N.Y., 1:16-cr-00371.

Benjamin Delo

  • Crime category: Financial regulation, money laundering compliance.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to maintain required anti-money-laundering compliance for the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange.
  • When convicted: Sentenced June 15, 2022.
  • When pardoned: March 27, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants. Court record: United States v. Delo, S.D.N.Y., 1:20-cr-00500.

Gregory Dwyer

  • Crime category: Financial regulation, money laundering compliance.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of violating the Bank Secrecy Act in the BitMEX matter.
  • When convicted: Sentenced November 16, 2022.
  • When pardoned: March 27, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Arthur Hayes

  • Crime category: Financial regulation, money laundering compliance.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of violating the Bank Secrecy Act in the BitMEX matter.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 20, 2022.
  • When pardoned: March 27, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants. Court record: United States v. Hayes, S.D.N.Y., 1:20-cr-00500.

HDR Global Trading Limited

  • Crime category: Financial regulation, money laundering compliance.
  • Crime: Corporate defendant convicted in the Southern District of New York of violating the Bank Secrecy Act in the BitMEX prosecution.
  • When convicted: Sentenced January 15, 2025.
  • When pardoned: March 27, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Trevor Milton

  • Crime category: Securities fraud, wire fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of securities fraud and two wire-fraud counts for misleading investors about Nikola.
  • When convicted: Sentenced December 18, 2023.
  • When pardoned: March 27, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants. Court record: United States v. Milton, S.D.N.Y., 1:21-cr-00478.

Samuel Reed

  • Crime category: Financial regulation, money laundering compliance.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of violating the Bank Secrecy Act in the BitMEX matter.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 13, 2022.
  • When pardoned: March 27, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants. Court record: United States v. Reed, S.D.N.Y., 1:20-cr-00500.

Michele Fiore

  • Crime category: Wire fraud.
  • Crime: Charged in the District of Nevada with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and six wire-fraud counts; the DOJ clemency index lists no sentencing date, indicating the pardon came before sentencing.
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: April 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Paul Walczak

  • Crime category: Tax offenses.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of Florida of willful failure to pay trust-fund taxes and failure to file required returns or information, involving employment-tax offenses.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 11, 2025.
  • When pardoned: April 23, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Scott Howard Jenkins

  • Crime category: Corruption, bribery, honest-services fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Western District of Virginia of conspiracy to commit bribery concerning federally funded programs, honest-services mail fraud, honest-services wire fraud, and seven bribery counts tied to the sale of auxiliary deputy appointments.
  • When convicted: Sentenced March 21, 2025.
  • When pardoned: May 27, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

James Callahan

  • Crime category: False statements, labor-reporting offenses.
  • Crime: Filing false labor-union reports in the District of Columbia.
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: May 27, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

May 28, 2025 pardons

The DOJ clemency page records 16 pardons on May 28, 2025, ranging from tax and fraud cases to narcotics, firearm, and maritime-theft cases. The entries below add a short crime category to make those offense types easier to scan.

Kevin Eric Baisden

  • Crime category: Theft, bail-related offenses.
  • Crime: Multiple District of Columbia Superior Court convictions for shoplifting, second-degree theft, and a bail reform act offense.
  • When convicted: Sentenced in 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2010.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Mark Bashaw

  • Crime category: Military offenses.
  • Crime: Army conviction for violating lawful orders.
  • When convicted: 2022.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Julie Chrisley

  • Crime category: Bank fraud, tax offenses, obstruction.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of Georgia of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, five bank-fraud counts, wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States in tax matters, tax evasion, and obstruction of justice.
  • When convicted: Sentenced November 21, 2022, later amended September 25, 2024.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Todd Chrisley

  • Crime category: Bank fraud, tax offenses.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of Georgia of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, five bank-fraud counts, conspiracy to defraud the United States in tax matters, and tax evasion.
  • When convicted: Sentenced November 21, 2022.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Lawrence S. Duran

  • Crime category: Health-care fraud, money laundering.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of Florida of conspiracy to commit health-care fraud, 11 health-care-fraud counts, conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay or receive health-care kickbacks, conspiracy to commit money laundering, 18 money-laundering counts, and six structuring counts.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 16, 2011.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Kentrell D. Gaulden

  • Crime category: Firearms.
  • Crime: Utah conviction for felon in possession of a firearm.
  • When convicted: Sentenced December 10, 2024.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Michael Gerard Grimm

  • Crime category: Tax offenses.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Eastern District of New York of aiding and assisting the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 17, 2015, amended August 10, 2015.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

James M. Kernan

  • Crime category: Insurance regulation.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of New York of knowingly and willfully permitting a convicted felon to engage in the business of insurance.
  • When convicted: Sentenced January 25, 2010.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Marlene Mary Kernan

  • Crime category: Insurance regulation.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of New York of permitting a convicted felon to engage in the business of insurance.
  • When convicted: Sentenced January 25, 2010.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Tanner J. Mansell

  • Crime category: Theft.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of Florida of theft of property within special maritime jurisdiction.
  • When convicted: Sentenced February 13, 2023.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

John R. Moore, Jr.

  • Crime category: Theft.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of Florida of theft of property within special maritime jurisdiction.
  • When convicted: Sentenced February 13, 2023.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Marian I. Morgan

  • Crime category: Fraud, money laundering, tax offenses.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Middle District of Florida of conspiracy to defraud the United States, seven wire-fraud counts, five transfer-of-funds-taken-by-fraud counts, six money-laundering counts, and three false-tax-return counts.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 27, 2012.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

John G. Rowland

  • Crime category: Campaign finance, false statements, fraud.
  • Crime: Two federal cases: one for conspiracy to defraud the United States, and another for falsification of records in a federal investigation, conspiracy, false statements, and illegal campaign contributions.
  • When convicted: Sentenced March 18, 2005, and March 18, 2015.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Charles Overton Scott

  • Crime category: Securities fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of Ohio of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud.
  • When convicted: Sentenced February 12, 2025.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Alexander Sittenfeld

  • Crime category: Corruption, bribery, extortion.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of Ohio of bribery concerning federally funded programs and attempted extortion under color of official right.
  • When convicted: Sentenced October 10, 2023.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Earl Lamont Smith

  • Crime category: Theft.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of Georgia of theft of government property.
  • When convicted: Sentenced March 24, 2010.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Imaad Shah Zuberi

  • Crime category: Foreign-agent offenses, tax offenses, campaign finance, obstruction.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Central District of California of Foreign Agents Registration Act violations, tax evasion, illegal foreign and conduit campaign contributions, and witness tampering or obstruction of justice.
  • When convicted: Sentenced February 18, 2021.
  • When pardoned: May 28, 2025.

Jeremy Young Hutchinson

  • Crime category: Bribery, tax offenses.
  • Crime: Federal convictions in Arkansas and Missouri for conspiracy to commit bribery, aiding and abetting the filing of a false income-tax return, conspiracy, and criminal forfeiture of property.
  • When convicted: Sentenced February 3, 2023, and April 23, 2023.
  • When pardoned: May 29, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

Late 2025 to June 2026

Changpeng Zhao

  • Crime category: Financial regulation, money laundering compliance.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Western District of Washington of failure to maintain an effective anti-money-laundering program.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 30, 2024.
  • When pardoned: October 21, 2025.
  • Official sources: Pardon listing: DOJ clemency grants.

November 7, 2025 election-related pardons

The DOJ clemency page separately records a non-individual presidential action titled “Granting Pardons for Certain Offenses Related to the 2020 Presidential Election,” plus seven named pardons entered the same day. The entries below still list the named pardons individually and add short crime categories based on the offense descriptions in the official listing.

Glen Casada

  • Crime category: Corruption, honest-services fraud, money laundering.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Middle District of Tennessee of conspiracy to defraud the United States, four honest-services wire-fraud counts, use of a fictitious name to carry out fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and eight money-laundering counts.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 23, 2025.
  • When pardoned: November 7, 2025.

Cade Cothren

  • Crime category: Corruption, honest-services fraud, money laundering.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Middle District of Tennessee of conspiracy to defraud the United States, six honest-services wire-fraud counts, use of a fictitious name to carry out unlawful business, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and seven money-laundering counts.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 16, 2025.
  • When pardoned: November 7, 2025.

Robert Henry Harshbarger, Jr.

  • Crime category: Health-care fraud, drug-regulation offenses.
  • Crime: Convicted in Kansas of introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce and health-care fraud.
  • When convicted: Sentenced November 4, 2013.
  • When pardoned: November 7, 2025.

Troy Lake

  • Crime category: Environmental offenses.
  • Crime: Convicted in Colorado of conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act.
  • When convicted: Sentenced December 5, 2024.
  • When pardoned: November 7, 2025.

Michael McMahon

  • Crime category: Foreign-agent offenses, stalking.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Eastern District of New York of acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notice to the Attorney General, conspiracy to engage in interstate stalking, and stalking.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 16, 2025.
  • When pardoned: November 7, 2025.

Darryl Strawberry, Sr.

  • Crime category: Tax offenses.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of income-tax evasion.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 24, 1995.
  • When pardoned: November 7, 2025.

Michelino Sunseri

  • Crime category: Public-land or park-rule violation.
  • Crime: Listed as leaving the Garnet Canyon Trail to use the Old Climber’s Trail in violation of the Superintendent’s 2024 Compendium in Wyoming.
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: November 7, 2025.

Joseph Lewis

  • Crime category: Securities fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and two securities-fraud counts.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 4, 2024.
  • When pardoned: November 12, 2025.

November 14, 2025 pardons

Suzanne Kaye

  • Crime category: Threats.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of Florida of interstate communications threats.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 21, 2023.
  • When pardoned: November 14, 2025.

Joseph Schwartz

  • Crime category: Tax offenses, labor-reporting offenses.
  • Crime: Convicted in New Jersey of willful failure to pay over employment taxes and failure to file the annual Form 5500 report.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 10, 2025.
  • When pardoned: November 14, 2025.

Daniel Edwin Wilson

  • Crime category: Firearms.
  • Crime: Convicted in the District of Columbia of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of an unregistered firearm.
  • When convicted: Sentenced August 28, 2024.
  • When pardoned: November 14, 2025.

Juan Orlando Hernandez

  • Crime category: Drugs, firearms.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, possessing machine guns and destructive devices in furtherance of that conspiracy, and conspiracy to use and carry those weapons.
  • When convicted: Sentenced June 26, 2024.
  • When pardoned: December 1, 2025.

December 2, 2025 pardons

Enrique Roberto Cuellar

  • Crime category: Bribery, corruption, money laundering.
  • Crime: Charged in the Southern District of Texas with conspiracy, bribery, honest-services wire fraud, and money-laundering offenses; the DOJ summary lists no sentencing date.
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: December 2, 2025.

Imelda Rios Cuellar

  • Crime category: Bribery, corruption, money laundering.
  • Crime: Charged in the Southern District of Texas with conspiracy, bribery, honest-services wire fraud, and money-laundering offenses; the DOJ summary lists no sentencing date.
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: December 2, 2025.

Timothy Joseph Leiweke

  • Crime category: Antitrust.
  • Crime: Charged in the Western District of Texas with conspiracy to restrain trade; the DOJ summary lists no sentencing date.
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: December 2, 2025.

Tina Peters

  • Crime category: Election-related.
  • Crime: The warrant description on the DOJ page is broad rather than charge-specific: “for those offenses she has or may have committed or taken part in related to election integrity and security during the period from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.”
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: December 5, 2025.

January 2026 pardons

Adriana Isabel Camberos

  • Crime category: Wire fraud, mail fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of California of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and seven wire-fraud counts and aiding-and-abetting counts.
  • When convicted: Sentenced June 26, 2025.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026.

Andres Enrique Camberos

  • Crime category: Wire fraud, mail fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of California of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and seven wire-fraud counts and aiding-and-abetting counts.
  • When convicted: Sentenced June 26, 2025.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026.

Danny Preston Conrad

  • Crime category: Embezzlement.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of Georgia of embezzling by a postal employee.
  • When convicted: Sentenced August 28, 1979.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026.

Arie Eric De Jong, III

  • Crime category: Conspiracy, fraud-related.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of California of conspiracy, with restitution over $2.25 million noted in the DOJ summary.
  • When convicted: Sentenced May 23, 2018.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026.

Russell John Flint, Jr.

  • Crime category: False documents.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of Illinois of aiding and abetting the making of false Selective Service registration certificates.
  • When convicted: Sentenced June 30, 1966.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026.

Julio M. Herrera Velutini

  • Crime category: Campaign finance, bribery, honest-services fraud.
  • Crime: The January 15 DOJ entry lists conspiracy, federal-program bribery, and honest-services wire fraud; the January 20 amended entry narrows the listed offense to contribution by a foreign national.
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026, amended January 20, 2026.

Kenneth Caprist Kelly

  • Crime category: Bank robbery, violent crime, firearms.
  • Crime: Convicted in Maryland of armed bank robbery, assault during armed bank robbery, and use of a firearm during a crime of violence.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 14, 1993.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026.

James Michael Klos

  • Crime category: Firearms.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Western District of Pennsylvania of possession of an unregistered firearm.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 18, 2006.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026.

David Levy

  • Crime category: Securities fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Eastern District of New York of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud.
  • When convicted: Sentenced January 10, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026.

Hollie Ann Nadel

  • Crime category: Money laundering, bank fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the District of Columbia of conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 9, 2024.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026.

Mark T. Rossini

  • Crime category: Campaign finance, bribery, honest-services fraud.
  • Crime: The January 15 DOJ entry lists conspiracy, federal-program bribery, and honest-services wire fraud; the January 20 amended entry lists contribution by a foreign national.
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026, amended January 20, 2026.

Wanda Vazquez Garced

  • Crime category: Campaign finance, bribery, honest-services fraud.
  • Crime: The January 15 DOJ entry lists conspiracy, federal-program bribery, and honest-services wire fraud; the January 20 amended entry lists contribution by a foreign national.
  • When convicted: No sentencing date listed in the DOJ summary table.
  • When pardoned: January 15, 2026, amended January 20, 2026.

Terren Scott Peizer

  • Crime category: Securities fraud, insider trading.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Central District of California of securities fraud and two insider-trading counts.
  • When convicted: Sentenced June 23, 2025.
  • When pardoned: January 16, 2026.

February 12, 2026 pardons

Travis Henry

  • Crime category: Drugs.
  • Crime: Convicted in Montana of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
  • When convicted: Sentenced July 15, 2009.
  • When pardoned: February 12, 2026.

Timothy S. Smith

  • Crime category: Tax offenses.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.
  • When convicted: Sentenced November 19, 1987.
  • When pardoned: February 12, 2026.

Nathaniel Newton, Jr.

  • Crime category: Drugs.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of Texas of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
  • When convicted: Sentenced August 15, 2002.
  • When pardoned: February 12, 2026.

Joseph Klecko

  • Crime category: Perjury.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania of perjury.
  • When convicted: Sentenced April 8, 1993.
  • When pardoned: February 12, 2026.

Jamal Lewis

  • Crime category: Drugs.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Northern District of Georgia of using a telephone to facilitate an attempted cocaine-possession-with-intent-to-distribute offense.
  • When convicted: Sentenced January 26, 2005.
  • When pardoned: February 12, 2026.

Elite Diesel Service, Inc.

  • Crime category: Environmental offenses.
  • Crime: Corporate conviction in Colorado for conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act.
  • When convicted: Sentenced December 5, 2024.
  • When pardoned: February 12, 2026.

Dr. Billy A. Cannon

  • Crime category: Conspiracy.
  • Crime: Convicted in Montana of conspiracy.
  • When convicted: The DOJ summary lists a sentence of 60 months and a $10,000 fine but does not show the sentencing date in the excerpt gathered here.
  • When pardoned: February 12, 2026.

Stephen E. Buyer

  • Crime category: Securities fraud.
  • Crime: Convicted in the Southern District of New York of four securities-fraud counts.
  • When convicted: Sentenced September 19, 2023.
  • When pardoned: June 4, 2026.