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(13,016 posts) Fri Jan 16, 2026, 03:37 PM 7 hrs ago

Adriana Camberos commits crime, Trump pardons, scoundrel commits crime again, Trump pardons again

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/trump-fraudster-pardon.html

Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.

The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.

The pardons from President Trump continue a trend in which he has used the unfettered presidential clemency power to reward allies and those who have paid his associates or donated to his political operatio

Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times
Kenneth P. VogelSusanne Craig
By Kenneth P. Vogel and Susanne Craig
Kenneth P. Vogel and Susanne Craig have investigated President Trump’s use of clemency to reward allies.

Jan. 16, 2026
Updated 3:18 p.m. ET
In 2021, a convicted fraudster named Adriana Camberos was freed from prison when President Trump commuted her sentence.

Rather than taking advantage of that second chance, prosecutors said, Ms. Camberos returned to crime. She and her brother were convicted in 2024 in an unrelated fraud.

This week, Mr. Trump pardoned both siblings, marking the second time Mr. Trump had opened the prison gates for Ms. Camberos.

Their pardons were among a handful of clemency grants quietly issued by Mr. Trump this week.

Among the other lucky recipients: a man whose daughter had given millions to a Trump-backed super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico and a former F.B.I. agent — all of whom had pleaded guilty in a political corruption case.