🔒 Pardon Tracker

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Every pardon. Every dollar wiped. Every victim left holding the bag. The full record of who bought their way out of prison.

166
Individual Pardons
20
Corrupt Politicians Freed
$1.5B+
Criminal Debt Wiped
1,500
Jan 6th Rioters Freed
$2.0B+
Victim Restitution Erased
8x
More Pardons Than Biden
🍽 Hall of Shame
The most outrageous individual pardons documented
Trevor Milton
Securities Fraud
Defrauded investors of $660 million. Donated $1.8M to Trump campaign. Pardon wiped entire $660M restitution obligation.
$660M wiped $1.8M to Trump
Paul Walczak
Tax Evasion Millions
Evaded millions in taxes. His mother paid $1 million to dine with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and raised millions for MAGA candidates.
Millions wiped $1M Mar-a-Lago dinner
Henry Cuellar
Bribery (Indicted)
Sitting congressman indicted for bribery in 2024. Trial set for April 2026. Trump pardoned him in December 2025 before the trial.
Never faced trial Political ally
George Santos
Fraud, Identity Theft, Embezzlement
Convicted of filing fraudulent FEC reports, embezzling from donors, stealing identities, and lying to Congress.
Sentence erased MAGA loyalist
Rod Blagojevich
Political Corruption 14 Counts
Convicted of trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat. Sentence commuted first term, fully pardoned second term. Record cleared.
14-year sentence wiped TV show contestant
Adriana & Andres Camberos
Mail & Wire Fraud
Convicted of $48.8M fraud scheme. Court ordered $48,824,415.45 restitution each. Trump pardoned both victims will never be repaid.
$97.6M restitution erased Unknown connections
📰 Latest Pardon News
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Sep
13
Just Security · 1d ago
What’s Conspicuously Missing from the Government’s Supreme Court Reply Brief in the Mail Ballots Case
This essay is a supplement to the piece I published at Just Security on Tuesday regarding the ongoing litigation over whether the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) can enforce its new…
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Sep
11
Just Security · 3d ago
9/11 Then and Now: How It Shapes Us 25 Years On
On Sept. 11, 2001, the United States began a legal and institutional transformation that is still unfolding. We asked expert authors with deep personal and professional ties to the post-9/11…
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Sep
11
Just Security · 3d ago
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
This living, searchable resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration executive actions. If you think we are missing anything, you can email us at lte@justsecurity.org. The Tracker is part of…
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Sep
10
Just Security · 4d ago
Early Edition: September 10, 2026
Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR  Iran…
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Sep
10
ProPublica · 4d ago
The Rising Baseball Star, a Fatal Car Crash and the Fixer
Mercedes Garcia at the grave of her daughter Daniela Around 4 a.m. on Sept. 21, 2020, Luis David Saba arrived at a desolate stretch of highway along the southern coast…
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Sep
10
ProPublica · 4d ago
The Dominican Baseball Factory
Chapter 1 On an evening in late 2021, in a pristine baseball complex in central Santo Domingo, a baby-faced 14-year-old outfielder in athletic gear named Belfi Rivera huddled in front…
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Sep
9
Just Security · 5d ago
Ratko Mladić Is Dead, Yet Legions Mourn This “Butcher of Bosnia” and Celebrate His Crimes
The Sept. 7 funeral in Serbia’s capital Belgrade for Ratko Mladić, the imprisoned former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army – with thousands turning out to mourn his death —…
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Sep
9
ProPublica · 5d ago
I Wrote About His Wrongful Conviction. He Got Only 13 Years of Freedom Before Cancer Took His Life.
Fred Steese, outside the Nevada Supreme Court following his successful pardon hearing in 2017 David Calvert for ProPublica I’d like to tell you about Fred Steese, who died in August…
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Sep
4
ProPublica · 9d ago
Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
Photo collage by ProPublica. Source imagery by The Texas Tribune, with documents acquired by ProPublica. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways…
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Jul
1
CREW · 74d ago
Trump’s corruption is ruining 250th celebrations. We won’t let it ruin the next 250 years.
The post Trump’s corruption is ruining 250th celebrations. We won’t let it ruin the next <span class="dewidow">250 years.</span> appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
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📈 External Trackers
The organizations doing the deep work go deeper
CREW
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Tracks every corrupt politician pardon with full documentation.
citizensforethics.org →
TrumpCriminals.ca.gov
California Governor's official tracker of every convicted criminal pardoned. Updated as new pardons are issued.
gov.ca.gov/trumpcriminals →
CorruptionCounter
$2.9B+ in documented Trump corruption tracked in real time. Foreign bribes, pardons for sale, quid pro quo deals.
corruptioncounter.com →
Just Security
Legal analysis of pardons, executive power, and rule of law. The lawyers explaining what it all means.
justsecurity.org →
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