🔒 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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Apr
23
ProPublica · 2h ago
Are You Waiting for Opioid Settlement Money From Purdue, Mallinckrodt or Endo? Get in Touch.
OxyContin Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer are looking into how individual opioid victims have been compensated for addiction and other harm as a result of…
Apr
22
Just Security · 22h ago
The Fatal Flaws in Georgia’s National Police Modernization
Georgia’s police reform has long been held up as a rare success story in the former Soviet Union, a seemingly model case in which corruption was not merely reduced but…
Apr
22
Just Security · 23h ago
Early Edition: April 22, 2026
Signup 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 – CEASEFIRE …
Apr
22
Just Security · 1d 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…
Apr
21
Just Security · 2d ago
Early Edition: April 21, 2026
Signup 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 – CEASEFIRE …
Apr
20
ProPublica · 3d ago
Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family
President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders and a pardon in February 2025.  Andrew Harnik/Getty Images When Amanda Coulson was a child, she visited her mother at work…
Apr
16
ProPublica · 7d ago
3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town?
State and city officials break ground on the Cairo, Illinois, 3D-printed duplex project in August 2024. Outside a repair shop in rural southeastern Illinois, the parts of a massive 3D…
Apr
14
ProPublica · 9d ago
Colorado Marijuana Regulators Pledge Crackdown on Intoxicating Hemp
An employee holds a sample of cannabis in the process of being tested at Kaycha Labs, a Denver facility that can test for contamination and the presence of illegal synthetic…
Apr
14
ProPublica · 9d ago
Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled
National Guard members arrest a protester in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles in June 2025. Benjamin Hanson/Middle East Images/Getty Images The National Guard soldiers in desert…
Apr
13
ProPublica · 10d ago
Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
Animation by Matt Rota and Henrike Lendowski In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room at the Justice Department’s…
📈 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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