🔒 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
CREW · Just Security · ProPublica · refreshed every 3 hours
May
5
Just Security · 22h ago
From Diagnosis to Deterrence: The Emerging U.S. Response to Adversarial Distillation
In April, the White House and the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) took steps toward a government response to Chinese adversarial distillation of U.S. frontier AI models. On April…
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May
5
Just Security · 24h ago
Timeline of Boat Strikes and Related Actions
The following timeline chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. The timeline, which focuses primarily…
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May
5
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…
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May
5
ProPublica · 1d ago
Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.
Illustration by Stefano Summo for ProPublica To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons, it seemed at first like a typical scheme: associates of an inmate gang…
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May
4
Just Security · 2d ago
The U.S. Shouldn’t Lose Sight of the Real Terrorist Threats
In April, a suspected Iranian front organization claimed credit for several arson attacks on Jewish sites in London — just the latest in a spate of alleged Iranian plots around…
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May
4
Just Security · 2d ago
Hegseth’s Intellectual Purge is an Insult to His Officer Corps
When Secretary Pete Hegseth announced  in February that the Defense Department would sever ties with Harvard University, he framed the move as an act of ideological hygiene. Harvard, he suggested,…
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May
1
ProPublica · 5d ago
8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
Animation by Matt Rota and Henrike Lendowski When President Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — but just barely. If faced…
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Apr
29
ProPublica · 7d ago
Fear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders
Jasmir Urbina was scammed and then deported. Across the U.S., immigration scams have spiked amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort. Photo courtesy of Jasmir Urbina As an asylum-seeker living…
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Apr
28
ProPublica · 8d ago
The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A planned Trump administration regulation will penalize disabled young adults like Shy’tyra Burton, pictured with her father, Rondell, if they live with their parents. Caroline Gutman for ProPublica Even a…
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Apr
28
ProPublica · 8d ago
Inmates Have Died in the Care of Armor Health Companies. Jails Keep Contracting With Them Anyway.
Family photos of Brian Tracey kept by his sister, Lillian Scharf, who has tried for three years to get answers about how her brother died at a jail in St.…
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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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