And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[KaraBulut]

Consider this: Trump has pardoned so many con artists, grifters, insurrectionists and scam artists, that he now is having to pardon the same criminals twice.

Trump pardons Florida fraudster after commuting her sentence during his first term

President’s pardon of Adriana Camberos comes amid a flurry of other pardons Trump issued on Thursday

www.theguardian.com

Trump pardons Florida fraudster after commuting her sentence during his first term

President’s pardon of Adriana Camberos comes amid a flurry of other pardons Trump issued on Thursday

Donald Trump has pardoned a woman who ended up imprisoned for fraud a second time after he afforded her clemency during his first presidency.

Adriana Camberos initially had a sentence commuted by Trump just before his first stint in the White House ended in 2021. That came after she was convicted as part of an effort to divert 5-Hour Energy drink bottles acquired for resale in Mexico and instead keep them in the US. Prosecutors said she and several co-conspirators attached counterfeit labels and filled the bottles with a phony liquid before selling them.

Then in 2024, she and her brother, Andres, were convicted in a separate case – involving lying to manufacturers to sell wholesale groceries and additional items at big discounts after pledging that they were meant for sale in Mexico or to prisoners or rehabilitation facilities. The siblings sold the products at higher prices to US distributors, prosecutors said.

After Trump commuted Camberos' first prison sentence, she returned to her life of crime and was convicted a second time in 2024 for bank and mail fraud through a scheme involving selling discounted goods in the US instead of Mexico.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/federal-jury-convicts-siblings-fraud-defendants-made-tens-millions-dollars-lying-0

Federal Jury Convicts Siblings of Fraud; Defendants Made Tens of Millions of Dollars from Lying to Manufacturers in Years-Long Scheme

Adriana Camberos (formerly Adriana Shayota) and Andres Camberos, sister and brother, were convicted by a federal jury of multiple fraud charges on October 25, 2024.

Their illegal scheme involved lying to manufacturers to sell wholesale groceries and other goods at steep discounts by promising the goods would be sold in Mexico, or to prisons or rehabilitation facilities. Instead, the defendants sold the products at higher prices to U.S. distributors, for the U.S. market. Wire fraud charges arose from the numerous wire transfers, as well as other interstate communications, the defendants made as they bought products from the manufacturers, transferred money among their own companies to facilitate the scheme, and then re-sold the products at higher prices to U.S. customers.

Following an 11-day trial, the jury found the defendants guilty of eight of 11 counts that went to the jury. Adriana and Andres Camberos were both found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and seven wire fraud counts, and not guilty of three mail fraud counts.

Any gue$$e$ on what earned this fraud$ter a $econd pardon? Camberos hired Stefan Passantino, a former deputy White House counsel, and Adam Katz, who represented Rudy Giuliani in election-related lawsuits.


In a single day last week, Trump issued 13 pardons and 8 commutations, including Camberos.

One of the pardons was for Terren S. Peizer, who was sentenced to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by supervised release for a term of 36 months with a $5,250,000 fine and a $300 special assessment, and forfeit more than $12.7 million in ill-gotten gains. Trump's pardon wipes away the financial portion of Peizer's penalties. Peizer, was the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ontrak and engaged in securities fraud and insider trading. Peizer hired Adam Katz, who represented Rudy Giuliani in election-related lawsuits.

United States v. Terren S. Peizer

www.justice.gov

Others:

• The father of a large donor to his super PAC.
• The former governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vázquez, who had pleaded guilty to a campaign finance violation. Her attorney was Chris Kise, who previously defended the president over criminal charges that he retained classified information after departing the White House in early 2021.
• Julio Herrera Velutini, Italian-Venezuelan billionaire businessman and founder of Britannia Financial Group, who was convicted in financial crimes in connection with Gov Vázquez' campaign. Herrera Velutini's daughter, Isabel Herrera, donated $2.5 million in December 2024 and $1 million last July to the pro-Trump political action committee MAGA Inc.
• Mark Rossini, former agent who pleaded guilty to five felony counts for criminally accessing records in an FBI database more than 40 times in 2007 and passing documents to the attorneys of Anthony Pellicano, who has a long list of convictions for racketeering, conspiracy, wiretapping, witness tampering, identity theft and destruction of evidence. Rossini was also involved in the Vázquez crimes.
• Jacob Deutsch, convicted in 2024 in connection with a $50 million mortgage fraud case involving Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as commercial lenders His sentence was commuted from a 5 year sentence to the 22 months in prison served. Adam Katz was also his attorney.

Several of these cases were handled by the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section which Pam Bondi eliminated after coming into office.

 

[rareboy]

Justice for sale...so corrupt it would shame a 3rd world junta dictator from the 70's.

 

[Alistair]

 

[rareboy]

They are whiney little pugs, aren't they?