"Photo: Alex Brandon/AP President Donald Trump signed off on several eyebrow-raising pardons this week, including a man whose daughter donated millions to his PAC and a convicted fraudster he had already freed from prison for a different fraud scheme during his first term, reported The New York Times' Kenneth Vogel and Susanne Craig."
"According to the Times, California resident Adriana Camberos started serving a 26-month sentence in December 2019 after she got caught trying to sell millions of counterfeit bottles of 5-hour Energy drinks. In early 2020, she hired an attorney with connections in Trump world. About a month later, her brother Andres Camberos donated $50,000 to Trump's re-election, his first ever to a federal Republican candidate. And then in the final days of Trump's first term in January 2021, he signed a clemency petition that released Adriana Camberos about a year early."
"She did not stay out of trouble for long, the Times reported, and her brother was also entangled in this criminal scheme: Soon after her commutation, she and her brother Andres embarked on a new fraud, federal prosecutors in California said. The siblings were charged last year in a complicated scheme: They bought consumer goods from manufacturers at a steep discount, purportedly to sell them in Mexico a legal practice. Instead, prosecutors said, the siblings sold the goods in the United States at higher prices and then committed bank and mail fraud to cover their tracks. Both Camberos siblings were convicted of that fraud. She was sentenced to prison, and he was sentenced to house arrest. They were ordered to repay millions of dollars in restitution to the busines"
President Donald Trump issued multiple pardons and commutations, including to individuals with ties to campaign donors and to a previously commuted convict who was later reconvicted. California resident Adriana Camberos received a clemency release in January 2021 after a 2019 sentence for selling counterfeit 5-hour Energy drinks. Her brother Andres donated $50,000 to Trump's re-election shortly after she hired an attorney with Trump connections. After the commutation, the siblings were accused of a new fraud scheme involving discounted consumer goods sold in the United States, followed by bank and mail fraud, convictions, prison and house arrest sentences, and multi-million dollar restitution orders.
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